INTRODUCING THE STARFIGHTER VIDEO GAME

WHAT IS THE STARFIGHTER?

1. THE STARFIGHTER is a thrilling, fast, big, very 3D, realistic, Full HD, modern and real-time 3D graphics combat arcade flight simulator in which you must be a heroic extra-terrestrial starfighter pilot, fly the two-seater Griffin Starfighter Mk I or Mk II with a Radar-Intercept Officer and wipe out the evil robot extra-terrestrial King Nimrod, his massive military fleet and restore peace to the universe. King Nimrod's fleet consists of spaceships, buildings, attack helicopters, attack submarines, frigates, boats, rocket launcher equipped armored buggies, combat drones, aviation containers, etc.

2. THE STARFIGHTER video game is 2 games in 1-- it is a 3D combat flight simulator and a 3D space flight (astronautics) simulator.

3. THE STARFIGHTER is a kids' and college students' game.

4, You have a choice of choosing Griffin Starfighter Mk I or Griffin Starfighter Mk II with 2 different missiles to fly in the game. 

THE ORIGINAL SPACE STORY IN THE GAME:

You are Paladin, a heroic starfighter pilot who flies the legendary Griffin Starfighter. You are from a fictitious exoplanet called The Hive which is located light-years away from the Earth. The evil King Nimrod and his forces from an undisclosed exoplanet in a galaxy somewhere in the universe are conquering the universe. The leader of The Hive, Queen Crusher, opposes King Nimrod. You and your Radar-Intercept Officer code named Wizard now have to fly in the Griffin Starfighter and restore peace in the universe by vanquishing King Nimrod, all of his forces and all of his assets wherever they may be. The despicable King Nimrod and his forces are mechanical extra-terrestrial (E.T.) lifeforms known as the Raptorbots, while you (Paladin), Wizard and Queen Crusher are insectlike extra-terrestrial (E.T.) lifeforms known as the Hivians.

THE GRIFFIN STARFIGHTER SPECIFICATIONS:

The Griffin Starfighter Mk I is a sleek gold colored near-mirror surface finish two-seater in tandem, twin-tail, single rocket engine, extra-terrestrial multirole starfighter with control-canards, and double-delta wings. The Griffin Starfighter Mk II is a variant spacecraft colored orange, and having light cyan color at the wingtips. The laser cannons  of the Griffin Starfighter Mk II are located underwing and closer to the centerline of spacecraft. The Mk II variant is canardless, and is equipped with the Lynx Missiles. The Mk II variant is faster than the Griffin Starfighter Mk I, and the Lynx Missiles are faster and more lethal than Jaguar Missiles. The Griffin Starfighters can indeed glide in Earth's atmosphere. During spaceflight, the Griffin Starfighters use an Attitude Determination & Control System (ADCS) to change the attitude of the spacecraft. The Griffin Starfighters are equipped with a spaceworthy Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) dual axis multi-beam technology radar which gives its pilot instant situational awareness of the battlespace. The Griffin Starfighters also have Regenerating Shields and a Turbo Speed Thrust Level rocket motors. The Griffin Starfighters' canopies are an all-plastic design. The angled airframe of the Griffin Starfighters also have radar stealth (low observable) characteristics, like the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor and the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, to deflect radar signals. The design of the Griffin Starfighters is such that it has a low radar signature. The Griffin Starfighter Mk I is equipped with wingtip mounted High Energy Laser Cannons directed-energy weapon and the Jaguar Fire-And-Forget Missiles. The current Griffin Starfighter models have no flare and chaff dispensers.

THE FIRE-AND-FORGET MISSILES OF THE GRIFFIN STARFIGHTER:

The Griffin Starfighter's Fire-And-Forget Missiles are beyond-visual-range missiles. The Jaguar Missiles (used only in the Griffin Starfighter Mk I spacecraft) have warheads that produce more than 300 pounds penetrating blast fragmentation explosive force.

The Lynx Missiles have warheads that produce more than 500 pounds penetrating blast fragmentation explosive force.  The Lynx Missiles fly faster than the Jaguar Missiles. Both the Jaguar and Lynx Missiles' engines are solid rocket motors. The fuze type of both missiles is impact fuze.

KEY FEATURES:

· There are 2 Griffin Starfighters equipped with 2 different missiles (the Mk I variant and Mk II variant) available for you to choose from in the game. You are not limited to play only one starfighter in the game. 

· There are 11 massive combat missions for you to fly so that you will never be bored to play the game over and over again.

· THE STARFIGHTER video game is a Full HD video game. It has crisp, real-time 3D graphics and there is a lot of detail in the 3D graphics.

· You can replay a mission whenever you want to.

· There are enemy waves in the game; there is a climactic battle at the end between the villain, King Nimrod, and the hero, Paladin. 

· The space combat in THE STARFIGHTER is visually stunning like in the Star Trek: Picard science fiction/drama TV series.

· THE STARFIGHTER is a smoothe, very pretty, highly realistic and real-time 3D combat arcade game. Being an Epic Games's Unreal Engine 4 made game, you get to fly a winged spaceship through photorealistic skies with moving clouds and be in environments that have winds when you are fighting on Earth. When you are in space you get to fly in a dusty spaceflight environment, fly under light-emitting stars, fly close to 3D revolving planets, large spaceships and 3D orbiting satellites.

- Rendering effects such as emissive color, translucency, etc. are used all throughout the game. There are other unique real-time 3D visual effects/post-process effects used in the game such as explosion flashes, smoke plumes, sparks, lens flare effect, transparent flames, fog, camera shake, real-time reflections, exposure, etc. Experience 3D explosions, 3D smoke, 3D sparks, 3D flying missiles and 3D lasers in real-time in THE STARFIGHTER video game.

- Moreover, real top quality National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) satellite images of the planets in the Solar System were used to make this game.

- The jet exhaust of the Griffin Starfighter is like the real life jet exhaust of a jet fighter.

- THE STARFIGHTER game correctly simulates the missile firing of an U.S. Air Force Thunderbolt II attack aircraft.

THE STARFIGHTER game correctly simulates the terrain and landscape at Stonehenge in England, the United Kingdom and at a lake, light forest and hills location on Earth.

· Some of the enemies in this video game are Artificial Intelligence (AI) controlled enemies. Therefore, you will have to fly defensively all throughout this game to avoid enemy laser fire and enemy Hydra 70 surface-to-air laser guided missile attacks.

· You can change camera views in this action video game. You can look backwards (Check Your Six), have a Zoom-In camera view and have the Normal (Tail-To-Nose Cone) camera view.

· You can do Stationkeeping (keep your spacecraft in the same orbit as the target spacecraft) like Astronaut Neil Armstrong, chase enemy spaceships that are orbiting planets in deep space and then wipe them out.

· You can fly the Griffin Starfighter in circles around the planets in this video game. Experience what it's like to fly in a spaceship in the eclipse of a planet and what it's like to fly in a spaceship in the Sun.

· You can perform an aileron roll (spinning maneuver), like Padawan Learner Anakin Skywalker does in the Hollywood movie Star Wars: Episode 1-- The Phantom Menace.

· This video game is thrilling, fast and it has non-stop action.

· THE STARFIGHTER has a low FPS (frames per second). The action in the game is smoothe.

· THE STARFIGHTER has an Autolevel Feature which allows you to fly level with the local horizon. This feature is useful when you are flying in space.

· Every time you play THE STARFIGHTER, it will be slightly different from the other times you play THE STARFIGHTER.

· No game manual is necessary to play THE STARFIGHTER because all of the important information is put inside of the game. For example, THE STARFIGHTER has an Enemy Designation Guide which allows you to quickly know your enemy before you fly the Griffin Starfighter.

· As Paladin the heroic starfighter pilot, you get to fly (soar in) an aeroplane looking spaceship in the Earth's atmosphere and also in outer space.

· You can fly the Griffin Starfighter using a gamepad.

· There are clues for you to play this game, and they are found in the Steam Guides in the Community Hub.

· The laser fire of the Griffin Starfighters in THE STARFIGHTER is like the real-life firing of the Rheinmetall Lynx KF41 infantry fighting vehicle.

· THE STARFIGHTER has all original weapons systems design (spaceship design).

· THE STARFIGHTER is an immersive game, with cinema quality sound effects and tunes, 3D sound, rich sound experience, etc. Audio digital signal processing (DSP), audio effects and audio modifiers were used in THE STARFIGHTER. This gives you a first-rate quasi-VR experience.

· THE STARFIGHTER has a pause button like a highend Sony PlayStation 5 game so that you can pause the game while you are playing.

· THE STARFIGHTER has instructions made available in the Main Menu so that you know which gamepad button, keys, etc. to press to play the game successfully.

MORE ABOUT THE STARFIGHTER VIDEO GAME:

This video game is a Linked Missions Action Game. The player must complete each combat mission before advancing to the next one. In each mission the player must destroy all enemy targets. This game has a non-linear option, which means you can start at any of the 11 missions and you don't have to start at first mission (the Stonehenge Mission).

You have a choice to fly 2 different Griffin Starfighters complete with different missiles.

This video game is like Epyx's Blue Lightning for the Atari Lynx, Cinemaware's Wings, Cinemaware's Rocket Ranger, Nintendo's Star Fox, LucasArts's Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, LucasArts's Star Wars: Starfighter, LucasArts's Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, LucasArts's Star Wars: X-Wing, Electronic Arts's Star Wars Battlefront II, Star Fighter for the Sony PlayStation 1 (PS1), Namco's Air Combat and Sega's After Burner: Climax.

The storyline in THE STARFIGHTER is similar to the storyline in the Robotech: Macross space opera animated television series created by Carl Macek for Harmony Gold USA and in the Starcom: The U.S. Space Force cartoon series which was produced by DIC Animation City.

One similarity between the Star Trek: Picard TV series and THE STARFIGHTER video game is that there is a mission in THE STARFIGHTER in which you (Paladin) fly to Jupiter in the Solar System.

Some elements in THE STARFIGHTER game are the same as in:-

a. the American TV series Space: Above And Beyond-- such as wormholes, extra-terrestrials & exoplanets

b. Battlestar Galactica-- such as robot enemies & space superiority starfighters

c. Robotech: Macross animation-- such as aeroplane looking spacecraft, large enemy spaceships & militaristic alien antagonists

Furthermore, this video game was designed and developed based on the actual Saab JAS 39 Gripen E light single-engine multirole jet fighter, the Saab JAS 39 Gripen E-simulator in the Swedish Air Force Museum (Flygvapenmuseum) in Malmen Airbase in Malmslätt in Sweden.

Fly in a spaceship to the prehistoric monument Stonehenge in England in the United Kingdom on Earth, a rampart fortified airport on Earth, a combat helicopters guarded SatCom Antennas hills area on Earth, a battleships and submarine defended island on Earth, majestic Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury the fictitious exoplanet known as The Hive, beautiful Neptune and a nearby cigar-shaped asteroid known as 'Oumuamua in this exciting, and very fun winged rocket/aeroplane video game.

THE STARFIGHTER has arcade video game fun in the vein of Blue Lightning, Gates of Zendocon and Toki for the Atari Lynx platform, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the Commodore International Amiga 500 platform, LucasArts's Star Wars: Rogue Squadron on the Nintendo 64 home video game console.

THE STARFIGHTER is a Malaysian Malay made video game.

THE STARFIGHTER is a war game. The battles in this video game are intense, Star Warslike and Star Treklike. The aerial combat in THE STARFIGHTER is like in the movies Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick.

This video game was created in more than 1 year's time-- it took more than a year in total to make this arcade game.

The gunsight or crosshairs in THE STARFIGHTER does not move. This is unlike Electronic Arts's Star Wars: Battlefront II and Sega's After Burner: Climax.

PLAYING THE GAME:

Game Controllers:

You can use a Wireless/Wired XBox Gamepad/XBox-compatible Gamepad and Mouse & Keyboard to play THE STARFIGHTER.

For Gamepad Control:

Use the Left Thumbstick/Gamepad D-Pad to change the flight direction of the Griffin Starfighter.

Use the Right Thumbstick to speed up or slow down the Griffin Starfighter.

Pressing the Left Shoulder fires the Laser Cannons.

Pressing the Right Shoulder launches the Missiles.

Pressing the X-Button changes the view to Looking Backwards View. 

Pressing the Y-Button changes the view to Zoom View. 

Pressing the B-Button changes the view to Normal View. 

Pressing the A-Button pauses the game.

For Mouse & Keyboard Control:

To fly the Griffin Starfighter, you must move your Mouse to change the pitch, roll and yaw angles of the spaceship, and press the Spacebar/Control keys on your keyboard to speed up or slow down the spaceship.

You can have the normal view by pressing the 3 key on your keyboard.

You can zoom in to a target by pressing the 2 key on your keyboard. This features helps in the shooting of small targets.

You can look backwards of the Griffin Starfighter by pressing the 1 key on your keyboard. This feature helps you make a judgement if you have destroyed a target that you have flown by or you haven't.

You can pause the game while playing the game by pressing the P key on your keyboard. You can quit the game by clicking on the Quit button with your mouse once you have paused the game.

To shoot the Griffin Starfighter's laser cannons, press the Left Mouse Button.

To launch missiles, press the Right Mouse Button.

In this video game, you must be flying all the time. If you have stopped flying by crashing into an object (such as the ground), you must uncrash yourself so that you are flying again.

You are given 3 lives for each combat mission, and unlimited fire-and-forget missiles. Moreover, there are no power-ups in this video game because the Griffin Starfighter has regenerating shields.

From the Main Menu, begin by selecting the Select Starfighter button. At the Select Starfighter Sub-menu, choose one of the 2 Griffin Starfighters available-- the Mk I or Mk II. Then, at the Missions Sub-menu, choose a combat mission to fly. 

At the start of each combat mission, you will be given orders from the Command Center and you will also be escorted by a Griffin Starfighter Mk II. 

You must destroy King Nimrod, his Runway 34, blast pad, hangars, large parabolic satellite communications (SatCom) antennas, attack helicopters, submarines, frigates, boats, water reservoirs, Nimrod Armada Fighters, gigantic Spacecraft Carriers, large Transport Spaceships, gigantic Nimrod Cruisers, brick walls, lightpoles, huge Fletcher Laser-Guided Rocket (LGR) Launcher equipped Armored Buggies, Nimrod unmanned combat aerial systems (NImrod UCAS's), taxibots, large aviation containers, air traffic control tower with weather radar, buildings, etc.

There are lots of enemies both combatant and non-combatant for you to shoot at in this game.

You must also avoid shooting friendly sensors-equipped satellites that are orbiting the planets in LEO.

At the end of each combat mission, except for the Jupiter mission, you are required to fly through a Portal. You have to cause the Portal to materialize in each combat mission. The Portal will materialize when you destroy all enemies and all man-made structures (constructs) in each mission. You will be transported to another location in the universe when you fly the Griffin Starfighter into a Portal. The Portals are Wormholes that transport the Griffin Starfighter and its occupants Astronomical Units (AU's) or megaparsecs from its current position in deep space. You must fly into the Portal to advance to the next stage/mission in the game.

Onscreen, you will find the Griffin Starfighter's Velocity Indicator, Horizon Bar, Pitch Ladder, Heading, Direction Indicator, Vertical Speed, Regenerating Shields Indicator, Gunsight, Enemy/Friendly Targeting Indicator, Current Mission Display, Starfighter Pilot Information Display, Your Score and the Lives Left. This is the Helmet-Mounted Display (HMD) or HUD of the starfighter.

If you are able to vanquish King Nimrod and his forces, you and Wizard will be summoned by Queen Crusher to her Royal Palace on The Hive planet. There Queen Crusher will reward you and Wizard with medals and knighthoods.

To pilot the Griffin Starfighter, you need to have marksmanship skills and good hand-eye coordination. You must aim and then shoot at all enemy targets in the battlespace. Some of the enemies in this game are petite.

In the video game, you can change the attitude of the Griffin Starfighters remotely in the, "3D Viewing Rooms."

In THE STARFIGHTER video game, you have to be accurate in your aiming of the Griffin Starighter's laser cannons and missiles. If not, the onscreen targets will not be destroyed. Remember that you are always moving in this video game. Due to the fact that you are always moving during missions, THE STARFIGHTER has a video game difficulty level. It is harder to shoot at a target while you are moving than shooting at a target while you are standing still.

Only two outcomes are possible in THE STARFIGHTER game-- either you defeat the evil King Nimrod and his forces or you are destroyed by King Nimrod and his forces.

STRATEGY:

· Put your crosshairs or gunsight on the enemy and fire at will.

· Configure your starfighter's velocity setting and get the aerial attack angle to pulverize your adversary in mid-air.

· Come up with tactics to win every combat mission. There are plenty of missions in the game. 

· Destroy all enemies and all man-made structures (constructs) in the Earth-- The Airport combat mission.

· In all space missions, search and destroy all enemies in the mission.

STATS:

· Approximate Period To Complete All Missions: About 1 hour

· Approximate Period To Complete 1 Mission: Approximately 6 minutes each

DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A HEROIC EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL STARFIGHTER PILOT?