Additional in game help has now been added (much requested feature).

Additional Variety in the Camera Angles is present as well now.

And here is a video of the game in action:

In Game Screens:

AI:

Fleets:

Research:

Ships:

Campaign Map:

Tips and Info:

Help:

What, all this effort, and no responses at all? Shocking 🙂

Well done Matt, looks impressive. I'll have to give it a try!

auryx

Thanks Auryx...hope you enjoy it.

Game looks great Matty77, any plans of having a lite free version so people can checkout the game before buying the full version?

Thanks sscadmin - yes there is a free lite version (you can see it on the google play page). The lite version has two players maximum, two fleets and 6 planets. Those are the main differences. There are no ads in either version. Link is this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lloydm.geoswordlite

There have been a number of enhancements (and the odd bug fix) since i last wrote here....

These include:

Offline quick battle mode.

Pilot chatter and sound effects added to battle (there was already music)

User can move camera in pause mode now (adds a bit of interactivity to the battle mode)

Shaders and explosions tweaked and improved.

Minor bug fixes (no show stoppers just some minor annoyances)

Current version is 1.26a for the lite version and 1.26 for the full version. 

Personally I love space battles and so I can sit there and watch battle after battle on my phone....quite nice. The load times are a little lengthy but its worth it.

Generally feedback has been positive and reviews/ratings on the play store mostly good.

Recent addition is engine flare from the fighters and bombers:

As developer of Star Dancer I'm more than happy to field questions either at my email address contactus@mattiesgames.com or here about the game.

The game has had predominantly good ratings and reviews (mostly 5 star from people from all over the world) although the actual numbers are quite low at this stage.  Unfortunately there was a single 1 star rating with no review so I was unable to address whatever may have been that user's concerns.  However, as stated - the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive for the game. 

It is quite different from most games and that may be a little disconcerting at first but if you enjoy watching action packed space battles on your hand held device (like I do) then it's perfect for a quick battle on the bus as you watch the ships blast each other to smithereens in space.

I do have a little more work to do on the sound effects since the sound effects are inconsistent across devices - on some of them the volume is too low for the pilot chatter. I may have to look into how to address this. As well as loading times - they can be long in complex battles.

The actual graphics scale with the power of the device. Low spec devices use lower resolution textures and a less detailed background nebula to ensure a high frame rate.  Although - on extremely low spec devices it is difficult to make it run smoothly (by really low spec I mean those ultra cheap 7" tablets you find in department stores)

Nice series of updates Matt.

And remember you will always have the satisfaction of having created it.