craig-stars

craig-stars

An open-source, web based Stars! clone.

About

Stars! is an interstellar, turn based strategy game and a member of the 4X genre (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate). The original Stars! game was released as shareware in 1995 by Jeff Johnson and Jeff McBride with help from Jeffrey Krauss (collectively known as the Jeffs), with a retail version published in 1997. craig-stars attempts to remain as close to the original as possible in both UI and gameplay.[^1]

The Stars! wiki and Home World Forum are both great places for learning about Stars! gameplay. The wiki's strategy guide is a good starting point for new players to learn the basics, and the active Stars! discord server is a great place to ask questions and start/join new multiplayer games. (For developers & contributors, there is also a channel for stars clone discussion.)

[^1]: A non-exhaustive list of intentional differences can be found here.

Development/Contributing

Contributions of any form are welcome, even non-code ones such as bug reports & feature requests. If you have any issues to report or cool ideas to suggest, open an Issue report on the GitHub repository.

For code contributions, all you need to get started is a good code editor (like Visual Studio Code - available to download or use online), as well as a GitHub account.

Meanwhile, for those who are more technically inclined and want to test out changes themself before committing, consider running a local instance of craig-stars for development. See the development page for more info.

Architecture

For detailed information about craig-stars architecture, check out the architecture page.