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The Star Fleet games are a series of futuristic turn-based strategy games set in a universe similar to Star Trek, all developed by the same core design team around Trevor C. Sorensen starting first in 1983. In 1998, Brett Keeton contacted Trevor Sorensen with the idea of Star Fleet 1 being ported to Windows, vastly improved in graphics and sound, and sold as shareware. While doing the coding work on this project, the team realized that the 1983 game was too shallow for the modern game market, and thus decided to re-activate the old Starfleet X code and improve upon this code base. Starfleet Deluxe was born. In September 2002, however, the development saw a major drawback when lead programmer Brett Keeton committed suicide at the age of 38, and the rest of the team wasn't able to retrieve the beta version of Starfleet Deluxe from his hard drive. The game stands unfinished, but the latest version can be downloaded and played. |
