Flight Commander 1.5 Released

• Players can control turrets on their fighters, including a new turret hud.
• Mouse support
• Captions support
• Conversations with characters between missions
• Moving doors/movies and sound effects in the gameflow
• Multiple comms/insults for more variety
• Nav points have names

The first screenshot shows the new turret targeting HUD. Flight Commander comes with a graphical mission editor and uses standard formats for graphics and sound. If you're looking to use the engine to create your own game, version 1.5 offers these new features:

• Save variables between missions
• 6 new scripting commands available during combat.
• Fully customize all the music easily
• Briefings:
  • Fully customizeable, scriptable briefings. Add voice actors, move ships, adjust timing.
  • Navs on briefings can have labels.
  • A new briefing creation tutorial.
  • 27 new scripting commands are available for briefing editing
• Gameflow:
  • Fully scriptable, add conversation with characters, multiple rooms
  • play custom movies whenever you want
  • change movies based on the outcome of the mission
  • Move the briefing camera whever you want.
  • 6 scripting commands.
  • Custom fonts colors in the gameflow

Second Call For Prize Winners

CIC Birthday Party prize winners who submitted their addresses should have gotten a confirmation email from us by now. If you haven't seen one, your email probably got caught in a spam filter and you should resend it or drop by IRC. With most of the CIC Staff out adventuring together for the next couple weeks, a number of these packages won't ship until later September. Here's a list of the prizes and winners again.

Birthday Prizes
• CIC Glass - Wedge, Sycrus
• CIC Playing Cards - Ironduke, Wedge
• CIC Polo Shirt (submit size) - TheFraix
• TCS Eisen T-Shirt (submit size) - Justice, Paragon, Priest
• TCS Eisen Hat - Taser, Wedge, Powell99
• Confed Replica Patch - Blitz, ventsetti, HCl
• WC2 Game - BobMcDob, Justice
• WC4 DVD - LeHah, Vinman
• WC CCG Pack - ZFGokuSSJ1
• WC Novel (submit preferences) - Jetlag, matthew954
• WC Movie DVD - Frogzilla
• WC Movie Action Figures (submit preferences) - No Regret, Blonde
• WC Movie Poster - Shades
• WC Movie Longsleeve T - Jetlag
• XBox Live 1 Year Subscription - Jetlag
• XBox Live 1600 Point Cards - Justice, Jetlag
• XBox Smack Talk Device - Dundradal
• Nasa Sticker Set (donated by EddieB) - Dyret
• Star*Soldier Print - Mekt-Hakkikt, Vinman, AD, Shades

Arena Xbox Contest Prizes
• XBox 360 Elite - NinjaLA
• CIC Polo, Playing Card, Glass & Star*Soldier - IronDuke
• TCS Eisen Hat & Star*Soldier - Blitz
• WCM Soundtrack & Star*Soldier - Pedro
• CIC Glass & Star*Soldier - SabreAce
• Star*Soldier - Paragon
• Star*Soldier - matthew954