X-Bomber the Game

Dan H passed me along some nice AI images from Shane Perry.
Shane is an amazing illustrator and it would be great to see some new drawings from him.

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Here is a collection of my friend; Shane Perry's illustrations, diagrams and CGI images relating to his Star Fleet continuation; 
	The Revenge of Makara

Shane also produced the cover images for the fan stories shown here:
	Star Fleet > Fan Stories

Displayed with kind permission.

2026.09.16

v0.84n - Objectives

In Progress
 - Level 16: Fortress train 50%

Done
 - X-Fighter multiplayer
	Shield bubble logic improved
 - Fixed bug affecting supporting player ship destruction
 - Player 2 (Sylph) control assignment glitch fixed
 - Sylph missile reloading fixed - now not possible via X-Impulse power-up
 - X-Bomber Prototype pulse neck laser improved
	(now looks as though it comes from underneath the ship)
 - Mouse selection glitch fixed on main menu mission selector
 - High score upload fixed on server end
 - L16 - Solar energy nets release debris when taking damage.

To-do
 - Improve assault tractor logic ...
 - L16 - Grey heavy bombers with hoverfans and Minelayers
 - Megacarriers 
	Implement green variant
	Re-instate neutralaser weapon
	Match deployed fighters to carrier
 - L16 Boss - Death-X Transforming Type
	Progress animations and weapons
 - Various escape pod types with rotation
 - Dai-X underwater backpack

2026.09.16

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Dan H was kind enough to send me some AI images done by Phil Base, based on the UK Look-In comic.
I've added these to the appropriate folder on the site and I made a few adjustments where the program hadn't delivered the expected result with Makara's alien implant while Dan got the eye looking at the viewer.

You can get a nice glow effect in photoshop if you duplicate a layer, set the duplicate to additive blend or similar, and give it a gaussian blur. I thought a 10-pixel radius looked about right.

So, a team effort all-round by Phil, Dan, Mike Noble and others.

2026.09.12

Fan DVD Release - Screenshots - Disc 2

Here we go ...

2026.09.11

Autographed DVD Set

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I have some nice new images from David Cook, thanks to Dan at Star Fleet Facebook, of a DVD set signed by Garrick Hagon and Liza Ross

Updates have also been made to the Tatsuhiro Akama and Dacotu folders and a new Lamia illustration by matsuurama has been added to Fan Artworks.

2026.09.09

Solder in the Space - 'ai' Cover

Well, I came across it and that means you have to deal with it as well...
This is actually quite a tuneful cover of the X Bomber theme song, which is in some ways an improvement on the original:
(AI cover) X Bomber "Soldier in the space" by Asatanko

The video is in part, a chamber of artificially-generated horrors, although, I will say that the X-Bomber that appears at 0:23 seconds and elsewhere in the video, would be a nice concept for an 'X-Bomber refit', following the events of the show.

Were it not for that, I think it would've been much better to have shown some actual clips from the show.

In other news, the Nitter project on github has been resumed and there are now 40+ local instances available.

2026.09.07

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Fan-Made DVD Screenshots - Disc 1

I said that there would be screenshots and lo-and-behold, there are.
I will put up disc 2 at some point next week.

2026.09.04

Special Delivery

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I got an amazing delivery today.
We've been enjoying watching this this evening, and the colour, constrast and detail are really superb on this fan-produced DVD set.

For me, this is the proper remaster that we should've had back in the day in 2009, rather than just an upscale.

Thanks very much to cpltony16 and everyone else that I know worked hard on this special project.

I will get some better photos and I think I'll set Xilisoft away doing some screengrabs.
You can never have too many images from the show on a site like this.

2026.09.03

More about Nitter

Somebody must have noticed my post about Nitter and sent me a very kind email to let me know that Nitter development is alive and well, and giving me some good resources about available instances and forks of the project available on Codeberg.org.

There are over 10 working instances including some Onion (Tor) ones. RSS feeds are available on several of them too.

This will be very handy for researching what goes on over twitter in Japan and other places about Star Fleet without me needing an actual twitter account.

Let me know if you're interested in more info, and I'll be sure to send it your way.

On another note, I saw that Poast, which was the Nitter instance that I used, was attacked shortly after the takedown letters were issued by twitter.
Poast was the only instance to mount a legal defence against the demand.
When the attackers (who, I think we can safely assume, were put up to it by twitter) couldn't do anything to affect Poast's Nitter instance, they went after their site itself and deleted everything that they could there.

I would say that, if you have a twitter account, it may be time to ditch it.
It could have been this site or any other that was erased if it'd been doing anything by chance that got in their way.

2026.09.03

2002 Japanese Laserdiscs

As a small public announcement,
If anyone would like to add a set of the Japanese laserdiscs of the show, there is a set that looks to be in very good condition (most of the discs are apparently still sealed) going for really not a lot of money on FromJAPAN

2026.09.02