![]() |
||||||||||||||
![]() |
Mar 17, 2025 - [DSC] DISCOVERY Season 5 Screencaps: "Lagrange Point" Mar 16, 2025 - [HOME] WeeklyTrek: STRANGE NEW WORLDS Starts Season 4 Filming Mar 15, 2025 - [TOS] TOS Season 1 Screencaps: Remastered Visual Effects Mar 14, 2025 - [TOS] Master Replicas Recreates Original STAR TREK Coffee Cup Mar 14, 2025 - [HOME] Fundraiser Success - Thanks to You! Mar 14, 2025 - [DS9] "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" Episode Trailers  Season 7 Mar 13, 2025 - [PRO] PRODIGY 213 Blu-ray Screencaps: "Cracked Mirror" Mar 13, 2025 - [PRO] PRODIGY 212 Blu-ray Screencaps: "A Tribble Called Quest" Mar 11, 2025 - [DS9] CherryTree Debuts DS9-Inspired Raktajino Mug Replica Mar 09, 2025 - [HOME] REVIEW: Fanhome's Stargazer and Farragut Models, Plus: Subscriptions Reopen March 10! Mar 08, 2025 - [LOW] LOWER DECKS S4 Screencaps: "Caves" Mar 08, 2025 - [DSC] DISCOVERY Season 5 Screencaps: "Labryinths" Mar 07, 2025 - [DS9] "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" Episode Trailers  'Final Chapter' Mar 06, 2025 - [SNW] STRANGE NEW WORLDS Season 3 Character Portraits Arrive! Mar 05, 2025 - [HOME] INTERVIEW: Brian Volk-Weiss on Nacelle's New TREK Action Figures Mar 04, 2025 - [HOME] Nacelle Launches Preorders for New STAR TREK Action Figures Mar 04, 2025 - [HOME] 2025 TrekCore Fundraiser Begins Mar 03, 2025 - [SNW] STRANGE NEW WORLDS Begins Production on Season 4 Mar 03, 2025 - [MOV] STAR TREK: SECTION 31 Arrives on 4K and Blu-ray This April Mar 03, 2025 - [DS9] "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" Episode Trailers  Season 6 Mar 01, 2025 - [HOME] The KHAN Audio Drama Lives, Plus: New TREK Ship Models & Books Feb 26, 2025 - [HOME] Fanhome Reveals Next TREK Starships, Including USS Dauntless Feb 25, 2025 - [PRO] PRODIGY S2 Screencaps: "The Last Flight of the Protostar, Part 1" Feb 25, 2025 - [PRO] PRODIGY S2 Screencaps: "The Last Flight of the Protostar, Part 2" Feb 22, 2025 - [DS9] "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" Episode Trailers  Season 5 Feb 22, 2025 - [HOME] WeeklyTrek: STARFLEET ACADEMY Wraps Season 1 Production Feb 17, 2025 - [LOW] LOWER DECKS S4 Screencaps: "A Few Badgeys More" Feb 17, 2025 - [DSC] DISCOVERY Season 5 Screencaps: "Erigah" Feb 16, 2025 - [HOME] Interview: Ben Robinson on Master Replica's New TREK Figures Feb 14, 2025 - [PRO] PRODIGY Season 2 Screencaps: "The Devourer of All Things, Part 1" |
![]() |
||||||||||||
![]() |
||||||||||||||
![]() |
Star Trek The Neutral Zone: Description |
![]() |
||||||||||||
![]() |
||||||||||||||
|
![]() |
TREKCORE > GAMING > STAR TREK THE NEUTRAL ZONE > Description Courtesy of Kresimir Spes.
This is a small deathmatch arcade game set in the TNG/DS9 universe. You play with a starship of your choice on a battlefield which is fixed on the size of your screen. You can choose from 15 different ship models, 8 backgrounds to play on, and 10 different powerups to pick up. Each ship has a forward phaser and two torpedoes. The goal is to destroy a certain amount of ships to win. You can play in single player with smart bots or against a human oponent who can play on the same keyboard as you or in multiplayer over LAN and direct IP connection. Additionally, you can adjust the game speed up to 300% and play with bots if you think you can't play against a worthy foe :)
I started development on this project when I was 16, in the second year of high-school. I really didn't intend to make an actual game of it though. I badly needed some network programming experience in order to make the multiplayer of "The Kings of the Dark Age". So in order to turn this task into something more interesting, I borrowed a few starship images from Activision's "Star Trek: Bridge Commander", dug up a few background images and put it all together. Below are a few images of how it was in the beginning:
The breaking point was when I took the "game" to school and showed it to my friends. They really liked it and encouraged me to continue developing the game. Over the next few months I slowly worked on the project and added the much needed shields and fixed a whole bunch of bugs. Geez, what stupid mistakes I made back then! :) Over time I really got to like the project, so I spent all my free time developing the game. And so, version 1.0 was born. I was so proud of it! Version 1.0 got published in several Croatian computer magazines, which made me reeealy happy! And once again it was the players who encouraged me to continue developing. Heh, version 1.0 didn't even have bots! So in February 2004, version 2.0 was finished and it had the folowing crucial features:
And that's when it all ended. There was nothing I could do to make the game better, so starting in February of 2004 I started designing the sequel, TNZ2! Hundreds of papers were used and dozens of pencils until I finally made the game design I wanted. So now, October 2004, I'm working on TNZ2 which will most likely be a freeware game. You can read all about it and see the artwork and screenshots or even download the game, if I've finished it by now, from: https://tnz2.cateia.com.
|
||||||||||||
![]() |
||||||||||||||
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |