Starfare is a free real-time strategy game that is developed by FreeMotion Studios. The game combines features known from games like Age of Empires and The Settlers with new elements such as moving resource fields and teams of up to 64 players. Starfare has a single player mode as well as a multi player mode (work in progress, not yet released) which enables the players to mess via LAN or internet.

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Already implemented over 30 units and technologies and 8 different weapon types. The environment (the space) is completely generated and changes with each scenario you play if you wish to. Campaigns have static settings though. Units, weapons, scenarios and fractions (races/folk) can be changed with a text editor or even be created from scratch which will affect all the players that join a multiplayer game.

Custom games can also be created allowing you to fully change the most important game parameters, such as AI strength, number of asteroids and opponents, etc. Each player will have to choose one of the fractions which influence their gameplay: The fractions have different properties that apply to their players. However, players with the same fraction do not need to be in the same team. The multiplayer mode will come with an update later.