Nod - thanks for the info; I will investigate the non-DRM Steam situation when the time comes. It will be some time before this is a playable game, although I feel it is further along and more polished than two or three other efforts in the genre that seem to be widely reported on. At the moment, I'm just trying to ascertain whether there would be any interest, and there seems to be not a shred, which is pretty discouraging - I've come close to giving up. Gaming sites like Joystiq haven't wanted to run anything about it, which makes me think either there isn't a market for this genre any more, or it's going in a direction that people don't like (e.g, lots of ship-systems modeling, a thing more at home in the 90's gaming market than today, perhaps, when more simplified experiences are preferred).

I sincerely appreciate your taking the time to try - very few have even looked - and the feedback (find a better video hosting site) is very useful for me. You've my gratitude.

I'm sorry about your video experience; I don't have a site for the game yet (it's a bit early in development). I tried to use youtube for the videos, but that didn't work when they required a cell phone number for verification, which I don't have. Dailymotion was not my first choice of video hosting sites, believe me, but I didn't have luck with Vimeo or Youtube. Eventually, if I can get this project to live (it's gasping for every breath at the moment), I'll buy real hosting and a message forum for it. I do have some direct links to the AVI files on filehosting.org, but I'm not sure I trust that site enough to post the links here, unless someone knows for certain it's safe.

It's an Elite-like: I develop it natively on Linux, although it runs on Windows also. However, the project is pretty close to dying on the vine for lack of any discernible interest. It's just a personal project done with no budget (at all), so wouldn't compete with major studios in the graphics department, but I think it's at least semi-credible on that front for a one-man indie game. (If curious, see Part1 Part2 Part3, though be prepared for amateurish presentation. I'm genuinely curious, since I thought there'd be some in the Linux community who'd like such a game).

It's a bit sad, but I suspect the project would have had far more interest if I *had* chosen to DRM it and sell it on Steam, but I'm about as anti-DRM as they come, even for a project I've put a year of my life into. I'll give up the whole thing before I'll allow DRM anywhere near it, even if that means it cannot succeed.