starwright

STARWRIGHT

Seed the void · run the lanes · hold the line.

A space sandbox with a shared universe: trade the lanes, fight when deals go bad, jump between procedurally-laid star systems, and drop to a planet — or a station deck — on foot, solo or with friends in the same world.

RUNNING IT

Starwright.exe

HOST A FRONTIER   starts a world. Hosting alone is single player; there is no        separate mode and nothing is missing from it.

JOIN A FRIEND     asks for the IP of whoever is hosting.

Your callsign and password together ARE your account. The first time you use a   callsign it registers with the password you typed; after that the server will  refuse the wrong one rather than hand over that pilot's credits, cargo,  reputation and ship garage. Passwords are hashed (PBKDF2-SHA256, per-account  salt) and the world saves survive a restart.

PLAYING WITH FRIENDS

The host opens UDP port 7777. On a home network that means a port forward on  the host's router, or a LAN game, or a VPN like Tailscale / Hamachi. Everyone  needs the same build.

CONTROLS

Everything is rebindable — SETTINGS ▸ CONTROLS, on the title screen or from the  pause menu. Keyboard and gamepad bindings are both live at once; rebinding one  leaves the other alone. Out of the box:

  FLYING

    MOUSE            aim (yaw / pitch)

    W / S            throttle up / down

    A / D            roll

    Q / E            strafe

    SPACE            fire

    TAB              cycle target

    N                nav boxes     SHIFT (hold, aimed)   FTL jump

    M                galaxy map    C  camera             X  flight assist

    G  land          H  dock       F  mine / use

    K  trade         Y  contracts  U  faction standing

    B  build         L  loadout

    ESC              pause

  ON FOOT

    WASD             move          MOUSE  aim

    SPACE            fire          R  reload      V  V.A.T.S.

    F                use / talk — and, standing in the airlock, undock

    ESC              pause (the menu has the way back to your ship on it)

  GAMEPAD

 Left stick flies and walks, right stick looks; A fires, B uses, X reloads,  Y cycles target, shoulders strafe, Start confirms. The rest is on the CONTROLS screen, drawn as the actual pad buttons.

SAVES AND SETTINGS

Worlds and pilots are saved by whoever is hosting, next to the executable. Settings and key bindings are per-machine (Windows registry, under Doublehash\Starwright), so they follow you between worlds.

CREDITS

Ships, stations, planets, weapons and the whole rigged crew were generated on  one local GPU through asset-forge (ComfyUI + Blender: concept → mesh → texture  → auto-rig → Mixamo clips). Nothing in the art was bought per-asset and nothing  left the machine.

  Third-party assets in the build: the Sci-Fi Corridor kit (station interiors),  Kenney's Input Prompts (the keycap and pad-button glyphs), the Robtronika  typeface, and a free sci-fi weapon and warp-effect pack.