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Derek SmartDerek Smart (AKA Bane of Space Combat Sims) is a software designer and internet personality living in Florida. He best known as the eccentric creator of the Battlecruiser video game series. Smart is most well known for his online presence, which has probably far eclipsed any merits his games have. He's participated in some of the larger flame wars in the gaming culture. He is well known for his aggresive and proud attitude, frequently manifested in his many online postings. He is known to appear on any forum where his games are being criticised, mainly due to his habit of searching the internet for his own name, where he'll often create flame wars and ridicule all criticisms however much the said criticisms are justified. This eventually leads to Smart's supporters and detractors who are unrelated to the forum to sign themselves in just to appear and flame each other and ruin the forum thread. Among the more bizarre conflagrations, Smart's alleged doctoral-degree (all public information is signed as "Derek Smart, PhD") was shown to likely be fraudulent. Despite extensive claiming that he indeed has a PhD, Smart himself has consistently failed to provide any proof at all to substantiate his claims. His critics claim that his games are characterised as over-hyped, buggy, and have frustratingly complicated interfaces which require very large basic operating manuals. His supporters respond with the fact that he has managed to create and publish four games, which is four more games than most aspiring game developers ever get to create. During production of Smart's first game, BC3K, he made incredible claims as to the up-coming game's features. The game was supposedly released by publisher Take Two before it was finished. It was riddled with bugs making it all but unplayable. Combined with the exceedingly complex gameplay and interface, the game was publically lambasted. Smart voiced his opinions on the supposed premature release numerously and strongly; eventually, a patch (v2.0) was released to fix most of the major bugs, but most had moved on and no longer cared by that point. Smart's last game was Universal Combat, which received average to mediocre reviews in online game magazine reviews. Games - Universal Combat (2004)
- Battlecruiser Millennium: Gold Edition (2003)
- Battlecruiser Millennium (2001)
- Battlecruiser 3000AD (v2.0) (1998)
- Battlecruiser 3000AD (1996)
External links Smart, Derek
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