Wild Tangent - Remake the original Dark orbit (2001)!

It's the year 2150, and you're stuck on Nibiru, the tenth planet of the solar system. As the sole survivor of a shattered mining colony, you must defend yourself from the onslaught of aliens awakening from beneath the barren world's crust. Using the precious few resources still available, you can build more advanced firepower into your mining craft to turn it into an awesome fighting machine. Five detailed levels to explore with multiple enemies and terrain, many puzzles to solve and quests to conquer, modular and upgradeable ships.

I remember at the age of twelve I played games on our HP Windows xp desktop as a reward for getting good grades in school. That was about the time I found the game, Dark orbit, in 2002-2003. I played the game demo and thought the detailed 3D appearance, great story, and exciting gameplay amazed me. I fought the large alien in my space ship, upgraded what I could with the minerals I gathered, and reached the end of the demo. My parents saw that I really enjoyed the game and my dad thought it reminded him of Star Trek (In which I liked Star Trek too). After some time I asked politely if I may have the full version of the game some time. My parents then said, "If you work hard and get good grades, then we will consider getting the game for you". Time passed on and on my birthday I ended up getting the game which ended up costing $30-40 (which still surprises me today). To skip the details on the gameplay I ended up have the best few months of my life. I beat the game on max difficulty several times over the next year discovering things I missed in the game and hoping there would be an expansion. Alas, like anyone would, I got bored.

A year later I wanted to play the game again. I tried looking for the game on the same desktop, and for some reason the game disappeared completely as if it never existed. This was a year before or around the time of windows vista. I couldn't find the game that fascinated me anywhere online. Back then I didn't know WildTangent put Dark Orbit on their discontinued games list and was or a part of developing the online multiplayer game. I also didn't know back then that you could request to trade in the the discontinued Dark Orbit game for available games (but that is beside my point). The point is that Wild Tangent tore away something out of my life and I wish for some one day for the game to return.

I would be willing to pay money for a windows 7+ remake or recode of the original single player Dark Orbit game. Though, by now I don't understand why WildTangent couldn't just release the complete game to the public for free (auto key approval or removal of the key registration process) so that random people could recode the game to work with modern computer graphics and operating system. Then again, WildTangent could be so foolish as to delete all of the game's data.

I know this might seem like a pipe dream, however I know this is possible in one way or another. If this petition gets enough signatures I would like WildTangent to form a small team to re-code and release the game to everyone for free (without the need for a game key or old computer and software) in which I wouldn't mind a short advertisment while loading the game to pay for the work it took to recode. Another idea it make a new game or remake that is worth $40-60. Wild Tangent would need to hire a medium to large team to rebuild plus upgrade the appearance of the original game with perhaps an expansion of the entire original game from scratch (larger game than original). There could be an option of minimum multiplayer like playing with a few friends, though nothing more. If there has to be a Indiegogo or Kickstarter fundraiser then so be it.

I hope that one day this dream will become true.




P.S. Forgive my ignorance if the original Dark Orbit is so incompatible to the point of being impossible to recode to become compatible to modern computers. Also, this is my first petition, so I don't know what I am doing. Ahaha XD