Freehauler is a space trading and adventure game for PC with elements
of Elite, Hardwar and the classic trading game Dope Wars.
Experience an open ended universe filled with adventure...

• Make your own choices and engineer your own destiny
• Trade commodities for profit and status in the merchant community
• Stamp out menacing pirates who terrorise the trade lanes
• Gain the favour of the government or side with the criminal underworld for profit and power

The choice is in yours.

We can finally show you some development screenshots. These are for a prototype version and use placeholder artwork. The screenshots can be viewed here.

We are happy to announce the next development milestone has been completed. The result... a functioning game editor and prototype engine!. Read more about it here.

I have set up a Developer Journal on Gamedev.net. In the journal I will give a regular account of my personal thoughts on Freehauler and other aspects of computer game and software development.

After serious consideration I have decided, to take Freehauler out of Orion’s Arm and move it to its own setting.
There have been a number of things that have prompted me to this decision; the first reason being game design issues. For a long time...[More]

Read about it here

Some important project changes have been announced.

Read about it here

The domain http://www.siderealgames.com has now expired.  From now on, only http://www.freehauler.com will be valid.

The web hosting account also expired with the domain and the site has been relocated to a new server over the last couple of days.

This has caused a temporary downage so appologies for any inconvenience this has caused.
- Damon (Project Leader)

The domain http://www.siderealgames.com will expire on the 2nd of October, 2005 and will NOT be re-registered.  From this point on the only valid domain to this site will be http://www.freehauler.com.
- Damon (Project Leader)

Our website now has a new domain freehauler.com.  The existing domain siderealgames.com will remain valid, but it is planned that freehauler.com will be the primary domain of the project from now on.
- Damon (Project Leader)

The new Freehauler website is now online and boy what an effort! After 3 rejected designs and weeks of intense effort we finally got there! What you are seeing is (what we hope) a new and improved and above all, more professional looking project website.

But this is not the finished article by any means! The website will continue to evolve and grow. We will add new content in future and extend the features of the site.

In the immediate future however, the team will focus primarily on developing the game engine which is the hub of the project. Without the engine there is no game, so it will be our highest priority for a while to come. We will be releasing playable demos to the community when the game engine is in a stable state
- Damon (Project Leader)

The Freehauler website and forum are currently undergoing a massive overhaul. In light of this, the forum will be in maintenance mode for a day or so.