Stellar Stone

Stellar Stone
This company wasn't stellar in the slightest.
Founded: 2000 Headquarters: United States Ukraine

Stellar Stone LLC was an American game developer based in Ukraine founded in 2000 that developed games for Microsoft Windows. Most of their games were published by GameMill Publishing (now known as GameMill Entertainment).

Currently, Stellar Stone's whereabouts are unknown, though it is rumoured that they went defunct in 2006.

List of games

Game	Year	Publisher	Platform(s)
Taxi Racer	2001	BestBuys Interactive	Microsoft Windows
Gettysburg: Civil War Battles	2002	GameMill Publishing
Remington Big Buck Trophy Hunt
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing	2003
Total Pinball 25
Ultimate Civil War Battles: Robert E. Lee vs Ulysses S. Grant
Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!	2004

Why Their Games Weren't Stellar

1. Their games are loaded with a murderer's row of bugs and glitches as if their development lasted only a month and then the games were released in a buggy and glitchy state. Taxi Racer and especially Big Rigs are inarguably the worst offenders.
2. Abysmal and ugly graphics that look like they were taken from the era of the Atari Jaguar, despite Stellar Stone's games being made in early 2000s. The models in their games are ugly to look at, and some parts look like they were taken from a random magazine and gave the games a really horrible look.
3. Collision detection ranges from horrid to non-existent. For example, in Taxi Racer, you can hit the street lamp even if your car is a mile away from it, while Big Rigs has absolutely no collision on anything except for the terrain.
4. Clunky and slippery controls; in Remington Big Buck Trophy Hunt, jumping or aiming is impossible and switching items can be only done with the F1-F6 buttons instead of a more usual button, and Taxi Racer's controls are so slippery that it makes it nearly impossible to not hit a building.
5. Their games tend to reuse sound effects too much, which shows a sign of laziness. One example is the crash sound in Taxi Racer, which is also in Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!. The engine sounds are also the same, which is also the case in Big Rigs.
6. Despite Total Pinbal 25's name, they didn't even give it 25 boards. Instead, the game features the same 5 boards with barely any noticeable differences, which could tell that this game was also rushed, although not as much as Big Rigs.
7. They tend to forget to check if something works correctly sometimes. One example is in Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!, where Firelight crashes the game, but can be fixed by doing one tiny thing; renaming its filename from MR_.mat to MR.mat.
8. Their games were somewhat silent, as they didn't really have any music. They do exist in one of their folders, though.

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