Hey Tatermand, I am going to use this :-) Originally I wanted a more pixel-arty style like http://opengameart.org/content/shmup-ships but I really dig your subsmission, its awesome! I love the clean, detailed style and the fact that the ships can be configured.

Although impudent, I would like to request a few things (things that are missing from the other stuff I wanted to use thus far as well). For the record, I am building a space RTS game based on carrier warfare, think World War 2 Pacific Theater with large carrier groups operating fighter squadrons. No base building involved.

art requirements for my game:

• I need some capital ships in the same style as fighters, ideally really large (like 10 times the size) with rotatable turrets
• I need explosions...   of course you need to blow up ships :-)  With the pixel-art style, I had lots and lots of explosions to choose from but if I use something with this detail, I need something that matches the style. My ideal conception would actually be ship-specific explosions with ship-specific debris. For capital ships, I had planned to do something like Wing Commander 3 did, with the capship burning out and being reduced to a floating husk. Problem with this ship-specific explosion thing is that one probably needs variants as well to avoid the battle from looking repetitive. (Game engine has been build with this in mind already and supports the feature)

nice-to-haves:

• I would require a few more asteroid types (actual variations, not recolors), specifically some bigger ones
• some alternative starfields would be nice (to simulate another stellar system)
• missiles, beams and blasts, though these are definitly lowest on the list as there is lots of art appropriate to go with yours.
• more ships of course
• ships of a different style, which could be used as another race / faction

Please do not feel obliged to do any of this :-)