Defect SDK has you battle your traiterous crew in the spaceships that you built

Defect SDK isn't anything new. It lets you build spaceships by picking out each part in a tile-based system before heading into outer space battles.

But it does have an extra idea on top of that to separate from other games like it.

The crew that you command upon these ships will, at some point, defect. They'll abandon your authority and carve out their own path.

This means that you'll have to build another ship to fly around in. And here's the cool bit: when you return to space, you'll be able to battle the previous ship you constructed.

This means that when designing a ship you'll want to give it a weakness that you can exploit in the coming battle against it.

Not only that, but Defect SDK (that stands for "Spaceship Destruction Kit") is a looker.

Watch the trailer, look at the images, and you'll see that this is a visually magnificent game. The graphics of the spaceships are crisp to the point of them almost being tangible.

Adding to that is the purple and blue lighting, lens flares, the star-sprinkled backgrounds, and sumptuous explosions of bright colour.

What you can't see quite so well are the three thematic styles of Defect SDK's sci-fi, referencing the '50s, '60s and '70s. It's the golden age of vivid, theatrical sci-fi, and its visuals are matching.

Defect SDK has an extensive single-player campaign and allows you to share ship designs online. It will be heading to iPad and Android tablets soon. Check out its website for more.