Published on Friday, June 15, 2018 By Frogboy In Star Control Journals
Greetings!
Lots of exciting things happening!
Star Control at E3
Stardock had a big presence at E3 this year where it announced the release date for Star Control: Origins - September 20. The last day of Summer!
Stardock's Patrick Shaw on stage at E3 presenting Star Control: Origins!
You can watch the trailer here:
Published on Thursday, June 7, 2018 By Island Dog In Offworld News
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Published on Thursday, June 7, 2018 By Island Dog In Press Room
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Published on Monday, June 4, 2018 By GGTheMachine In Ashes Dev Journals
Experiential unit design is the realm of making units and other game components feel different from each other, players have to think completely differently about Siege Tanks and Zerglings because of good experiential unit design. It may sound like a simple topic, but many RTS games have failed due to not executing it properly, resulting in a bland game where unit control is unsatisfying. Today I'll be exploring examples of superb experiential unit design from a few of my favorite RTS franchises, including Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
Published on Friday, May 25, 2018 By Frogboy In Star Control Journals
Greetings!
This is the LAST month for monthly Star Control updates before release....because now we're moving into weekly updates because things are moving so fast.
The Menkmack arrive!
We will be announcing our official release date soon. You may have heard that we will have a big E3 presence and we anticipate announcing the final release date then. For those of you who are familiar with Stardock, you know we tend to run a bit "hot". With Star Control: Origins, being that it's a role playing game, we actually have to "finish" the game this month. That is, the..how would you guys describe this? The GAME part. That's because we need lots of time to iterate on the story.
Star Control is a space RPG that focuses on the story. It's not exploration for exploration's sake
even though it's in a very big universe.
Published on Monday, May 14, 2018 By Island Dog In Press Releases (GalCiv III)
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Published on Friday, May 11, 2018 By Frogboy In Star Control Journals
Star Control: Origins continues to head towards its September 2018 release date!
Here's the week in screenshots!
The galaxy is a busy place
We will be keeping these journals spoiler free. With that in mind, the year is 2088. Earth exists in a part of the galaxy called Orion's Spur ("The Spur"). It has recently become a much busier part of the galaxy and you will be uncovering why that is.
Star Control is a single player RPG where you command a single ship but the galaxy is filled with characters with their own agendas.
Players travel from star system to star system via Hyperspace. Hyperspace is a hyper dimension that forms an alternative space-time adjacent to what we call "true space". It can be a bit..trippy to travel through it but it allows for travel between stars in a faction of the time it would take to go via true space.
This week we updated the visuals in hyperspace to give a better sense of movement when no stars are around.
There are a lot of different alien species in the Scryve sector alone (let alone the outer spur). Humanoids are quite exotic due to their rarity. Beings are fascinated in seeing a hairless bipedal ape.
The Phamyst are the classiest aliens in the known galaxy.
Much of our focus right now is in polishing and iterating on the story and the AI. There are thousands of planets but also thousands of other ships running around doing their thing as well.
On a personal note, this week my design work has been spent on helping with story and pacing which meant I have to...gasp, travel the worlds without any cheat keys. This was particularly enjoyable but also embarassing because the AI controlled aliens really want nothing to do with us because...well, we're newbies on the galactic scene. This means that they tend to avoid us and our early game ship just can't intercept them because..well, we're newbies. But it's highly enjoyable to see the subtle but definite effort the aliens put in to avoid me. It's so effortless and insulting simultaneously. 
Published on Thursday, May 3, 2018 By Island Dog In Offworld News
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Take on the role of entrepreneur and travel to Mars for an economic showdown against
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You can also snag Offworld Trading Co. for 50% off or
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Published on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 By GGTheMachine In Ashes Dev Journals
Balancing an RTS is difficult. It’s a long, iterative process and, inevitably, there will be mistakes along the way.
Today, I'll be exploring what makes balancing an RTS such a challenge, and explain my intentions for some of the changes I've made throughout my time with Ashes. In a previous Dev Journal, I discussed why balance matters, so read that first for additional context.
Published on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 By GGTheMachine In Ashes Dev Journals
Hello Ashes fans!
**2.75 Update**
I've been very active with play testing on the upcoming 2.75 update and it's gone through a few iterations. Thanks to all the community members who have been testing it with me and offering me great feedback, Chronopolize in particular. Most of our updates don't have the opportunity for this much play testing, so I'm really excited about these changes and how the community will receive them. There's some other cool things happening in 2.75 that I haven't yet mentioned in the March Dev Journal.
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