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Star Control: Origins - Founders Program Phase II
Greetings! Today we are opening up the Founder’s Program to Phase II in preparation for alpha testing (Fall) and beta testing (Winter). If you haven’t seen the gameplay teaser, you can check it out here: https://youtu.be/K6ntg47q_cM We’re still very early in development as you can see. The creatures and other cool stuff on the planets weren’t quite ready to show yet and we’re saving the best parts for a later reveal. Feature status ... [read more]
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Lifetime Founders: The "Name a Planet" submission period is officially open!
Thanks for being a Lifetime Founder for Star Control! Grab your space helmets and your thesaurus, friends - it's time for you to name a planet! How to submit your planet name: Go to www.starcontrolgame.com/nameaplanet Login with the Stardock account you purchased the founder's edition under and submit away! But first, there are a few provisions - quid pro quo, you know how it goes: Only ONE entry per user. You can change your... [read more]
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Star Control: September 2016 Update
One year ago I wrote the September 2015 update. You can read that here . A lot has happened in the past year. So let's get right to it! Greetings! With Offworld Trading Company now released as well as Ashes of the Singularity released, the Star Control team has gotten reinforcements. The team is now a who's-who of some of the most experienced game developers in the industry. Broadly speaking, the Star Control team is made up of the leads of Civilization IV, Civil... [read more]
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Mid-Summer Star Control 2015 Update!
Hi Everyone, We won’t be announcing anything at Gamescom as we are still early in development. To follow up with what we said a few months back, we won’t be making any large reveal announcements in 2015. But I did want to give you guys a summer update on the direction of the development of Star Control and what we have been working on. As you may have seen in the earlier sneak peak, we are doing a lot of R&D work on making the aliens inte... [read more]
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We're working having the aliens lip synced dialog. Here's a proof of concept with an alien reading the description for Sorcerer King ( www.sorcererking.com ). https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8051911/StarControl-talktest.mp4 [read more]
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Star Control: Spring 2015 update
Greetings! First thing, I talked to Paul and Fred and they suggested I talk to Riku Nuottajärvi about doing music for the new game (he worked on Star Control 2's music) but I don't know how to contact him. So if any of you could do me the favor of letting him know we are looking to talk to him I'd appreciate it. Second, with Galactic Civilizations III nearly done, the dev team and art team will be moving on to new projects one of which is Star Control. So... [read more]
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Greetings! We had a great meeting with Paul Reiche and Fred Ford. Really great guys. We went over a status report of where the new Star Control stands and emphasized that we would not make any attempt to touch the Ur-Quan continuity. Paul has given us hope that someday he will return to his universe and make a new game in it (he spoke about this at GDC today). [read more]