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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]
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August 2014 quick status report
Greetings! While Star Control is not officially announced, it's no secret we're working on it. Here's a quick status report: We are developing a prototype to start from using Oxide's Nitrous 3D engine. The prototype is very similar Star Control 2 but with a mini story. We hired comedy writer Chris Bucholz (Cracked.com) as the lead writer for the series. We are evaluating/discussing/debating/arguing/eating (okay maybe not eating) the different aspects of what ... [read more]
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Stardock's Brad Wardell Talks to Arstechinca about the Star Control Title in Development
I know many of you have been itching to get more info on what’s been going on with Star Control, and today Arstechnica published their interview with Stardock CEO Brad Wardell on just that topic! “In July of last year, developer and publishing house Stardock acquired the rights to the highly celebrated but long-dormant Star Control franchise. The company announced plans for a new Star Control title which would be heavily inspired by the franchise's most famous entry... [read more]