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 interact in real-time. The R&D results have been very positive though there is still a lot more to do. Our goal is for you to be able to interact with the aliens in a way that immerses you into the communication experience. We are in the process right now of casting voice actors for our alien races. Additionally when you are interacting with the aliens you will have their translated dialog come across in race specific fonts.  Having stylized fonts per alien race was something that definitely helped communicate the mood and tone for each of the aliens in the previous Star Controls and is something we want to carry forward. I can also say we are striving to make sure all of the aliens you will be encountering will be unique and non-humanoid.

One of our big milestone developments we hit recently that I want to share with everyone is with regards to multi-player. The team has gotten our first prototype multiplayer game up and running. Even though the game is still a ways out we feel it is extremely important to get play-testing on the combat systems and ship designs as early as possible. While our initial implementation is working for our internal development, it has a long way to go before we are able to share it with the public even in a pre-alpha form and gather useful data. Details on how you can join us in play-testing the ships in the multi-player space melee once we are further along will be released at a future date.

Stay tuned to the forums for more updates and sneak peeks. As always ask away with questions and present ideas and I’ll do my best to answer the what questions I can and participate in idea discussions.