frog_of_ages

This is what I have been anticipating. Sign me up please Frogboy!!

If the team has time to spare, can we get an updated 'tentative schedule' listed for the founders members? I think that the team at Stardock is doing a great job of responding as needed, and I think that a posted update here could go a LONG way towards letting us have an insight to how things are progressing. Just a thought, keep up the great work, guys!! -ribbit

I just received an email stating that my planet name was approved. So there is some communication. I believe that they are head down in development mode.

SavageMind1, I like your suggestion of having the toggle between top down and angled view modes! That's got my vote!!

RonPimpster, Dude, sorry to hear that EVE online caused you issues. It's a game that I recently got into and am having fun with. Though I can see in the future that my time there will be more limited as Star Control comes online.

One thought that I had, if the developers want to keep the top down type battles, then there could be a scanning report window or something like that to inform the player what they are up against. While this may somewhat limit the ship visuals in the super melee combat, it would give the more classic feel to the game battles. Otherwise I would think that the partial angle something like how the over the shoulder game play works in some games might work. </

Since there is going to be procedural generated environments, I would imagine that the planet names will form up a database type list for the game to pull from. Though how that translates into player experience will be an interesting feature to watch as the game progresses.

My name is Eric "Frog" Elders (look me up on mobygames.com). I used to be a game software test lead, but have moved into schooling for IT network security/administration. I had forgotten that I signed up to be a founder (I know, I know who could forget that, right?) and just received the planet naming email. I downloaded the theme music and all I can say is WOW! I am so looking forward to seeing where the gameplay and designs go. Just reading through the August dev blog really upped m