A blog about anything I'd like to write about. Mostly video games and especially Stars Reach.
This is it. The final PAT - the last pre-alpha update ever. The Stars Reach pre-alpha playtest is coming to an end, and less than two weeks from now, the game will officially start being in alpha - while simulatenously launching on Steam’s Early Access. As a direct result - this is going to be very last and final PAT “pre-alpha test report” I write on this blog. There will be more blog posts a...
The patch update 8.1.5 “Exterior Decorating” for the Stars Reach pre-alpha playtest landed this tuesday, just before midnight (in central European time, that is). Ever since the developers announced the start of Early Access was planned for later this summer, they’ve been working hard on getting the core gameplay loops come together. As of right now, the game’s core gameplay is not ready for EA...
Report on an Unidentified Space Station is a science fiction short by J.G. Ballard, an “English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media.” (according to Wikipedia). The story is publicly and freely available online, and it’s quite short, even ...
I know I’m a little late with my blog post on this update - but only because I was busy finishing up my retrospective of year two since the game announcement. The update landed last Thursday, the 25th of June. Just one single week after the Into The Clouds update. I believe this is a first - never before have we had a single-week update. Of course that also means this might be one of the small...
Stars Reach - the new MMORPG project of Raph Koster - was first announced to the public on the 28th of June 2024. That Raph had founded a new company and was working on something, had already been known earlier - but this was the day that they revealed what they were working on. I wrote a post about the fan community of the then still unnamed game prior to announcement - as well as a post look...