Founder’s Journal

Brad Wardell
Executive Producer & Lead Designer

July 2018
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 TOPICS

1. Only one more of these!

2. Status Report
3. Star Control: Origins – Chapter 1 Beta
4. Scheduling
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 RELEASE DATE SET!
Greetings!

With the release date of September 20 coming. We will only have one more Founder’s Journal. I hope you have enjoyed these over the past 3
years. It has been a real joy and privilege to support such a wonderful community.

You are invited to join us on Discord: http://www.discord.gg/starcontrol where your Founder status will have a permanent special place in the
community.

We also invite you to talk to us on www.starcontrol.com

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 STATUS REPORT
A gazillion years ago we discussed that for us, Star Control is a space RPG made up of the following features:

1. Solar System exploration

2. Planetary exploration
3. Hyperspace navigation
4. Ship upgrading
5. Alien Communication
6. Ship Combat
7. An over-arching deep story

What makes Star Control so tough to do is that if you fail at any of those 7 things, the entire game fails. And many of these features are so different
than the others that it’s like making multiple games in one.

So how we doing?
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 SOLAR SYSTEM

The Solar system part of the game is effectively “done” at this stage. But I will keep showing screenshots. 😊
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 PLANET EXPLORATION

Done!
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 HYPERSPACE NAVIGATION

Done!
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 SHIP UPGRADING
In Star Control, your ship is your character. And we made a number of major visual changes to this over just last month.

Lots of new parts came in this month!

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 ALIEN COMMUNICATION
We have quite a cast of characters for Star Control: Origins. However, this part of the game is not yet quite done.

Without getting into spoiler territory here is our cast of major species in Star Control: Origins

Character June Status June Status

Commander Hayes (Human) Complete Complete
Wymdoo (Tywom) Complete Complete
Grist (Drakend) Complete Complete
Drakend Troooper Complete Complete
Pinthi (species) Complete Complete
Bloa (Mukay) Complete Complete
Mukay (species) Complete Complete
Mowlings (species) Complete Complete
Dr. Varroa (Pinthi) Complete Complete
Phamyst (species) Complete Complete
Menkmack (species) Complete Complete
Engineer Slyder (Menkmack) Complete In progress
Trandals (species) Complete Almost…done…
Scryve (species) Complete Complete
Xraki (species) Complete Almost…done…
Tywom Scout (generic Tywom guy) Complete Complete
Tywom Councilman Complete Complete
Jeff Complete Complete
Precursor AI Complete Complete
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At this stage, it’s mostly art and presentation.

 June 2018 (left) July 2018 (right)

Custom fonts per civilization are now in.

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 SHIP COMBAT
Ship combat is complete and awesome!
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 THE CHAPTER 1 BETA

The Chapter 1 Preview is available to ALL FOUNDERS NOW!

Those who want to get into it early can join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/2wchz7m and make sure you are part of the Founder’s group there.
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 THE SCHEDULE

Below is our current tentative schedule for you to know what to expect!

Month Milestone Status

March GDC Complete
April Fleet Battles Beta 2 Complete
May Open Universe for Founders / Chapter 1 Complete
June E3 Complete
July Fleet Battles Beta 3 Complete
August Founders select full Beta On Schedule
September 20 RELEASE On Schedule
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