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Yes indeed. I first played the game without voices, when it came out.

It's the final day of the kickstarter. Ironically it comes down to the question if the voice- over stretchgoal can be reached . The first game was fine with just text, but a lot of people want voices.

Edit: they made the voice-over goal in like, the last hour 🙂

Sorry guys, I was on vacation the last two weeks, and did not check the forums. The next one can pick up the save. I'll update the turn list

I don't know how many of you remember Star Control 2, the Ur-Quan masters from the nineties?
It was a space-rpg with arcade like combat and a high dose of humor. For me it probably even ranks above DF in the list of best games ever.
It looks like it is finally getting a sequel by it's original creators. The new game will be called Free Stars: Children of Infinity.



It looks like it will stay very close to the original, with a retro feel, and the same arcade combat and humor.

They currently have a kickstarter going, which is already fully funded, but there are always stretch goals that would be very nice to have, so they can certainly use more support. The kickstarter page can be found here :
Kickstarter Children of Infinity
The kickstarter is currently probably the best source of information on the game, but they also have a website here:
website

I hear some of you think "but have there not been other sequels"
Yes, that is true, there have been, but they were not made by the original people and have received very mixed reviews

Star control 3 was made by Accolade after Toys for Bob lost the rights to the series. It is generally considered to be a dissapointment by fans, and the new game will likely act as if this whole thing never happened.

More recently Star Control Origins was made by Stardock. This is a very decent and fun game in my opinion, but takes place in a different universe with none of the original aliens and storylines.

Stardock does have the IP rights for the Star Control name, but not to the original content that Toys for Bob created. For the new game this is the other way around, the creators of the original game can and will use the old content and storylines, but can't use the Star Control name.

The community sections of steam seem to be down, not just the B12 one either. It might be related.
Edit: Oops you mean the bay12 site. I'm not sure what was there

I've tried to update the maps, and other stuff. There have been quite some developments, and I did not really keep up with events over the last weeks.
We are now in the fourth age of heroes, and the fifth century of active play in this world, which is crazy.

Here is the new map, there are actually multiple Traps of Dying, I guess one of them must be a trap, and not the real thing  :


It's turned into a cartographers nighmare by now, and I hope anyone is actually able to find something in this maze :-)
The photoshop file that I use to track things has turned into a nightmarish file with 238 layers, all with confusing names.
I should really organise this better for the next museum game. Speaking of which, it won't be long to the adventure mode release. Can't wait.

All this talk about engame shenanigans remind me of museum I, where somehow through the game mechanics all the past adventurers ended up squating the same house, and they started fighting as soon as anyone got near. At some point it did turn into a massive fight were all of them ended up tearing eachother to bits. It was not really an end-fight, more something that happened half-way the museum game, but epic nonetheless. It could be fun to see all the current characters have a go at eachother, controlled by AI. 

As for this suggestion, and the previous ones. I'm not qualified enough with DFhack to get any of those organised, but I have my popcorn ready in case someone does.   

It is indeed, Congrats!

That was from the original museum when Kesperan got twice husked. Did anyone at all get husked in the current game? It seems it is a rare syndrome in our current world, but it happened all the time in the first museum game.
I think the area around Homesafe the shrine of guarding is cursed like that, but I know of no other regions? We do of course have all the contagious undead syndromes to compensate for the lack of husking clouds.

All is well, I got a bit distracted with other hobbies over the last month

Anyhow, The turn list has been updated, but I have not read all the latest stories yet. I'll try to catch up.