

We want you to have as much fun as we do, and help us choose the final features of the game for release.

That’s a pretty tall order, and there have been literally 21 developers working on the game in a peak of 15 or so 14 months ago to turbodrive our core team of 5. I've dreamt of it my whole life – to use a game engine to imagine what space travel in the next few years will look like and build a multiplayer sandbox around it which is fun, and possible, and wow – try to do it without using guns. This an early, early, access version of Star Rangers, which is our dream game. From a surprise meeting with Bill Nye at NASA, who said “Khal, build the game you want to, not what other people think you should build” to enough funding to allow us 2 years of developing and private testing on Steam, we think we’re ready to show the public our alpha of Star Rangers on Steam. Star Rangers XE stands for Star Rangers eXploration Engine, a new way to explore the solar system through gaming. When we go live we will have approximately 36 missions suggested by fans.”Ībout This Game Explore space as an astronaut recruit and build on other worlds in Star Rangers XE “We are going to ask for voting and content suggestions, and role out "missions" accordingly. How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process? “Pricing will be the same after Early Access.” Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access? It is an alpha, though and should be considered this only because the highest level of the tech tree will get tweaked quite a bit, although the core gameplay (ie. What is the current state of the Early Access version? “The finished version will have approximately 10 more missions making up a story arc in the direction the players have suggested with either a) more buildings b) more vehicles c) more locales, but most likely a combination of all.” How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version? “We are guessing approximately 9 months should do it.” We need time to understand and implement modding or steam store compatibility so players may contribute.”Īpproximately how long will this game be in Early Access? We are also testing VR features and wish to release with it enabled across all the maps and be compatible with the release version of the VR hardware. Offering a unique opportunity to visit the Solar System and using NASA content, we can focus more on ground-based building or space-based building or rockets and craft. “Star Rangers has been 26 months in the making, so we're not coming in new, but we do want to know from players in which direction to focus.
