“Physics Midterm” is the name of the newest update patch for the Stars Reach pre-alpha testing phase and it’s a big one. The game has been progressing faster-than-average before, with just a little...

Last post, called “Endgame”, I wrote about how a player-driven economy can be never-ending - a perpetual game. I believe that for MMOs which are meant to be played indefinitely, it’s desirable to ...

Video games, for the most part, tend to have a defined start or beginning - as well as an end. You beat all the game levels, you completed the main story arc, you reached max character level and fi...

The newest update for the Stars Reach test servers is all about going back to actual testing. For a while, everything was about the Kickstarter, and during that time, the playtest was even official...

This update featured procedurally generated creatures as is headline feature. For now, this procedural generation is limited to stats, combat abilities and behavior of the creatures - but this is p...

The stress surrounding the Kickstarter caused a little delay on this, but we are finally seeing a new build with new updates ready for testing. And it’s not farming - again. Developers said in the ...

“Story” is a term that’s often used in video game discussions, but rarely is clearly defined. What one person thinks of as “story” often only partially overlaps with another person thinks that “sto...

Older Types of Media I do and always have enjoyed good books and good movies (and sometimes even bad ones!). Books are hands-down the best way of telling stories - they can describe everything, in...

The original plan for this update had been to add farming, but since that did not get ready in time, the “only” thing we got was a new planet: Escarion. And a whole slew of quality of life improvem...

I feel that raytracing gets a bit maligned these days, mostly due to the way that Nvidia is marketing, advertising and pricing their RTX brand of graphics cards. But RTX and raytracing are not exa...