In this first post of what could become a new series, we are going to take a closer look at the intricacies, design philosophy and gameplay effects of the Recipe Book (and it’s limit) in Stars Reac...

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 -...

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 announce...

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...

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 2...

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 ...

Do you remember the Hidden Fog Update for the Stars Reach pre-alpha playtest last December? In case you’re a bit foggy on the details: It completely removed the fog that was added to the game previ...

In this post we will create a fictional calendar system, just for fun. But we are going to build not something completely fantastical, but a calendar that actually works for planet earth. Leap year...

Stars Reach is a modern attempt to realise a very old dream: the creation of a living, breathing, online virtual world. It’s an MMORPG set in a vast science-fantasy world - a brand-new IP they deve...

The 30th pre-alpha test update for Stars Reach went live on Wednesday the 27th of May - just two weeks after the previous update. We haven’t seen a two week update in nearly a year, with the Brave ...