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posted September 15, 2018 05:26 PM |
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Edited by Blake00 at 17:27, 15 Sep 2018.
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Stevie
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posted September 15, 2018 05:49 PM |
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When I was 15 years younger or so, I played a game so incredibly similar to this that when I first saw the screenshots and the trailer I thought to myself that it was it. Well, it's not and I can't recall the name, but anyway, this type of game is something I used to enjoy in the cloudy memory of my childhood. I hope it finds enough support for a release version, not many games of this kind nowadays.
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blob2
Undefeatable Hero
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posted September 15, 2018 08:22 PM |
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Now this is some serious game archeology! Never heard of it, and I consider myself pretty knowladgble when it comes to games...
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Blake00
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posted September 16, 2018 01:15 PM |
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Stevie said: When I was 15 years younger or so, I played a game so incredibly similar to this that when I first saw the screenshots and the trailer I thought to myself that it was it. Well, it's not and I can't recall the name, but anyway, this type of game is something I used to enjoy in the cloudy memory of my childhood. I hope it finds enough support for a release version, not many games of this kind nowadays.
Hmm well if it wasn't starflight I might able to help you reconnect with it. Just like my HoMM Similar games website I've talked about here before I also run a Starflight Similar Games page where I've listed all sorts of similar games to Starflight with pictures. Maybe you'll find it there! Starflight had many different looking versions including a Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) remake. It also spawned the popular Star Control series which Stardock are making a new game for atm!
blob2 said: Now this is some serious game archeology! Never heard of it, and I consider myself pretty knowladgble when it comes to games...
Hahaha had to be rockin the space games in the 80s to know about this series mate. Although I didn't discovered it until the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) remake came out in the 90s. Grew up playing that version!
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Blake00
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posted September 26, 2018 05:48 PM |
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Well it looks like it was all for nothing sadly. Just over a day to go and the Starflight 3 crowdfund is barely over halfway. 30 years waiting for a sequel and its fails due to not enough media attention. So many thousands of SF fans out there (SF1 was apparently the first ever game to go platinum with 1mil sales back in the 80s) that never got to hear about this. Such a shame!
But there's still hope as Greg & Anthony said in a recent podcast that they'll look at improving the demo and may try a crowdfund again in the future or secure a publisher. If you're a big Starflight fan and you come across this thread long after it's too late, come join the starflight facebook group and they'll let you know the next time anything happens with SF3 (if there's a next time *sigh* ) plus the group is following a rather impressive Starflight 1 remake from a ex-bethesda employee so all is not lost for us old SF fans!
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Blake00
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posted August 03, 2021 03:51 PM |
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Well here we are 3 years on and unfortunately there hasn't been another attempt at a Starflight 3 game crowdfund or a new demo. However recently the first ever Starflight Anthology book was released and to celebrate that occasion something really cool happened! I run the Starflight fan communities so as a 'thanks' I got invited to take part in a group video podcast interviewing non other than Starflight lead dev and creator Greg Johnson himself!
I was a nervous wreck as I don't normally do live stuff, and I think I was the only non-American on there so people were probably wondering what I was saying half the time lol, plus on top of that my giant 46" screen was glaring on my face making me look like a bloody ghost haha.. but in the end I had a blast as it was so cool to talk to one of the creators of a game I played so much as a kid, not to mention getting thanked by him for my Starflight community work! Greg was a super nice and humble guy and he told so many great stories about creating Starflight, and his very popular ToeJam & Earl console games, along with his consultation work on the Star Control games and Spore which many of us didn't know about! He even discussed the possibility of a Starflight and Star Control crossover game which would be pretty crazy! And sure enough he confirmed that the original Starflight games were heavily influenced by Star Trek heh.
He also confirmed that the dream of Starflight 3 is not dead and that just a week ago he was on the phone with someone trying to secure funding for it. He talked about his dreams of what the sequel could be and he showed openness to trying another crowdfund campaign. We did our best to assure him that the Starflight fan community is in a WAY better state then it was back in 2018 when they last tried the crowdfund as back then all the big old Starflight forums were gone and there was only around 100 people in my 'new' Starflight Fans Facebook group so there was just no one to friggin tell about it! That's up around 400ish members now, plus I've since created a Starflight Fans Reddit group which is closing on 100 now, and best of all there's the Official Starflight 3 Discord I help out on as a moderator which is now up to a massive 800ish members, so that's over a 1000 starflight fans that weren't around in 2018 so we're getting there! The games sold millions of copies back in the day so there's certainly still plenty of long lost Starflight fans out there though! If there's any Starflight old timers lurking around here I hope you come join the gang!
Anyway, here's the video podcast if anyone is interested. I posted a comment on youtube with timestamps of interesting topics should people wish to skip to stuff that interests them...
There was more I wanted to say on there but yeah.. obviously the podcast wasn't about me haha.. but I got to say most of what I wanted. Really the only big thing I didn't get to say on the podcast was that I'm excited to read the new Starflight - Tales From The Starport Lounge anthology book (I've ordered it from Amazon but it hasn't arrived yet as it's probably on a slow ship heading for Australia lol!). I'm not a huge book person but I just had to get this as like I said earlier in the stream video it's amazing how playing a game and reading a book about an adventure set in that same game universe really enhances the experience. The game makes you love the book more and helps your imagination visualize the aliens and places they'll go to in the book. While vice versa the book makes you love the game more as it adds so much depth to the game universe and makes you crave going on your own adventures similar to the ones these new characters your reading about are going on. They both really buff and lift up each other to a whole new level forming this equilibrium of awesomeness haha! I had that experience with the Starflight manual short stories as a kid, and I had it in the years since with other games like Elder Scrolls Oblivion, Witcher, and the X Universe series space games that all have novels or short stories set in the same universe. So hopefully I'll like the new book and get to have that experience again with Starflight! Once thing's for sure, I already know I like the cover haha!
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