Stars Reach doesn’t look like you remember

I've been remiss in posting updates on Stars Reach here. I mean, the Kickstarter finished back in March (late pledges still accepted)! Today, though, I want to brag about our awesome AI and proc gen driven worlds.

Over the last few releases, we have been rolling out yet

https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/06/20/stars-reach-doesnt-look-like-you-remember/

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One week of Stars Reach Kickstarter

Wow, it has been an intense six days.

We launched on Tuesday, which feels like an eternity ago. It's a mad scramble to get everything done, make sure you have all the content ready, to answer the huge inflow of questions, find all the spots where you weren't quite clear enough... but you just sur

https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/03/03/one-week-of-stars-reach-kickstarter/

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STARS REACH Kickstarter funded in 1 hour

I can't tell you how much of a rollercoaster yesterday was. We hoped to see a strong Kickstarter but reaching our goal is less than one hour is just amazing, and a real expression of support from the community. Thank you all so much. (You can check out the Kickstarter here!)

We're not stopping here. As I write

https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/02/26/stars-reach-kickstarter-funded-in-1-hour/

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Stars Reach and Play Testing Combat, Exploration, and Ranger Skills
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https://tagn.wordpress.com/2024/10/21/stars-reach-and-play-testing-combat-exploration-and-ranger-skills/

Scenes from a Stars Reach New Tools Play Test
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https://tagn.wordpress.com/2024/10/07/scenes-from-a-stars-reach-new-tools-play-test/

Old movement stuff for STARS REACH

When it comes to interim stages of game dev, I am a bit of a packrat. I have paper maps from when I was doing Ultima Online, and UI sketches for Star Wars Galaxies... of course, for my current thing, Stars Reach, I have a whole pile of images and videos going back to the very earliest d

https://www.raphkoster.com/2024/08/28/old-movement-stuff-for-stars-reach/

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The first players land in Stars Reach

GIF courtesy of hooby, showing sunrise on the test map

This past weekend was a huge milestone for us -- the very first regular players landed on an alien world in Stars Reach and ran around and had some fun!

This was a pre-alpha test aimed mostly at testing our login systems, infrastruc

https://www.raphkoster.com/2024/08/21/the-first-players-land-in-stars-reach/

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Using a vision exercise to define what Stars Reach is about

Long-time blog readers may recall that I have posted about my standard "vision exercise" before. It's a simple four question exercise you can use to think through what your game is about:

What is the game system about?

What is the ga

https://www.raphkoster.com/2024/07/31/using-a-vision-exercise-to-define-what-stars-reach-is-about/

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