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Looking forward to this one on Steam Deck since it'll support support Linux out of the box!
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this post was submitted on 14 May 2024
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I’m looking forward to it because it’s the official sequel, from the original creators, over thirty years after the fact, to my favorite PC game of all time. Star Control 2 (Free on Steam but now renamed to Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters due to a bizarre copyright squabble) is an open-world (galaxy?) sci-fi adventure with brilliant and hilarious writing, endearing hand-drawn pixel art, and phenomenal music. There’s nothing quite like it. It was crafted with a deep love for gaming and I have no doubt the sequel is being treated with the same kinds of reverence.
EVERYBODY BACK THIS PROJECT! (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pistolshrimp/free-stars-children-of-infinity/description)
Just to add this: Star Control 2 is not only free (as in free beer), it is free (as in free speech). The open source project is hosted on SourceForge (yes, that still exists), and has a website that is worth checking out: https://sc2.sf.net/
Everyone who is so inclined to back this project, please do so.
However, I'd highly encourage you to do your due diligence first if you've never backed a crowd funded project before, and especially so if you've never backed a video game crowd funded project. Even more especially if you'd only back a project due to extra platforms "unlocked" through stretch goals.
There's a lot that can go wrong in these kinds of endeavors (even when they're started with the best of intentions), and it's easy to end up feeling cheated by how it plays out (even in cases where something is delivered in the end).
Your points are totally valid, but I will share my reasons for having faith in this particular project:
I will admit that there’s risk in it being a small team chasing nostalgia, so even if it does deliver something, the quality may not be what we all hope it could be. But I have enough faith in the team that it can’t be worse than Star Control 3.
Yep, me too. Played it as a teenager in the late 90s. I already backed it as well!
I could probably Name That Tune for 90% of the songs even to this day.