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 survive on little sleep and keep pushing. And sometimes you get a good result!

Last night we hit the $500k mark on the Stars Reach Kickstarter. This also unlocked our third stretch goal, the Hyugon playable species that you see animating over here. (There’s a blog post up on the website if you want to learn more about them!).

But that’s far from all. We also hit a stretch goal for the Hansians, an aquatic species that is one of my favorites. There’s a blog post up about them as well. We’re dropping bits of their lore into these behind the scenes posts, as well as sharing their visual evolution through art iterations and market testing.

There’s also a series on our audio design posted up there, as well as other material. Lots of info coming out about the game now, so keep an eye on the News section for it. We will try to be good about reposting this content on Reddit and Steam as well.

We’ve also ramped up our YouTube presence quite a bit! There have been six videos on the Stars Reach channel in just the last week, including several livestreams. Some of these are part of a new series called “Q&Raph” in which our community manager Thomas interview me for a half hour at a time. These dive deep into technical stuff, the background of the project, and more.

We also have done sneak peeks of upcoming features, sessions with other devs on the team, and more. Worth checking out, if you want to have something to play in the background while you work!

All in all, this has been an exhausting week, but it has been amazing to see the support from the community. We will be keeping up this content drumbeat throughout the campaign, of course, so there’s weeks left of this grueling pace.

Lastly, I wanted to share some images from recent playtests, because, wow, players have dazzled us with their creations.

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