Development News, Quick Update

ISG Quick Update #2 – What we’re working on now

Hey everyone, today our quick update will present what we’re working on right now in preparation for the next release.

The team is working hard on all development fronts. We finished adding all the colony events. When a colony event is generated, sometimes it triggers immediately after colonization, other times a few turns later. Next, we’ll be adding the galactic events.

We’re also working on the starmap revamp activities, fine tuning all the map objects and adding animations and other effects. The zoom and pan features are already in. The starmap is looking good and should help provide a good immersion feeling when it’s finished.

The system view is also different now, more realistic...

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Jul 03, 2018
Quick Update

ISG Quick Update #1 – Events

Hello everyone, today we start a new series of quick updates that we will post between bigger updates and major releases.

The idea is for these mini updates to be quick and juicy, so let’s start shall we? :)

What we see here is the first “Colony event” that we implemented just a few days ago. In the meantime we added 6 more. The idea is to have around 15 of these events which will pop up after you colonize a world, and I’m sure more will come in the future. Then, we’ll be adding a few selected “Galactic events”, which shall pop up from time to time while you play. Something has come up, you need to make a decision, that type of thing.

Graphics aren’t final, this was just for you to get a sense of where we’re going with the events...

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Jun 14, 2018
Dev Diary

ISG Dev Diary #9: Progress Update on Pre-Alpha 11


Hello everyone,

development work has been very intense over the past month and we thought it was time to make a break and create this update to let you guys know about the progress made and what is ahead of us in the short-term.

Since the release of Pre-Alpha 10, we’ve been very busy at fleshing out the game races, namely on defining all of their traits, special abilities and unique abilities. All the game races, including a fourth unannounced one, now have their own set of abilities, and we’re happy to announce that the race customization feature is now also complete! So, in Pre-Alpha 11 you’ll be able to create your own race with the perks you wish...

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Apr 18, 2018
Development News, Releases

Pre-Alpha 10 Released!

Hey everyone!

We’re proud to announce that Interstellar Space: Genesis Pre-Alpha 10 is released! Here’s the trailer.

To get the update you can re-download from the same link you got from Humble Bundle when you pre-ordered. Your link is always the same and always gives the latest version. If you’re having trouble finding the link you can use the order resender and Humble Bundle will send you a list of your download pages.

This a huge one, and as you can see from the features listed below this is almost like a completely new game. A lot was added, and we feel the game has hit a level where one can start to have a lot of fun and a good level of engagement. At least that’s how we felt while playing and testing this new version. Hopefully, you will feel the same. Please let us know what y...

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Mar 03, 2018
Dev Diary

ISG Dev Diary #8: Pre-Alpha 10 Features Preview

Hey everyone!

We’re happy to report that Pre-Alpha 10 is almost finished, with only further internal testing to be done before we make it available for everyone who pre-ordered.

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Since this new build is mostly done, we thought it would be nice to put up a list of the upcoming features (and it’s a lot of stuff). So, here it is!

As for when Pre-Alpha 10 will be available, that will depend on how many bugs and other issues may come up. Our tentative ETA is end of January, early February.

NEW

  • New and Improved Graphics!
    • Completely new ship 3D models for all races.
    • New effects for each of the beam and kinetic weapons.
    • Completely new graphics for all the races.
  • Ground combat system added!
    • New techs and corresponding buildings: Planetary defense shield, Planetary deflector shield, Planetary b...
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Jan 23, 2018
Dev Diary, Development News

ISG Dev Diary #7: Progress Update on Pre-Alpha 10

Hello everyone,

we’ve been hard at work at bringing new features and improving the game in significant ways. Pre-Alpha 10 is in progress, and with it a lot of new shiny things will be brought to the table, which I’m sure you’ll find will be worth the wait!

The ground combat and bombardment mechanics presented in the last dev diary will be in. Star bases will also be added, which can be upgraded both in the economic and military sense. Also, a variety of planetary defenses along with the star bases will enhance the defensive side of the game further. What this means is that new strategies will be required to assault and invade colonies in Pre-Alpha 10, which will provide more meaningful choices and require you to plan things out a little bit more.

Along with ground combat, bombardment, pl...

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Dec 19, 2017
Dev Diary, Development News

ISG Dev Diary #6: Ground Combat and Bombardment

Hey everyone,

it’s a been a while since we post a dev diary. The last one was on May of this year, for Leaders.

Since then, pre-orders have opened with Pre-Alpha 7, we did lots of gameplay and balance adjustments for Pre-Alpha 8 with the feedback we obtained from the community, and a major UI revamp was made for Pre-Alpha 9.

Now, we’re currently very busy adding all the remaining systems in our road to Alpha. These major systems include: Ground combat, bombardment, starbases, ship refit, espionage, race customization, more techs, more wonders, more weapons and system specials (ship modules), a new race, an in-game tutorial and events. After all of this is in the game we’ll hit Alpha and we should be entering Steam Early Access soon after.

Today we’ll be discussing two of these systems t...

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Nov 20, 2017
Development News, Media

ISG Pre-Alpha Preview at eXplorminate

Oliver “Mezmorki” Kiley from eXplorminate has just published a great preview of Interstellar Space: Genesis. Go check it out! :)
https://explorminate.net/2017/11/06/interstellar-space-genesis-pre-alpha-preview/

I think this says it all:

I take this opportunity to publicly thank all of our staff and VIPs for their dedication and support to this project so far, for which the game wouldn’t be nearly as good and polished as it is today, especially for a Pre-Alpha.

And, a special thank you to all the people who have already pre-ordered the game. We’re a small indie studio, so your support is very much appreciated and critical for the game’s success...

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Nov 06, 2017
Development News

Pre-Alpha 9 Released!

Hello everyone,

we’re proud to announce that we’ve just released a new public version for Interstellar Space: Genesis, Pre-Alpha 9.

This release was a big leap forward, we think, in terms of providing better usability and appeal. The entire UI was revamped to what will be close to the final UI style we envisage for the game. The game should also look much better in higher resolutions now, since the UI now scales with the screen size.

Along with the major UI overhaul, we also added a new ship selection mode, and several other quality of life improvements like the possibility to execute pending actions through the Turn Button directly or the new togglable layer to show all the star system’s scanning levels quickly. We also made several balance changes, added music tracks and fixed many bugs.

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Oct 12, 2017
Development News, Media

Space Game Junkie Podcast about ISG

Hi there!

ISG was invited by the Space Game Junkie team to participate on the next podcast and talk a bit about the game. The dev team will be present and we’ll discuss topics about the past, present and future of the project.

The show will start Tuesday, September 12th at 6 AM PDT/3PM CEST. You’re all invited to tune in on YouTube or Twitch.

UPDATE: You can get the MP3 version of the podcast here!

Thank you!

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Sep 11, 2017