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"It’s remarkably ambitious, but the terrain manipulation already looks fantastic and outer space is gorgeous. This thing has “potential” scrawled all over it." - PC Gamer

"I just had a major nerdgasm" - Markus Persson, Notch, Creator of Minecraft

"The idea being, you create your own insane Starship Troopers moments." - Kotaku

"It lets you build blocky structures, just like Minecraft does, but instead of coating them in low-resolution textures, it makes them look incredible." - Wired UK

" This morning I received an email telling me that the first playable build of StarForge was available. [...] Six and a half minutes later I was wondering how to put my excitement into words. Thirty seconds after that I decided to forget words and just share the bloody video. Watch." - Rock Paper Shotgun

"The most ambitious Indie game in history" - Gamer MC

"Is so remarkably ambitious that I can't begin to describe what I (and so far many others) like about its concepts" - Inside Gaming Daily

"I've played the game for a bit, and I must say: I am very excited for the future of StarForge." -Destructoid

 

"StarForge remixes Minecraft with sci-fi shooting reminiscent of Halo." - IGN

"StarForge is an ambitious 3d action game..." - Derek Yu, TIG Source, Creator of Spelunky

"...it’s another reminder that indie games are the best." - games.on.net

"Shut up and take my money" - Ncrpts, Poster from Reddit

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StarForge is a game about gathering resources, building bases, crafting anything you want, and surviving on an alien planet. Earth's star is dying and humanity transferred as much technology and resources as possible and left on a one way mission to populate another planet.

StarForge was inspired by Halo, Warcraft 3, Borderlands, Terraria, and Minecraft. It borrows elements from the RTS, FPS, RPG, Voxel Builder, Tower Defense, and Physics Sandbox genres. We are building a dark and serious universe and want the player to live out their own unique story on the procedural planet.

We plan to release Starforge for Windows and Mac (with possible Linux support after Unity 4 is released).

Procedural Weapons - Infinite weapon possibilities await. Do you fancy a 3 barreled chaingun, with a chainsaw bayonet, and a flame thrower attached for good measure? No matter how many chests you loot, you will never run into the same weapon twice. Weapons are also fully destructible, so another player can try to strategically rip off your gun barrels. Eventually we want to allow the player to build their own weapons as well.

Procedural Infinite Voxel Terrain and Space - Dig an endless tunnel, fly out to the far reaches of space, and come back again. There are no set boundaries in StarForge, and the planet will procedurally generate each time you start a new game. Hide out in endless forests or harvest them. Mine to your heart's content and discover the different biomes.

Procedural 3D Tileset - Build anything you want with our unique 3D Tilesets. You can create cities, towns, villages, bridges, forts, underground bases, trenches and much more. We are also working on making it all fully destructible, so you can shoot a rocket and blow a hole in the wall. Each material has its own defense and weight settings as well. You can also enter "Engineering Mode" and properly see the stress points on your building while your building it.

Underground/Surface/Space Gameplay - Build a tower that ascends into the clouds, through the atmosphere, then into space, and do this in realtime. Build orbital stations, launch rockets, and explore the vastness of space. Then jump down and fall back to the surface and start digging down to the core of the planet.

Physics Sandbox - We are designing every object in the world to be fully dynamic. Watch as your bridges fall when you remove a support pillar, or your buildings collapse under their own weight and stress. Snap trees in half by launching your vehicle on them. Construction, vehicles, players, ropes, objects, everything is physically simulated. Do whatever you want and enjoy what happens.

Physics Movement - Our movement model is designed closely around the real biomechanics of biped locomotion; it can simulate jumping, running, climbing, wall jumping, wall running, crawling and pretty much any other behavior all without the use of any state driven code. The result is a more human look and feel, and a character that is equipped to intelligently react to dangers far beyond what conventional movement code was designed to handle. It also features a full body IK system.

Loot, Level Up, and Survive - Before the humans landed countless weapons and armor were sent to Atlas. You will find loot chests littered throughout the land, you will need their contents to survive. We will be implementing a perm death system, so you will have to be careful. Every decision matters. As you gain experience you will level up and be able to choose and use new abilities that are unique to each Hero in the game.

Customizable Characters - We plan on allowing you to cloth and armor your character and change his or her appearance. You are unique and your character should be too.

Dynamic RPG like World - Enjoy dynamic weather patterns, a 24 day and night cycle and a real time atmosphere. Creatures will also behave in a realistic matter, scavenge for food and return to their hives at different times of day. Other refugees will gather to build villages, wars will erupt, and there will be the option to help out your fellow man in their quests.

Resources and Economy - There will be many different resources in StarForge. However, the player can only hold so much at a time. When the player can no longer hold what he mined, it will be placed on a palette. These pallets can then be put on transport trucks and shipped to your own warehouses to later be used for crafting. This will keep multiplayer games interesting as players will be forced to build road networks, warehouses, and transport trucks. Plus, they will have to protect it all from players acting as pirates or rival clans. You can also become a trader and try to find merchants to buy your goods at a high price.

Vehicles, Flight, Turrets, Furniture, Fences, ect. - We plan to support a lot of different content. So you can decorate your house, make your fort tough, or build an airstrip and fly a plane to your cloud base.

Multiplayer & SinglePlayer - We will have both modes playable in the game. Enjoy emergant gameplay where you land on the planet, meet other players and NPC survivors, build villages and go to war. Play whatever role you want, become a Solidier, Pirate, Thief, Architect, Miner, Trader, or just hideaway as a hermit. It's your world and you can do whatever you want in it.

 

Fort Wars & Fort Defense - If your the competitive type, you'll feel at home in Fort Wars, a game mode where two teams duke it out in their quest to destroy the opposing team's "vat". If you're feeling friendlier, you can co-op with your friends in Fort Defense, where you protect your vat from wave after wave of ravenous alien creatures.

 

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Here is what the money is used for:

"Survival: Rent, food, and internet to keep 3 developers working full-time for a year.

Hosting: Server hosting costs money, especially ones with alot of speed and bandwidth. Your money will help keep our main servers going, plus, allow us to provide some dedicated servers for the multiplayer.

Software: Help us afford the essential software needed for pushing this game forward.

Multiplayer: We plan to make a robust multiplayer experience. One that supports Clans, Server Listings, Rankings, Stats, and Leader Boards. We also hope to one day allow persistent gameplay across servers but this is only possible with your support.

Single Player: In order to do a proper single player game you need good A.I and lore. We have extremely innovative ideas on improving A.I beyond what you have seen in traditional games, and good things take time to develop.

Music & Audio: We will hire LoudCore to compose a full fledged soundtrack to the game. We'll experiment with Holophony, a 3D audio technique producing the illusion of full surround sound while wearing headphones. On top of this high quality SFX would really help boost the audio to the next level.

Art: Were looking to purchase some high quality creatures, characters, and weapons from some great 3D art talents we've got lined up. We want you to be able to feel the StarForge universe.

Polish: We generally don't like releasing anything unless it has undergone a lot of polish. So your money will also go to making everything the best it can be.

We've decided to use IndieGoGo because we feel we can only innovate without barriers by remaining independent. We enjoy communicating directly with you and we love all your ideas for the game. This is what makes developing games so special to us, it's fun, it's innovative, we get to share with you, and we feel the need to create.

Our vision for StarForge is innovation and fun, and by contributing to our campaign you will empower that idea and make this happen."

 

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If I had Coach Outlet Online not taken the $5000 and waited for the movie to come out, I would have been offered over a million dollars for the book. Playboy.com: In a similar way, with Vertical as a sequel, you have had kind of the same path.Rex Pickett: I’m sure people are thinking, “he is writing the Sideways sequel, he has a $2 million contract.” But that is not the truth. It was a real struggle. When Sideways hit I was hot and everybody wanted me to write TV and do screenwriting. My publisher said I needed to write another novel. I remember saying to him that I wanted to write a sequel and my agent said “you don’t want to do that because they own the film rights”. They read a screenplay I wrote in the early ‘90s called The Road Back, about a mother and son on a road trip. So that is the part that ultimately got into Vertical. I was writing that without a contract, then I find out that the publishers didn’t want a sequel and that they didn’t like the ending and wouldn’t publish it with that ending. The good news is that I got it published privately and we just won the gold medal for the independent publishers award for fiction. It was a long haul that was not fun.Playboy.com: Let’s talk about Vertical as a successor to Sideways. There is a lot of sex in there (even at the International Pinot Noir Conference where Miles speaks… has anyone ever had sex at IPNC?)…Rex Pickett: There is a resurgence of prudery out there. If you go back to the 60’s and you take people like William Boroughs or Lady Chatterley’s Lover. We fought these battles in the Supreme Court years ago. When I showed the novel around initially to some people and they were going “Oh God, Rex, whatever” so I scaled it back a little. In terms cheap coach backpacks of page count I’m going to go out on a limb and say there may be no more than 5-7 pages of sex but the pages that are there are not only graphic but are written in first person, so it hits a lot of people like “whoa!” I think that writing in 1st person, if you have a sex scene or something about too much drinking or whatever, it seems to be amplified or becomes more palpable because you personalized it. It is a little bit like you have a laser into my soul. I think that is one of the things that people admire about what came across in the movie and play, that I write from a very personal place. But if you add it up, Tropic of Cancer makes me look like Dr. Seuss! I write from a personal place and I write from a very honest place and I don’t pull punches.As far as wine goes, I’ll go on record in saying is that the real story inside the wine world is that these people really drink a lot. I don’t judge them, but that is a fact and they may be a bit uncomfortable that I key in on it. Playboy.com: What’s the deal with Sideways the play?Rex Pickett: The Ruskin Group Theater is a 55 seat house next to the Santa Monica Airport. About one and half years ago there was event called Pinot Days, so I went and everyone was pouring Pinot. Somebody from the theater came to the event and ran into me and said have you ever thought about doing a play. I said I hadn’t but I cheap coach backpacks met with them and they really wanted to based on the book, not the movie. I loved their passion, I started in filmmaking and love it and a play is similar. We are in our 18th sold out week and I demanded that we would have wine tasting for free with proper stemware, every night we had a different wine maker come down and pour for free and pour, liberally, high end Pinot Noir. We poured by the bottle between $40-50k bottles of wine for free. Now we are having trouble because we are in our 3rd extension. You could come down and drink and break even on the cost of the play and the free wine. That has been wonderful, to see them enjoy wine, take the wine into the theater and watch it. We are going to do a road show, I just signed with one of the biggest theatrical touring agents in the world. We are hoping to do it in the bay area, with our current cast.Playboy.com: People are still talking about the Sideways Effect, with Pinot Nor sales increasing and Merlot sales declining due to the movie. Do you every get **** from Merlot producers? You went on the record as saying that Merlot needed a correction from where it was in the 80’s. You have been unapologetic about the impact the film had on Merlot.Rex Pickett:I get a few questions from interviews and people at the theater. When I wrote the line I wasn’t thinking that this was going to be a movie or have any impact and when I wrote it back in the late 80’s merlot was a bit of a joke. I don’t know that the line is even going to make it in the movie or that Paul Giamatti is going to utter it with even more venom! In Bordeaux, Merlot is wonderful, in Napa where they mass market it now you have a $5 plonk that deserves to be vilified. Pinot Noir has just soared, but we are not starting see cheaper Pinots on the market and now they are going to do the same thing with Pinot.Playboy.com: Are you shelving Miles and Jack now that you have Vertical finished?Rex Pickett: At the end of Vertical Miles falls in love with a Spanish girl. So now I’m heading to Chile for 4 months as an artist resident to research the part three of the cheap coach backpacks trilogy. It has been a wonderful thing. There are no restrictions, I’ll write whatever I want to write. I feel like taking the characters somewhere different. With Sideways, wine is the back drop for me but the marketing has made it the forefront. But it is really about two guys, in their mid 40s, and failure. Vertical is really about success and where success leaves you. But I have had people tell me because of the way the play is written that I have written an epic love story. So I think that part 3 is going to be a love story.

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