I know it's been a bit since I've made a post detailing the upcoming tech 22 alien invasion content -- and I thought what I am currently working on is interesting enough to warrant one!

Firstly, I'm sure many people have seen some of the progress on the new alien models. We have recruited the help of a very talented artist who is doing an excellent job making the denizens of Subspace extremely organic -- and creepy. While only a few images of the aliens have been released, be assured, they're looking awesome.

Secondly, I wanted to talk… Read More...

Firstly, my apologies for the lack of update last week. Last weekend got somewhat busy and I was a bit unwell at the start of the week. Onwards to more cherry subjects though, Spacey Jones!

I've finished up making most of the items to go with him, most of last week's session was spent doing items and tweaks. Scripting had to be curbbed temporarily while the rest of the items had to be made. We've got some retextures of ships for use of Spacey Jones, but Spacey Jones himself doesn't have a visage yet, I've been using the Rosmarinus… Read More...

Sorry for the late update this week. Sleeping schedule is a bit messed and I got really tired!

Anyway, finished up balancing out the scaling of Spacey Jones strength, made some more lovely items for him as well (16 auras would be a good start). I would have to say that the most 'exciting' part of this though is that I started writing his script!

Noticied a few technical issues with the original plan when I got to work on the script, but I found ways around those pretty sharpish. Spacey Jones' script will be pretty extensive in terms… Read More...

Second week has gone by, despite the Christmas and other celebrations I've managed to squeeze in a good length of work today.

The boss scripting condition that I'll be using to test the strength of the players in the galaxy that are the bosses enemies is done! I actually started this last Sunday, and finished it on the Monday, but I didn't want to say anything until I had it fully working. Given the implemention of this condition, it's pretty easy to link in things other than player level or hull tech level, like max shields, current shield %, or… Read More...

So the first week of Sunday Side Projects is done, and thus my update is here! Huzzah!

I didn't get as much done today as I hoped to due to Christmas tree decorating (yes, it's just teetering on the edge of acceptable now, but still a tad early). But in the time I did get stuff done, I've made some lovely progress on the design document and core design of Spacey Jones. I was originally planning to share the design document (non-editable) but I (with some assistance from the well dressed Suit) have come up with some awesome ideas… Read More...

As you all know from the recent blog post by Calypso, we're working hard on Alien Invasions and the Tech 22 expansion. As you may also know from tickets I've handled in the past or forum topics I've posted on, I have a nice big long todo list of various content-related tasks, like rebalancing and adding more temporary drones, doing the same for fighters, as well as other ideas for small bits of content which I've kept quiet up till now. Obviously, when your colleagues consist of a handful of paid staff and volunteers getting tasks like these done can… Read More...

A New Threat to Earthforce – Aliens!

I’m sure rumors have been circulating as to what the next major content update would bring. More UrQa, the Ancient Races, evil Paxians, Super Pirates, Space Ninjas? Really, there are countless possibilities. However, we’ve decided to forgo all of those and instead focus on something bigger than any of those threats… Alien Invasions!

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We're EXPANDING!!!!

I am so excited to announce that Star Sonata has expanded it's paid staff. Our development team has grown from Jeff, our project lead and Jey, our server administrator and lead programmer, to nine total paid staff! This is all thanks to you, our players, for sticking with us over the 8 years of our existence.

Our paid staff now includes three additional programmers, two content developers, a web developer, and me, your Support and Marketing lead! Our programmers have been hard at work bug fixing and optimizing the client to bring the game to anyone who wants… Read More...

Welcome to the new Website!

We’re proud to roll out the latest site update to StarSonata.com! We have a few new features for you including the long awaited Team Forums! Team directors can set these up. If they have any questions on how to set up a team forum you can make a support ticket at starsonata.com/support.

A few of the pages still aren’t quite finished yet and we’re working out the kinks. If you happen to run into an issue we’ll have a topic setup on the forums for issues you run into on the… Read More...