A while back, master toy designer Erick Scarecrow from ESC Toys approached us with an idea about making some Starbound collectibles!

In Starbound, penguins are sentient beings, living and working alongside the galaxy’s other races. Despite their outwardly cute appearance, they are mischievous rogues who prefer the darker underbelly of society. Some penguins have achieved great renown as scientists, black market dealers and even space pirates!

Erick picked up on this and decided our penguins were really cool, so with our support he’s launching a Kickstarter for a set of limited edition penguin plushes! This will allow ESC Toys to gauge how much interest there is in Starbound merchandise. We think these are super awesome and would love for them to exist! Check out the campaign for more details!

On the development front, we’ve continued to work on vehicles, secondary weapon attacks, monsters, and also horizontal projectile platforms. :)

<3 Happy Friday, everyone!

Hey everyone!

This week Tccoxon’s been working on more generated quests, Healthire and Metadept have been working on secondary attacks for weapons, Kyren has been working on vehicles, and the artists have been working on monsters. It’s been a good week. :) I hope to be able to show off some of that stuff soon!

Following up on last night’s post, the lovely folks at GameCity sent us a picture from the venue – we’ve got a whole Starbound window! It’s so pretty!

Read below the cut for tonight’s “Who’s that Starbound monster?” reveal. <3

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Happy Wednesday, everyone!

Around this time last year, we got to go to a really cool game festival in Nottingham, UK called GameCity to demo Starbound. We had a really awesome time showing off the game and giving out stickers and badges at our little table, so we’ve decided to do it again this year!

This year we’re trying something a bit bigger – let’s build a colony together! We’ll have a few PCs running Starbound throughout the festival, and one of them will be dedicated to running Operation Colonisation. People can come up to the Operation Colonisation PC throughout the day to make their contribution to the colony. We’ll take screenshots throughout each day, and hopefully we’ll be able to make a timelapse at the end! Contributors to Operation Colonisation will receive a ~super exclusive~ contributor sticker. :D

If you can’t make it to GameCity, don’t worry – this is our first time trying this out, but if all goes well we’d really like to do something similar at future events, too! You should have plenty of other opportunities to get a sticker. I like giving out stickers. Stickers are great.

I do hope we see some of you there! <3 You can find the GameCity schedule here.

If you’re not interested in *any* of this but would like to see another of the unique monsters we’ve been working on, click to see the rest of the post!

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