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Hi there guys and girls,

For a while now we’ve been receiving emails, tweets, forum messages etc from people asking us how they can support Starbound. A lot of people have been asking for a paypal address or some other means of donating.

I’ve always said that I wouldn’t like to take monetary donations towards the release of a commercial product. Frankly, I think if you’re going to send us your money you deserve to get something in return.

So, another dev team who happen to be Starbound fans have offered to put their game forwards as a means of supporting the development of Starbound. Finally, I can announce that the developers are Yeti Trunk, with their wonderful game Wanderlust: Rebirth.

Wanderlust: Rebirth is an awesome retro RPG with full online cooperative play.

With Story and Survival modes, over 65 awards to earn, 4 character classes, crafting system, devilish AI, alternative endings, 44 enemies, 15 bosses and over 5 years of development, Wanderlust has a ton to do and is still actively worked on to this day.

 

 

 

Wanderlust: Rebirth will be Chucklefish’s first published game on Steam.

Much like an indie bundle, if you were to buy the game a % of the profits would go to Yeti Trunk and a % of profits would go to us, and in turn directly support the development of Starbound.

Wanderlust: Rebirth is available to buy right now at http://www.wanderlustgame.com/ for its usual price of $10 and the Steam version will be launching on July 27th, and is expected to be on sale at an introductory price of $7.50. There’s also a 4 pack option available on wanderlustgame.com and it’s likely we’ll make one available on Steam too.

The Steam version of the game is fully compatible online with the non-Steam version, so don’t be afraid to pick up the version that’s best for you.

 

Thank you for all your support so far guys, Starbound is coming along in leaps and bounds and this will help us a huge amount.

I hope to see you in game on Wanderlust: Rebirth, I play an Alchemist… which is a bit like a ninja that tosses potions at people.

 

 

Also, here’s another randomly generated Starbound monster for you:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’re close to 1,000,000 combinations now, not including unique colouring.

Introducing the Avians

Hello guys,

Today I want to introduce our first playable race, the Avians.

Avian culture revolves around the worship of Kluex, the winged god of the Aether. Avians believe they were stripped of their wings as punishment for entering the mortal world and will only regain their wings in the afterlife should they achieve absolution through worship.Throughout their history Avians have always been a primitive race, making little scientific progress. Avian numbers were beginning to dwindle when a superior race took pity and bestowed the gift of advanced technology upon them. This new found tech allowed the Avians to flourish and spread across the universe, building temples of worship as they go.

Avians soldiers are trained from birth to be fierce warriors and will protect their temples at any cost. Avian weaponry may look primitive at first glance, but the incorporation of advanced technology makes them particularly formidable. Avian generals forge wings for themselves that function much like jetpacks.

Though rare, Avians have been known to stray from their religious culture. Dubbed the grounded, these Avians become outcasts and find solace amongst other races.

 

A randomly generated, Avian temple.

Forest Biome

The following is a demo of just a SMALL number of the forests the game can generate on the fly. Each forest appears on the same terrain type in this video (as we’re not ready to show those off just yet), but forests are capable of appearing across all different kinds of terrain.

 

More info in the video description!