Developer posts and news about this game.
Greetings Commanders, It's been several months since my last news update. Coming up on the seven year anniversary of Starcom: Nexus entering Early Access, the end of the year, and a current big sale on Starcom: Unknown Space , this seems like a good time to give an update on what
Patch for Unity Security Issue CVE-2025-59489. Also includes update to Turkish localization content.
Earlier this week I updated the default build with a small patch . The main thing I've been working on since the last update has been investigating Unity's ECS system. That has been a huge learning experience with positive and negatives that will eventually warrant several blog p
Minor patch to fix: Localization bug preventing some text fields from being shown if user's system language was set to Turkish Fixed potential issue with user content Fixed typo
Since Starcom: Unknown Space entered Early Access in 2022, I've posted weekly updates on the game's development, with only a few scheduled interruptions. While I am still doing work on the game and releasing patches as necessary, I've started turning my eye toward what's next. I'
Two weeks ago I put up a player survey to gauge interest in a possible future Starcom game. So far, I've received over 600 responses. Most of the players who left comments expressed enthusiastic interest in either another game or DLC. The general vibe I got was similar to the res
The default branch has been updated to Kepler 21548. This updates/addresses the following: Fixes an issue where anomaly roll modifiers would not be reset between encounters, potentially leading to scenarios with very large bonuses or penalties until the game was reloaded. Fixed a
Last week I made a long post about ideas for a potential sequel, as well as a survey to gauge player interest in different possible changes. If you haven't already, please take a moment to fill it out and let me know your thoughts . On Tuesday, I posted a small patch to the opt-i
First, as previously mentioned, the game is now officially Steam Deck Verified! Through the help of players, I've been gradually improving controller and Deck support since 1.0 launch. The last mile from "Deck Playable" to "Deck Verified" took some time, mostly because the game h
Quick update this week: I'm currently working on a longer news/update post and player survey, but they're not quite ready yet. Last week I talked about making the Creator Tool available to all players, but was blocked due to an issue in the Steamworks backend that prevented it fr
There's a new Opt-in Beta available. This is a minor update: First, it hopefully addresses a long standing bug that caused skill check modifiers after certain anomalies not to be reset, leading to weird modifiers, like +1530%. Two, it implements necessary changes for future Works
Two weeks ago I talked about posting a player survey in the next couple weeks. I still plan on doing that, but decided to prioritize a few other tasks. One of those, as I posted about last week , was getting the game Steam Deck Verified. The other is working on a patch for the ga
Since the game's official 1.0 launch in September of last year, I've been making continuous updates to the game with new content, bug fixes and QoL improvements. Among these have been enhancements to controller and Steam Deck™ support. The game has been officially marked "playabl
In the my last news update I announced my wife and I were taking a trip to Scandinavia at the end of May. Now we're back. Nordic Game In the first half of the trip we were in Malmö, Sweden for the Nordic Games conference. This was the first time I've gone to a game developer conf
Kepler 21540 is a very minor patch to address some text scaling issues for Steam Deck verification.
Next week I'll be traveling with my wife to attend the Nordic Game conference in Malmö, Sweden. This is actually the first time I've ever attended a game developer conference: when I first started out doing indie game development, it was not at all clear that this would be a prof
(Posting a day earlier than usual because I'm out of town this weekend.) On Sunday I posted build 21533 which addressed a few QoL type issues and aimed to fix several of the remaining "stuck" issues. These are spots where the main storyline appears to stall out. Most of these cas
Various fixes to areas where players have reported being stuck with no clear way to advance the main storyline, plus some QoL improvements: Visited trade planets are considered "explored" for purposes of dimming explored stars (existing saves may need to revisit system) "Highligh
Very quick update this week: On Monday I posted a small patch that adds the ability to load a blueprint even if you don't have the requirements while in planning mode (plus a few minor other fixes). I've also started work on another minor update that will attempt to address some
Minor updates: If the player is in Planning Mode in the shipyard they will be able to load blueprints that they do not have the tech/resources for "Exit station" and "Delete saves" alert/confirmation dialogues now allow selection of a button when using the controller Several more