Developer posts and news about this game.
It is with great sadness I need to inform this community that Ziggy, Chief Financial Officer of Ionized Games, passed away over the weekend. Unfortunately he had a steady decline in health since his diagnoses in May of Osteosarcoma which is very aggressive bone cancer. It's kind
This is totally random but, if you want to try something totally different check out our new game The Backrooms This wasn't exactly planned but when working on Episode II there were a number of new features we were trying to implement surrounding dozens of AI perceptions operatin
This patch focuses on bringing some of the effects and systems like footprints, trails, volumetric effects and lighting, and IK kinematics used in CAT Interstellar: Episode II Shown here: Update 6.2.0: Androids The Androids have all been upgraded to be a little more... life-like.
This is the first major content update in a while. I've been primarily focusing on CAT Interstellar: Episode II but development has taken a little longer than I expected so I thought I would push some more content to the original in the mean time. So, UPDATE 6.1.0 (Win/Linux) THE
Purpose So, CAT Interstellar: Recast was an effort to explore and learn all the new features in Unreal Engine 5 in the hope of using it for Episode II ... I don't want to say this effort was a mistake (it wasn't) but: It took a lot longer than expected due to bugs in the early ac
New DOG VII model We commissioned Ionut, the original designer of DOG, to make an ultra hi-poly version that leveraged Unreal Engine 5's nanite mesh Technology. The resulting model is about 500,000 polygons and is a huge improvement in terms of fidelity and detail. Screenshot too
We're going to be live streaming development of the upgraded CAT Interstellar. Working on the cave environment. We're gonna stream here for an hour then switch to RECAR
CAT Interstellar: Recast is now available on the Steam store. Broadcast link We'll be doing broadcasts for most of the day so feel free to drop in even if it's just to tell us what we did wrong. Seriously, If you've followed this game for any amount of time you know that I genuin
So, you might have noticed we launched a Steam store for a Remastered version of CAT Interstellar using the Unreal Engine 5. I will now attempt to explain Why we decided to remaster the original Improvements made to the game Why we made it a separate application How owners of the
Encrypted Message from Colonel Alexander - Sergeant Gary Freeman, your leave request has been denied indefinitely. I’m sure you expected as much but I hate to be the one to officially decline it. I understand you have a son back on Earth but we require your immediate attention. W
I've never done one of these live streams before but we have to gin up support somehow so... Let's do a Face Reveal!?! Ionized Games face reveal for 1 million followers and a billion dollars!!! Ziggy, Our Chief Financial Officer might even make an appearance! We'll take an inside
Finally I am so flippin excited to announce what everyone probably already guessed: CAT Interstellar: Episode II That's right, we're officially developing the second installment of the CAT Interstellar series and it's gonna be nuts!!! We got Martian Rovers, Marines hunting Androi
Price hike You read that correctly, against all conventional thinking I’m actually going to raise the price of this game to $9.99 USD . The one thing I want all the newcomers here to know is… we have no idea what we’re doing. Seriously, not a clue. BUT I’ve learned a little bit o
Turing Canyon A favorite site among Martian Advertiser selling the idea of a terraformed Mars. Turing Canyon was formed from millions of gallons of defrosted water runoff caused by the initial nuclear bombardment stage of the planet. The storm pressure above the canyon raises the
Ziggy , our junior programmer, has shown incredible potential in economic theory and so we’ve promoted him to Chief Financial Officer. His first act as CFO is to dramatically increase profits by making CAT Interstellar a Pay-To-Win… er… I mean, Free-To-Play game. It is worth noti
Barring any major bugs discovered this will be the version used for the full release. Why do a Full Release? CAT Interstellar was always intended to be about an hour long and tell a very short story about an unfortunate event on Mars. I think it meets the requirements of the orig
Barring any major bugs discovered this will be the version used for the full release. Why do a Full Release? CAT Interstellar was always intended to be about an hour long and tell a very short story about an unfortunate event on Mars. I think it meets the requirements of the orig
TL;DR this is the full story of CAT Interstellar with the subtitle system re-vamped. This build is worth another play-through from beginning to end. Content Cave scene ending with all triggers and key events. Signals full sequence of events. Credits completed. Added additional di
TL;DR this is the full story of CAT Interstellar with the subtitle system re-vamped. This build is worth another play-through from beginning to end. Content Cave scene ending with all triggers and key events. Signals full sequence of events. Credits completed. Added additional di