Kickstarer has closed. Pre-orders will begin in a few weeks.
We are still getting this website into ship-shape, and we'll be populating it with more content as time allows.
I'm sure you'll agree that my time is better spent on game development than web development!
- StarDrive is a 4X Action-Strategy game where the goal is to build a space empire.
Starting with a single planet and a small number of space-worthy vessels, you forge out into the galaxy, exploring new worlds, building new colonies, and discovering the StarDrive universe.
The heart of StarDrive is its ship design and combat engine.
StarDrive takes a module-based approach to ship design, allowing the player to create custom ship designs where the composition and placement of ship modules really matters to the performance of a ship in combat. In combat, if your portside armor is taking a beating, then rotate around and show them the starboard side! Hide behind a friendly capital ship's shields, warp into and out of the fray, launch fighters, lay mines, and so much more.
Customize your Race by selecting from a large list of physical traits, socioeconomic traits, and traits relating to your history and traditionDeep, module-based ship design as described above
Lead your forces into battle with your own flagship that you control like an arcade shooter; command your fleets like you would in a real time strategy game with simple mouse commands
Tactical ground combat to take over enemy planets
A deep research tree with many dozens of technologies
Alien Artifacts to find and collect, which give bonuses to your empire
Rich diplomacy options, allowing you to make and break treaties with alien races; trade technologies and artifacts, sell ships, declare wars, and design joint operations with your allies
Finally, MULTIPLAYER. Do this all with your friends online
- Ship design is not limited to only your Flagship.
You design every ship in your fleet using the same system.
I have included dozens of stock ship designs that will come with the game and become available to the player as they gain new technologies.
The AI will pick from these stock ships in building its own fleet, and the AI will also steal some of your ship designs.
- The main economic work in StarDrive is the acquisition of new planetary colonies. Colonies produce resources that are simplified into 4 categories: food, production, research, and money.
Each resource fills a role.
Food is consumed every game “turn” by the colonists on your planet. Insufficient food supply leads to starvation and population shrinkage; sufficient food supply allows population growth. The larger a planet’s population, the more resources it can produce.
Production of resources generally is tied to planetary population.
By Dominic Tarason December 1, 2011 - 12:43 pm
Heya! I write for DIYGamer.com – you might have heard of it – fairly large indie news/preview/review site and all. I saw your thread on the SA forums, and was wondering whether it would be possible to get a preview build of Stardrive for a proper writeup? It’ll be particularly interesting to see how it compares to Starfarer once both of them are closer to completion, and more space sims, even 2D ones, is nothing to be sniffed at.
Anyway, looking forward to hearing back from you
Thanks In Advance
Dominic Tarason
Writer, DIYGamer.com
By neliz February 8, 2012 - 11:59 pm
Bought it, simply because stuff like this SHOULD be bought.
By Nathan December 14, 2011 - 5:10 pm
Hey is there going to be a preview build for pre-orders?
Or like a proof of concept demo?
By Wowbagger December 30, 2011 - 4:16 pm
Check Kickstarter, It has alot of info about the betas, indevs, and pre-orders.
By Shawn Reece December 21, 2011 - 2:06 pm
Is there a possibility of an open beta in the future?
By iski2881 December 31, 2011 - 5:28 am
Congrats Daniel,
Here’s to a fantastic 2012 “The year of Stardrive”, and I cant wait for my email about a beta download. HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL
By zhaohuang January 1, 2012 - 7:29 am
Hey, for those of us who missed the Kickstarter funding, will there be any more opportunities (such a Desura’s alpha funding) for us to give you our money?
By yar January 2, 2012 - 1:11 pm
I’m curious as to how we pre-order now that the kickstarter is over. I learned of this game the DAY funding was no longer being accepted on the page but I would still like to contribute to the beta process and pre-order the full game. How do I do this?
By yar January 2, 2012 - 2:18 pm
Is there any way to pre-order now that the Kickstarter page is out? I learned about this game the DAY it finished and I’m really interested in pre-ordering and participating in the beta. If that’s not possible I’m more than happy to just pre-order, any way to help out such a great looking project!
By Avathar January 8, 2012 - 6:59 am
Wow just found out about this games looks fantastic, same as Yar is there a way to still preorder, and is there a date for release ?
cant wait to play the final
By BiggTedd January 17, 2012 - 5:01 pm
Dan,
do you have a twitter feed that we can follow? Keep up the good work, game looks awesome!
By Nick Shively January 21, 2012 - 12:11 am
Hey Guys! I’m a writer for Structure Gaming and personally a huge supporter of Indie Devs. I stumbled across StarDrive while browsing IndieDB for upcomming titles and would be extremely interested in doing a preview article on your game. I feel that quality space based games have been few and far between for the last decade and have been desperately trying to find a new “gem”. Let me know.
-Nick Shively
http://www.StructureGaming.com
By Starwarp January 22, 2012 - 10:28 am
Dan,
I would like to register but there is no email.
And if i try to use the “lost password” function,there is also no email
Great work on this game,hope you can surprise us.
By BC304@t-online.de January 22, 2012 - 10:37 am
Hi Dan,
i would like to register on this site but there is no email.
And if i try the “lost password” feature there is also no email,hope you can fix it.
And great work on this game so far,it looks realy good.Cant wait to play it.I become realy jealous if i read the forum here. (work of an word translator)
By Starwarp January 23, 2012 - 3:48 am
Sorry Dan.
delete my second comment please.
The double comment was an mistake from my side sry.
By Alejandro Carbajal January 26, 2012 - 3:17 pm
So is there a possible way that this will be available for mac? or only windows? and is there any way to get into a beta or alpha download, and to still preorder the game somehow? This looks like it could be one of the best game since Sins of a solar empire and I’m looking forward to it
By Wilson la biopsy January 27, 2012 - 8:05 am
Good stuff I’ve bookmarked this in Digg under “StarDrive: 4x Action Strategy”. So hopefully our friends can give you a visit. Keep up the good stuff.