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The Project is a Go! Tuesday, August 03, 2010 During the Kickstarter fundraising campaign we received a tremendous amount of feedback, emails, comments, offers of support and assistance, not to mention nearly $2500 worth of pledged financial support. Despite not achieving our funding target we still consider the fundraising effort to be a success in terms of generating excitement, getting the word out to the community and determining whether there is enough of an audience to justify the development effort of a modern version of VGA Planets. We have decided to proceed with the project and are now opening the site up for Early Registration. With early registration you can sign up to reserve your game name and begin discussing the new version in the Forums. We will be releasing parts of the game as we develop it. So in the first stages it will not be possible to play a complete game, but it might be possible to build a ship or simulate a battle. As more features are developed they will be released and we will update the site. This is what we will call the "Alpha" stage of the product. Once it is possible to play a complete game we will begin the "Beta" stage where we work out all the remaining bugs. We will post regular updates, we expect the alpha stage to take at least 3-4 months. The work starts now! Joshua CommentsThere are 12 comments - add your comment Dustin "WolfStar76" Snyder - Wednesday, August 04, 2010 1:38 PM This is FANTASTIC news! I'm signing up RIGHT now! mela - Wednesday, August 04, 2010 5:32 PM Hey WolfStar76, It's great to see you so excited about .Nu. Thanks for your support. We are excited too! Mela Geographical Media Team derdom - Thursday, August 05, 2010 7:11 AM I still can't believe it and looking forward to the first test-games :D jens - Thursday, August 05, 2010 8:10 AM I'm sorry the fundraising goal was not reached completely, but this are great news that you the start the project anyway. Good luck to all of you!!!! I'm looking foward ... ;) Jens knarl - Thursday, August 05, 2010 8:27 AM this is a dream come true again!, i played this game in high school computer lab in the 90s. congrats on the project start up! knarl - Thursday, August 05, 2010 8:29 AM this is a dream come true again!, i played this game in high school computer lab in the 90s. congrats on the project start up! action - Thursday, August 05, 2010 11:52 AM I am already registered! Since August 3rd... Guys, I am checking the site everyday, eager for the firsts alpha tests. I resigned my participation in a game that was about to start to have enough time to check the site regularly and check new features as long they became available. Good job, may the force be with you, so say we all!! jhong - Friday, August 06, 2010 7:44 PM Count me in. I'm happy to help in testing. Looking forward to the finished product. I think you have got a winning idea here guys! Can't wait to do my turn on my iPhone :) rbos - Friday, August 06, 2010 8:04 PM I hope this project goes well. Multiplayer Web games are a surprisingly popular and profitable area right now, and I feel VGA Planets' time may actually have come again. Some changes will probably have to be made to accommodate the new format (such as real-time play instead of turn-based), but I think the game is solid and will translate well. donaldworrell - Friday, August 13, 2010 7:14 PM I wasn't ready to just send money on faith. But you get some movement forward on a playable web based vga planets then you can get some money out of me. I still just can not believe this is happening. jhong - Friday, August 13, 2010 8:46 PM I know. Awesome isn't it! If this project delivers on it promises I will happily pay just $3 a month to play. At $30 a year it's about half the price of one console game. Sounds reasonable to me. Pobs - Monday, August 16, 2010 9:42 PM I've not played VGAP for quite some time, and I'm excited to see this.
As for the charging monthly, then that makes total sense. $2.50 / month !! Anyone who complains at that is crazy, there are some games that got so good that people probably would have paid $2.50 per turn at times. Like you said its the price of 1 coffee a month. Too manyn people used to downlaoding everything for free these days I think! The only thing I dont like is the permanent connection bit. Planets for me was often done locked away on my laptop whilst traveling or sat in airports and therefore the permanent connection is a bit of a pain, especially in a game where deadlines are so critical. I see many comments about hosting, and I guess that many people liked to host and gained the feeling of ownership of their games. Some thought needs to go into allowing people to host, and configure their games exactly as they want to, afterall its the enthusiasm about new games that draws people in. You need the hosters, and a good method for hosters/new games to be visible and advertised by the people who set them up. Off to look at the fund raiser now. Sounds like a good deal to me.
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