VGA Planets Nu Blog

Long awaited Alpha Release 4 is here and it is a complete game. We're calling this release "Let Slip the Dogs of War", because that is exactly what we will be doing. The first full multi-player Alpha games will be played on this release.

A new scenario has been released called "Strike Early". This is a bit tougher scenario where you need to build an early army as soon as possible.

Announcing the first "playable" version of VGA Planets Nu: Alpha Release 3 entitled "An Empire is Born".

We've been working hard on Alpha Release 3, which is going to be a huge step up in functionality over AR2.  In the process we are moving to what will...

Here we are 8 days after Alpha Release 1 happily announcing Alpha Release 2 titled, "Build Your First Starbase". This release is a huge step up from the first release and starts to breath life into your home world.

We are very proud to announce the deployment of alpha release 1 (AR1). This release is the first major step toward the new version of VGA Planets. Our goals for this release were the development of the overall user interface framework as well as the hosting framework and data extraction from the original source data files to a more modern database format and we have achieved these goals.

The team has begun extracting data from the original file formats and publishing it here on the website.  The data is being moved to a database where...

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.

As we wind down the Kickstarter fundraiser, many of you are probably asking the question, "What happens next?".  We will be posting an answer to that...

We are coming into the final three weeks of the fundraiser. We would love to see VGA Planets reborn and the community revived, if you would too then tell us by pledging a few dollars.

The first screen design concept has been created. The intention of this concept is to give everyone a first look at the the idea behind VGA Planets "Nu" and how it may appear in the final version.

We achieved our first milestone today and are one step closer to a new VGA Planets version. The project has just reached 10% funding only 4 days after starting the fundraiser.

There have been a lot of questions from the community over the past few days. I wrote some long responses in the forum at RCWorld and am reposting them here so that everyone can see them.

No official VGA Planets project could start without the first step taken by its inventor, and the hero of the community, Tim Wisseman. So, when we here at Geographical Media decided we would like to create a new web based remake of Planets v3 we knew that before even considering the project we would need to contact Tim.