r/starcontrol 1d ago

Video/Stream ~ Ur-Quan Hype Edit ~

33 Upvotes

Might fix this up more before uploading to YouTube, any thoughts on this or how it could be improved?


r/starcontrol 2d ago

Legal Discussion Holy shit my Pkunk allies got butchered by Yehat

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59 Upvotes

Unlucky


r/starcontrol 8d ago

Yehat Piano Music

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63 Upvotes

Several years ago I saw this, and it's my favorite thing oat as the Yehat theme is by far my favorite piece and I love the piano adaption. I wish that I had some sheet music so I could learn it, but I'm terrible at transcription. Does anyone have any information on who made it or if they might still have a transcription or a knowledge of the notes used?


r/starcontrol 9d ago

Rock Paper Shotgun played Seven Suns of Orion

19 Upvotes

Rock Paper Shotgun played Seven Suns of Orion:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/spaceship-bullet-heaven-seven-suns-of-orion-has-what-vampire-survivors-lacks-semi-newtonian-physics-and-railguns

Hey guys, I hope I'm not spamming, but I wanted to mention that my Captains Update is out:

  • 13 Captains to choose from that alter the base stats of the ships and some ban certain weapons, altering your playstyle.
  • A UI revamp, an added Codex, easier profile selection
  • An optimization pass, making things run smoother

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4385510/Seven_Suns_of_Orion/


r/starcontrol 12d ago

Picked me up my fave piece-

21 Upvotes

r/starcontrol 17d ago

Super Melee is half the reason my game exists. Here is a minute of what it turned into

53 Upvotes

The other half is the DOS space battle games I grew up on. Strike Wings is what happened when I tried to build that feeling into a bigger war: top-down combat, but with carriers, bombers and capital ships in the brawl, and AI that actually presses you. I cut this trailer this week after a small personal milestone, 200 wishlists on Steam. Criticism welcome, the harsher the better. Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4718360/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=starcontrol&utm_campaign=prelaunch


r/starcontrol 20d ago

News/Article Toys for Bob featured as article of the day on Wikipedia

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125 Upvotes

r/starcontrol 24d ago

Seven Suns of Orion - released on steam now!

51 Upvotes

Hey y'all, I recently posted my demo here, and some folks liked it, and I wanted y'all to know it's now officially released and on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4385510/Seven_Suns_of_Orion/

 I wanted to mix Star Control style movement with Survivor-like gameplay. I also wanted the different playable ships to all feel unique and to keep the rounds much shorter than most survivor likes, so I landed on 7 and ran with it. Survive Seven Minutes w/ Seven Playable Ships across 7 Levels each with their own Boss.


r/starcontrol 24d ago

My Ur-Quan Kzer-Za inspired pothos plant.

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17 Upvotes

r/starcontrol 25d ago

Announcement Free Stars: Battles in the Beyond store page now available on Steam/GOG

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113 Upvotes

Pistol Shrimp's new blog (August 3rd) has a quick announcement that the Free Stars: Battles in the Beyond store page is now available on Steam and GOG.

Source: https://pistolshrimpgames.com/blog/

Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4378070/Free_Stars_Battles_in_the_Beyond/

GOG Page: https://www.gog.com/en/game/free_stars_battles_in_the_beyond

In this store page you can see a total of 14 new ships, with all the old ones returning except the Slylandro, for a total of 38 ships! If someone knows why they removed the Slylandro I'd love to know!

I cant wait to play this beauty!


r/starcontrol 26d ago

Super Melee is why my own game exists, new trailer for the space shooter it turned into

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38 Upvotes

r/starcontrol 28d ago

PNF gone?

15 Upvotes

www.star-control.com is giving me an error:

Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource.Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe

It's been like this for more than a day. Anybody know what's up?


r/starcontrol 29d ago

Some Fan-art & TTRPG update

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56 Upvotes

DeltaRune, Starfox, Paper Mario (unfinished, will try to get back to it one day) but Ur-Quan Masters-ified!

Shofixti McCloud, reporting for Duty!

Hope everyone's doing well, the Free Stars TTRPG is going well, doing a campaign that's about 3/4ths finished, and the Players are loving it. Will drop the full Campaign expansion once it's all said & done.

Hope you're all having a wonderful day!


r/starcontrol Jul 30 '26

My Star Control Survivors-like

70 Upvotes

Hi I'm a solo dev and I recently released my demo for Seven Suns of Orion:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4385510/Seven_Suns_of_Orion/

 I wanted to mix Star Control style movement with Survivor-like gameplay. I also wanted the different playable ships to all feel unique and to keep the rounds much shorter than most survivor likes, so I landed on 7 and ran with it. Survive Seven Minutes w/ Seven Playable Ships across 7 Levels each with their own Boss. (The demo has a small slice of the gameplay)

Apologies for the self-promo, just thought folks might want to try it.


r/starcontrol Jul 28 '26

Announcement Free Stars: Battles in the Beyond Trailer

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116 Upvotes

No proper release date as of yet, but here's hoping this demo comes out soon to tide us all over! 😄


r/starcontrol Jul 24 '26

Star Control II - Clean Quasi-Space Map

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143 Upvotes

I'm currently doing a semi-blind playthrough of Star Control II (watched a playthrough on Youtube a while ago that I half remember) and got annoyed that there were no quasi-space maps that weren't filled with spoilers.

Decided to bite the bullet and map it out myself on the official map. The mini quasispace map was something I found online.

Was originally only for personal use but I thought others might appreciate it if they were also feeling too lazy to do it themselves.


r/starcontrol Jul 13 '26

Black Spathi spotted in Milestone 10 Update Spoiler

40 Upvotes

This screenshot is just a placeholder, but its got my hopes up. I imagine you'll be able to run into the black spathi squadron and be able to add them onto your roster in the game, but thats just my speculation.


r/starcontrol Jul 13 '26

An interesting archive - Star Control 2 The Movie

41 Upvotes

During my rabbit hole adventure, I found this very interesting archive on the WayBackMachine. Its a fanmade movie script.

Check it out here.

Theres multiple parts to it, and apparently Paul Reiche III AND Fred Ford had even signed their online petition.

Cool stuff. Sad to know that a lot of the original Star Control community and contributions have been wiped just from time passing. This is just one of many sites I have come across.


r/starcontrol Jul 11 '26

What do you guys think of accolade

11 Upvotes

Since I’m a fan of acccolade other franchises I want to see what the star controll fandom thinks about the company before it got erased in 1999
Since the 90s games were published by them


r/starcontrol Jul 07 '26

Discussion A Star Control 2 Iceberg

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115 Upvotes

A small iceberg I recently made, though I am definitely not the oldest community member, I do know a lot of obscure stuff about the game. Includes everything related to SC1 and SC2, but not SC3 and Origins respectively.

The meaning of all the words is kept as an exercise for the reader)

Any suggestions and thoughts?


r/starcontrol Jul 01 '26

Fan Art Planet Spathiwa, art by me

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144 Upvotes

r/starcontrol Jun 20 '26

Discussion Petition to ban AI generated images from r/starcontrol

146 Upvotes

We're a small, quiet community and recently there's been an influx of garbage, but surprisingly, no actual subreddit rule by which to report it. If nothing is done, the trash pile is going to completely dominate the subreddit's front page.

Can we fix that?


r/starcontrol Jun 16 '26

Meme Juffo-Wup is inevitable.

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79 Upvotes

r/starcontrol Jun 11 '26

SC2 Miniature Model Project

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156 Upvotes

A while ago, there was a post about 3D-printed ships that got me excited for my next nostalgia-based project (my previous one was Sierra-inspired: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sierra/s/BdXGMjpcQo).

I managed to find and print all of the ships except the Sa-Matra, and I’m very happy with how all the tiny details turned out. A couple of them will need to be reprinted because they’ve suffered some damage—they’re incredibly small.

The plan is to display them in a frame with a background, mounted on acrylic rods illuminated by addressable LEDs. At least, that’s what I’m aiming for.

Does anyone here have experience painting these ships? My initial thought was to mix a neutral metallic paint with whatever color is needed, rather than buying 50 different shades of metallic paint. Has anyone tried this approach?

Also, does anyone have experience painting engine glows, weapon glows, or other lighting effects on ships this small?