After this phase passes, I'll probably start playing something less aggravating. In my recent spare time (such as it is), I've been torturing myself by playing Starcraft 2. Oh, I'm terrible at this! My name is Alex Mosolov and I'm the lead developer/designer of Starsector. Hello, can you give us a short summary of yourself? i managed to catch Alex Mosolov, the lead developer and head of Fractal Softworks, the maker of Starsector, for a not-so-short interview on his thoughts about working as an indie developer and its inherent hardships and choices as well as rewards and experiences. This game was not Kickstarted or Indiegogo'd, it didn't have a huge marketing push or saturate the media with emails and with a small team of devs they managed to put out each major release as a completely playable and 'feeling-complete' game.ĭid i mention it's not even on Steam? Or any other digital distribution service for that matter?īut that's enough of my yapping. It's one of the very few that manages to keep my attention all through-out the foggy landscape of the game industry, but not just because it's a great game but because it manages to sustain its own development and maintain a consistent and involved community without any of the crutches that the current indie gaming sphere has begun to take for granted. It can be called "Mount & Blade in space", a game in the same vein as Escape Velocity, Star Control or SPAZ, or widening the net, Freelancer in 2D sprite glory if the other references fell short.
For me, that game is Starsector, an indie-developed role-playing, arcade-tactical, star-faring, 2D spaceship game.
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With games launching every day, both triple-A full releases and early access concepts, with Kickstarters to keep track of and various news flooding RSS feeds, it takes a lot for a game nowadays to lodge itself into our minds for more than a few months.
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