UMBCast 016 - Star Control

The time has come for episode 16 where I cover the great 1990 game series from Toys for Bob, Star Control. Before I even get to the news, a small program note: From now on, the show will be releasing on Sundays instead of Thursday as it has been in the past. Housekeeping aside, news time! Hero-U, the new game project from Lori and Corey Cole, creators of Quest for Glory now has an active kickstarter! If you want to give to this project, go check out their page. Big news over at GoG.com, they have released over 50 games with native mac support! OSX-ers rejoice! The developer of Boxer, who is working with them also posted a great article talking details of his work. Finally, SimCity 5 now has a release date! After an email, we get to the main topic, the great Star Control series. I cover all the usual suspects for the first two games in the set. We end off with an email and a cool look into the lego community with a set of Star Control ships competing to be made into a real licensed lego set! If you want to see these happen put in your vote. Buy Star Control on GoG: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/star_control_1_2/ Get the open source Ur-Quan Masters: http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ Check out Project 6014: http://code.google.com/p/project6014/