The Starry Expanse

New Site!

cho102997 — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:55:29 +0000

Well, we’ve officially outgrown this space and decided that it was time to migrate to a new one. We will no longer post updates or renders to this site. However, you can continue to follow the saga that is the development of the Starry Expanse Project at our shiny new website,

www.starryexpanse.com!

See you there!

Philanthropy

cho102997 — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:16:36 +0000

Do you love this project? If so, you can show your love by donating a dollar or two (it’s easy). The Starry Expanse Donation fund is used sparingly by our team to purchase necessary (and only necessary) materials, such as soundfonts (so we can recreate Riven-appropriate music) and sound effects or textures that we ourselves are not in a position to record or photograph.

Just think about it: if four people donate two dollars of spare change, we can afford to buy our most-needed soundfont. You are one of those four people.

Note I

cho102997 — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:17:34 +0000

For those of you who haven’t seen, we’ve started another twitter feed that displays SVN commit summaries at @SECommits.

Render XXIV

cho102997 — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 06:31:38 +0000

Render XXIII

cho102997 — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:20:20 +0000

Render XXII

cho102997 — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:24:41 +0000

Beta Again

cho102997 — Sun, 09 May 2010 02:31:56 +0000

Well, we kind of hoped that allowing beta signups to go through only for a limited time would raise hype and that people would sign up for beta like, as soon as they could.

Turns out that wasn’t the case. Despite our weirdly gigantic spikes in unique visitor counts each time we posted something containing the word “beta,” we only got around ten beta testing applications.

So! We’ve decided to re-open the beta test signup process until we get more beta signups than we know what to do with (note: this doesn’t mean we won’t be checking for quality in your application). At our previous rate of beta signup, that would’ve happened around year 2121, so let’s hope we get some more signups quicker this time. ;-) Beta is officially open again!

Here is the signup page. If you find out who we are (not that hard) please don’t tell anyone. Thanks!

Video II

cho102997 — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 02:55:48 +0000

Render XX & XXI

cho102997 — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:05:57 +0000

Here are some more renders we had sitting around. Note the first was taken because of color issues.

Long-Overdue Update I

cho102997 — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:40:27 +0000

Not that you all would give up hope, being URU fans, but the project (we’d like to assert) is not dead. We are simply taken yet another one of our long and unannounced hiatuses* while we deal with school-related issues and ponder the meaning of our lives. Soon we’ll come to the ultimate realization (as we always do) that the way we can maximize the significances of our existences is by working on the Starry Expanse Project, and when that happens, the project will resume.
* Not hiati; we looked it up.

Also, we’re currently in great need for a character artist, a person with a lot of 3D Studio Max experience and a skill for passing on knowledge, and a texture artist with a particular skill for mapping the danged pictures.

So that’s it from the Starry Expanse… sorry to not bring any earth- or Riven-shattering news, but since you all deserve it for your enduring patience, here’s a pastry of sorts: .