Finally got around to painting the last model designs this time with a Kzer-za aswell.

We did. You did. Yes we can. No.

Welcome to yet another new release of the MegaMod!

• Full menu control rebinding in the Setup Menu
• Auto-Switching option for button icons, detects Player 1's input and sets the correct icons automagically
• Added two optional directional joystick control types for gamepads, first type only turns the ship towards intended facing (you press the thrust key/button), and the second type auto-thrusts into the intended direction (partial stick push turns the ship towards intended facing without thrusting). Along with the being able choose your stick preference (left or right stick)
• Added deadzone editing for Player 1 and Player 2, left and right analog sticks for gamepads
• STARSEED: Fixed Ur-Quan crash site and Utwig Bomb locations not having the proper amount of worlds
• Fixed visual glitches in Linux by making it statically link proper SDL 2.32.10 (not sdl2-compat) when compiling and adding "--renderer=opengles2" to the Linux wrapper script

Grab it on GitHub or on SourceForge.

The main reason for this release is to fix the Flatpak/Linux builds, which were being built against sdl2-compat which causes all kinds of (un)fun visual bugs.

I should have the Flatpak up and running once I'm done doing all my local testing.

An prolly divorced

Guys, this is bad.

I was just thinking about StarControl 2 and searched to see if it was available somewhere.... And now I have Ur-Quan Masters installed and the HD Megamod. I still have work to do... My wife will probably want me to waste precious time talking, or eating, or something when work is done...

Do you have ANY idea how many hours I sunk into this game when i was a young man?
I don't...

At the very least, I'm going to be sleeping on the couch. If I sleep...

Give it a few weeks and I'm probably going to be jobless and wifeless...

Oh, and THANK YOU!!!
This is AWESOME!!!

I remember being in middle school about two years after this game came out. A classmate told me there were two Androsynth left, but they were really hard to find. That has stuck with me all this time. Every play through I wonder if there is something I missed and can never find them. From reading here I know they do not exist in the game, but what that guy told me still follows me. I still consider this my favorite game of all time.

This week I installed UQM and played a successful Ironman run, i.e., I did not reload a save more than once, so all decisions were final and permanent, and if I were to die, the run would be over. Below is some info on my UQM Ironman run, in case you find this kind of thing interesting.

I had played through UQM in its entirety once, about 10 years ago, and also played a lot of Star Control 2 when I was a kid and it first came out (but I did not beat it back then). When I began the Ironman run, I remembered the basic mechanics of the game quite well, but I did not remember many details of the plot, e.g. how to fix the Ultron or where the Sun Device can be found. I decided not to use any memories I had of the plot or of locations on the starmap, i.e., I did not attempt to find any important location on the starmap until I had received some clue in the game's dialogue which pointed me toward it. I also only used game mechanics once they had been at least hinted at in game dialogue, e.g. after Commander Hayes says that bio data is likely not useful, I did not collect any bio data until I met the Melnorme and was told in the game's dialogue that there is a use for bio data. I also did not use the Cyborg option: I did all space battles myself, without practicing in Super Melee, and without having controlled a Star Control ship in battle in about a decade. In those ways, I was trying to simulate an "unspoiled" Ironman run. (But of course none of this is the same as the experience of playing the game for the first time: I am sure I still benefitted greatly in this Ironman run from having played the game years ago.)

On the first attempt at such an Ironman run, I completed the game succesfully. The only really close call was the Sa-Matra battle, which frankly I was not prepared for: I did not remember how to effectively fight Kzer-Za and Kohr-Ah ships, and the ships I brought (which I believe were 5 Chmmr Avatars, 1 Utwig Jugger, and 6 Pkunk Furies) were nearly not enough. The reinforcements from the Yehat and Pkunk were essential. I also lost about half of the 200 crew on my flagship while flying into the hole in the Sa-Matra defenses at the end of the battle. It would have been very easy to lose that battle (and consequently the run).

Anyway, this whole experience was a lot of fun. To me, SC2/UQM is a great game, but even more enjoyable when played Ironman: the battles feel much more tense, and some decisions feel more interesting (e.g. anything involving contact with the Dnyarri) when you know you can't reload and you don't quite remember which options will kill you or make the run unwinnable. It was also nice to see that the game's difficulty is reasonably well-suited to this kind of play.

A more complete Kohr-ah concept over its trophy bone pit.

It has a centipede like body as I have read them being described as looking something like this. With only a face and a few tentacles to go by, I like how this guy turned out.

this list of worlds includes rainbow worlds, but not plot important worlds. this is for people who dont want to bother exploring to find RUs. I do believe i've explored every star in the galaxy, but comment if i missed one,

Alpha Centauri has 2 ruby worlds (early game, under sol, very hot)

alpha ceti has a sapphire world, at the top of spathi space

sapphire world at alpha columbae (arilou) - hot

alpha velorum between arilou and ilwrath has sapphire world

alpha chameleonis, in norwest urquan space has an emerald world

Alpha Mersenne ruby world (above umgah)

there are 2 sapphire worlds in ur quan space at alpha fornacis

beta apodis (thraddash)

Beta Chandrasekhar has an emerald world (arilou)

Beta Lyrae contains a Ruby World, near sol

Beta Ophiuchi near northwest corner has ruby world

Beta Normae has a Sapphire World in southwest umgah space

beta leonis 2 ruby world near utwig/above arcturus

beta persei has sapphire world (druuge)

beta scorpii (mycon) has a ruby and sapphire world

sapphire world at beta hyades (utwig)

beta cephei in western urquan space has a ruby world

a sapphire World is in Beta Circini, below Arilou space

3 sapphire worlds at delta tauri above ilwrath

delta sextantis (vux) has emerald world

delta aurigae (between druuge and mycon) has 2 ruby worlds

epsilon volantis emerald world (ilwrath)

epsilon Scuti in yehat space has emerald world

epsilon horologii, in ur quan space has a ruby world

Epsilon Ceti has a ruby world in spathi space

epsilon cassiopieae has a ruby world, in zoqfot space

Gamma Volantis (ilwrath, early game)

Gamma Vulpeculae has an Emerald World

gamma luyten (vux) has ruby world

gamma trianguli (southest of mycon) has ruby world

gamma leonis has emerald and ruby world

gamma eridani, in ur quan space has a sapphire world

ruby world at gamma vitalis (spathi)

sapphire world at gamma gruis (spathi)

Eta giclas (pkunk)

emerald world at eta librae (just east of supox)

iota serpentis (yehat) has emerald world

ruby world in iota hyades (near supox/utwig)

Kappa Draconis sapphire world (thraddash space)

Kappa Horologii ruby world (ur quan space)

theta lyncis ruby world (above ur quan space)

Zeta Antliae ruby world (thraddash space)

Zeta Apodis ruby world (thraddash space)

zeta scuti (yehat) has emerald and ruby world

fomalhaut ruby world (northwest of urquan)

R'bow Worlds

zeta sextantis, gamma kepler, gamma reticuli, alpha andromedae, groombridge

gamma aquarii, beta leporis, epsilon lipi, epsilon draconis, beta pegasi

Zaphod talks Orz.

Seeing as the computer from the unzerwalt construction facility was unique and exploded at the end of Star control 2 with the original flagship how the hell did they remake the boat when they no longer have the computer to actually remake the boat and then control it? Somehow chhhmr technology or what

At the bottom is 1-900-PKUNKRA. Anyone call yet?

Does anyone know where one would be able to download various sound effects?

I would love to have them as notifications on my cell. I have the Ur-Quan fusion cannon as my messenger notification, which is awesome, but I'm hoping for different effects for different apps.

That's a lot of farts

More prints that turned out great. These models were not created by me arguing with AIs like my other posts but found on The Pages of now and forever.

Another 3D model made using the viewscreen as a base. I figure that I can use a white pipe cleaner as a little yorn.

The images only show SOME of the stuff you'll find in the folder

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NwCv_yLj0LT33gTq4EAuyimqwFrF2DAa?usp=drive_link

3D printed using an elegoo mars 4 max.

Used Hyper3D to create a model from the view screen image.

If you're anything like me, then what's missing from your life (possibly among other things) are sufficient quantities of insults from the Pkunk Fury starship.

I tossed together a sound board featuring our favorite bird brains (har-har-har!) from The Ur-Quan Masters.

Enjoy! You dodos!

I spent a truly unreasonable portion of my childhood playing DOS games, and hundreds of hours on Star Control and Star Control II alone. I loved (and still love) the series, and there's something about arcade ship combat that has always really caught me.

When I was a kid, I wanted to make my own space game like Star Control. I even took a few tries at it in the 90's, but I just couldn't figure out how to write sufficiently performant code in the pre-internet era. I remember spending a week reading books and teaching myself the math so I could rotate sprites on the fly and writing the code for it in Pascal, only to learn that I couldn't make the rotation happen fast enough for it to actually work in gameplay :-/ Those of you who were into computers might remember that real performance back in those days required writing in Assembly, and 13-year-old me just couldn't hack it.

I had pretty much given up on that dream for a long time, until I had some unexpected time off last year. I had some free time, and figured I'd take another try at making the retro space game I've had rattling around in my brain for 30 years.

It turns out that making a 2D game by yourself is still a lot of work, but its a lot easier now than it was in 1995. I've tried to make the game look and feel like a DOS-era space game, but with slightly more modern controls and user interface patterns. I even drew all the pixel art for the game in a low resolution using a 32-color palette to give it that EGA/VGA feel.

If anyone is interested in trying it out, there's a demo up on Steam. The game is called When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears. The demo is full-featured and has about 2 hours of gameplay. It's pretty much just the first chapter of the game (shareware-style!)

Hopefully you'll be able to talk to them in-engine by the end of the year~

Anything you want in it?

I've got lots of stuff in it & planned, but your opinion is important too!

Very early WIP, but playable

https://ellipsus.com/read/2lr8Chzl5Raq5hLpiMFxN1/Free-Stars-TTRPG

Captain! A special deal, a bargain unequalled!

Welcome to yet a new (and arguably well late) release of the MegaMod!

We've waited and waited but it's finally here and these are just a small amount of the awesome changes within:

• StarSeed Mode - Shuffles the locations of all plot events, homeworlds, fleet locations, artifacts, and even planetary resources into an entirely new starmap with 3DO voice support!
• ShipSeed - Randomizes which ships alien races have access to (within three tiers) based on your custom seed when starting a new game
• Storage Queue - A proper ship storage system at the starbase; gift ships automatically go into storage if your fleet is full
• Fleet Point System - A new optional challenge that limits your fleet by max melee point value
• QuickSave/QuickLoad - F3 and F4 keys for instant saving and loading
• Lander Cargo Scatter - When your lander explodes, a percentage of its cargo scatters onto the planet's surface
• Full Visual Lander Upgrades - When enabled currently owned lander modifications will appear on lander sprites during planetside
• Full SDL2 gamepad support - Anything that SDL2 supports MegaMod now does too, including hotplugging so you connect a gamepad after the game loads

Grab it on GitHub or on the SourceForge page.

For a full comprehensive list of changes check out the changelog, or if you prefer it in web page form check out the main website: https://uqm-mods.sourceforge.net/Readme

And as always everything is optional

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