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Today I\u2019m going to give you a tour of <\/span>Alcance de las estrellas<\/span><\/i>, the game. Like, the whole thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

By Raph Koster<\/em><\/p>\n

WHAT IS IT?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Alcance de las estrellas <\/span><\/i>is an MMORPG. It\u2019s not a small scale survival game, it\u2019s a game where thousands of players play together in a shared setting, a giant game with thousands of planets in a single galaxy. It\u2019s a game in which those players explore, settle on, and rule living alien worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n

WHO ARE YOU?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

You\u2019re a human \u2013 one of eight kinds (our hoped-for target at launch). Oh, some look like sasquatches and some like devils, some like merfolk and some like hairless apes, but they\u2019re all human in the end. And just as humans do, they\u2019ve all managed to ruin their homeworlds in a variety of ways. Just as it looked like the species was doomed, each of the eight were visited by mysterious robotic Servitors from space and given a second chance by being given access to the stars..<\/span><\/p>\n

You start out by selecting stats, of course. It\u2019s an RPG! You\u2019ve got three bars to worry about at the bottom of the screen: your health, your focus, and your stamina. Health is hit points, focus is basically sci-fi mana, and stamina is used for physical exertion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your character is made up of nine stats that you allocate at character creation, with names like Constitution, Agility, and Concentration. These come in sets of three, and ultimately determine how the three bars behave. If you want a lot of stamina, you probably want to allocate points into Fitness. If you would rather have a smaller bar but faster stamina regen, you would lean into Power instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

You can also customize your character visually. We plan to support height, weight, muscularity, gender, and all the usual ways of morphing your face and body to look unique.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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You\u2019re an emigrant, leaving your homeworld behind to head out into the larger galaxy, sponsored by the TransPlanetary League, a government formed by the eight types of humanity. They\u2019ll hand you a simple blaster, your chosen basic tools, and basic training before letting you loose in the galaxy to make a new life among the stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

WHAT\u2019S THAT GALAXY LIKE?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

We like to say, it\u2019s the most alive gameworld ever made. It\u2019s all simulated, and everything reacts as it should. Lakes freeze over in the winter. Trees grow, and propagate. Sometimes, forests burn down. Players can affect it all, too. They can dig holes in asteroids or drive creatures extinct. <\/span>You can watch an older video about that here<\/span><\/a> \u2013 sorry about the graphics, they\u2019re from a year ago, and the game doesn\u2019t look like that anymore!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

In most games of all sorts, but especially in MMOs, we have grown used to worlds crafted by designers that never change. In our game players change the world: they reshape the landscape, build whole cities, and yeah, probably ruin more planets just like humans ruined the original eight homeworlds. The land doesn\u2019t \u201cheal\u201d or pop back to its prior state, meaning that every choice made has real consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n

In <\/span>Alcance de las estrellas<\/span><\/i>, new space sectors and planets are discovered as the game runs. Old wormholes might collapse, leaving older sectors of space unreachable. The game map is always changing. This matters because every one of these planets has different creatures, different resources with different stats, and of course, varying environments driven by varying climates, gravity, season lengths, and so on. We lean towards hundreds or thousands of smaller planets and space sectors, rather than just a few really large ones.<\/span><\/p>\n

And both ground and space are <\/span>vivo<\/span><\/i> \u2013 not just with the simulation, but also with aliens everywhere. The mysterious tentacular hivemind called the Cornucopia throws spores down on unsuspecting planets and infests them with corruption. The robot Servitors roam the spaceways sternly monitoring for violations, and occasionally molecularly disassembling people. Rogue berserkers hide in asteroid fields and there are worms in the wormholes. Creatures fling balls of lava at you and blow craters in the ground. They spread and propagate across planets, and can invade your town unless you beat them back. You can even drive them extinct\u2026 and revive a species if you have their DNA.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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WHAT DO YOU DO?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Well, you want to make your mark in the galaxy! The game offers a lot of ways to play, because it\u2019s a true sandbox.<\/span><\/p>\n