{"id":10415,"date":"2014-01-06T11:57:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=10415"},"modified":"2014-01-06T18:04:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T23:04:24","slug":"predestination-in-march-3d-ship-designer-on-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/predestination-in-march-3d-ship-designer-on-kickstarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Predestination in March &#8211; 3D Ship Designer on Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/predestination_3D_ship_designer_kickstarter_large.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\" title=\"predestination_3D_ship_designer_kickstarter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10418\" title=\"predestination_3D_ship_designer_kickstarter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/predestination_3D_ship_designer_kickstarter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/predestination_3D_ship_designer_kickstarter.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/predestination_3D_ship_designer_kickstarter-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Space 4X game <a  title=\"Predestination | Turn-based space 4X game by Brain and Nerd\" href=\"http:\/\/predestinationgame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Predestination<\/a> is currently under beta testing and approaching final release. The four-stage beta started with the <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/predestination-beta-first-stage-begins-fleet-combat\/\" target=\"_blank\">fleet combat module<\/a> in September of last year with the\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/nyphur\/predestination-a-turn-based-space-4x-strategy-game\/posts\/647105\" target=\"_blank\">planetary exploration and colonization gameplay<\/a>\u00a0testing starting a month after. Two more beta stages are planned still; a galaxy-level gameplay testing phase and then a final stage with all three segments combined. At least that&#8217;s the plan according to Brain and Nerd&#8217;s CEO Brendan Drain, in our recent <a  title=\"Predestination interview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/checking-up-on-predestination-about-1-year-after-kickstarter\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the devs launch a <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/nyphur\/predestination-3d-ship-designer-a-turn-based-space\" target=\"_blank\">second Kickstarter<\/a>. The main reason for that seems to be twofold: to give people who missed the first Kickstarter a chance to get in, and to enhance the 3D ship design feature for which they got initial funds for from the Northern Ireland Arts Council.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have independently secured \u00a310,000 from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland to work on this 3D ship designer project. That budget is enough to complete the basic project, but we need your help to fund additional features and make it even better. -Brain and Nerd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/nyphur\/predestination-3d-ship-designer-a-turn-based-space\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, this is strictly a stretch goals <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/nyphur\/predestination-3d-ship-designer-a-turn-based-space\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a>. Their initial goal of $3,500, to implement racial ship designs, a ship refitting function\u00a0and an online designs sharing feature, is already secured. The first stretch goal of $5,000 was also achieved, and this unlocked a &#8220;mirror tool&#8221;, which facilitates symmetrical design. $8,000 unlocked space stations&#8217; design, and the currently open stretch goal left, for now, is $12,000 &#8211; Non-combat ship parts, with 24 days to go. They plan to define further stretch goals according to backers&#8217; suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re aiming for a March 2014 release, which should include the 3D ship designer already, but they reserve the possibility to slate that as a free update after release, if that happens to compromise the March release.<\/p>\n<p>They plan to go indie all the way (no publisher), so, they need help to get on popular digital stores in order to reach a bigger market. For that you can always visit and vote on their <a  href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=153761942\" target=\"_blank\">Greenlight page on Steam<\/a> or on their\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/wishlist\/games\/predestination\" target=\"_blank\">wishlist page on GOG<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space 4X game Predestination is approaching final release. But, there&#8217;s still room to improve their 3D ship designer feature for which the devs have opened a second Kickstarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[943,74],"tags":[86,1181,778,726,121,117,871,120,30,230],"class_list":["post-10415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kickstart","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-4x-game","tag-brain-and-nerd","tag-indie","tag-kickstarter","tag-multiplayer","tag-pc-game","tag-predestination","tag-single-player","tag-space-strategy-game","tag-turn-based-strategy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}