{"id":2264,"date":"2010-05-31T13:49:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T12:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2011-03-17T12:48:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T12:48:05","slug":"star-legacy-%e2%80%93-new-4x-sci-fi-game-announced-by-shrapnel-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/star-legacy-%e2%80%93-new-4x-sci-fi-game-announced-by-shrapnel-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Legacy \u2013 New 4X Sci-Fi Game Announced by Shrapnel Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Shrapnel Games announces the next great epic science-fiction strategy game, Star Legacy! This game is being developed by the Star Legacy Development Group, and scheduled for release on late 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Star Legacy is promised to be a feature-rich 4x game being designed from scratch. The game is targeted to answer the simple question: &#8220;what would the ultimate sci-fi 4X game include?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Turn-Based with Multiplayer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Star Legacy will be an open-ended turn-based game. As in all good <a  title=\"4x Games Definition\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/what-are-4x-games-definition-and-comprehensive-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">4X<\/a> (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) titles it promises to offer a full range of choices: spaceship design, research new technologies, colonize new worlds. The game will offer multiplayer, although its exact form is still being worked out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>High Modability, not only graphics but almost anything else<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Graphics will be 2D, and the developers promise that anyone will be allowed to modify the visuals without the need of specialized software or knowledge. The developers also promise high modability to allow players to easily mod not only the graphics in Star Legacy but also everything else since most files will be XML based and can be altered with a simple text editor. With this players will have extreme freedom to shape the game as they see fit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">By default the game will offer between 12 and 15 alien races and also pirates, which the player can also decide to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>About the Star Legacy Development Group<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Star Legacy Development Group is a start up development team consisting of eleven members from around the world. Bringing a range of various skills to the table from digital art to scripting to programming all members are experienced modders and die hard fans of the turn based 4X space strategy genre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Star Legacy News and Discussion at Shrapnel Games Forums<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Check out the <a  title=\"Shrapnel Games\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shrapnelgames.com\" target=\"_blank\">Shrapnel Games<\/a> website for the latest news. To discuss Star Legacy go to the <a  title=\"Star Legacy Discussion Forum\" href=\"http:\/\/forum.shrapnelgames.com\/forumdisplay.php?f=224\" target=\"_blank\">Star Legacy forum<\/a> hosted by Shrapnel Games. I&#8217;ll keep you updated about this title. As soon as there is more information and some screenshots I&#8217;ll post it here at SpaceSector.com, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shrapnel Games announces the next great epic science-fiction strategy game, Star Legacy! This game is being developed by the Star Legacy Development Group, and scheduled for release on late 2011. <\/p>\n<p>Star Legacy is promised to be a feature-rich 4x game being designed from scratch. The game is targeted to answer the simple question: &#8220;what would the ultimate sci-fi 4X game include?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Turn-Based with Multiplayer<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Star Legacy will be an open-ended turn-based game. As in all good 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) titles it promises to offer<\/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":[70,74],"tags":[86,80,218,117,217,219,192,115],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-under-development","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-4x-game","tag-announcement","tag-moddable","tag-pc-game","tag-shrapnel-games","tag-star-legacy","tag-tbs","tag-under-development"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","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=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}