{"id":8568,"date":"2013-03-11T07:41:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T11:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=8568"},"modified":"2013-03-12T08:44:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T12:44:23","slug":"stardrive-open-beta-now-available-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/stardrive-open-beta-now-available-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"StarDrive Open Beta Now Available on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"StarDrive<\/p>\n

StarDrive is now available for pre-purchase on Steam<\/a> as open beta. StarDrive’s open beta model follows on the footsteps of games like Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion and others, where the player may participate in the game’s beta phase and help report bugs and propose enhancements by pre-purchasing the game, usually at a lower price than when the game is officially released, 17% off in this case. The game is expected to release officially on April 19th, at least according to Steam.<\/p>\n

StarDrive is a real-time 4X space strategy game with a particular focus on modular ship design and an interesting twist which allows you to command any ship of your empire in a “WASD” faction, therefore the “action-strategy”\u00a0label.<\/p>\n

StarDrive was developed by Daniel DiCicco, a\u00a0lawyer\u00a0who has decided at some point of his life\u00a0 that what he really wanted to do was to develop a space-based game, and in particular a space 4X game.<\/p>\n

\"StarDrive<\/p>\n

Dan succeeded on\u00a0Kickstarter<\/a>\u00a0and not long after that he signed a publishing deal with Iceberg Interactive. Now Dan is one step closer on achieving his dream. In Dan’s own words:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve gone from the guy with the dream to a guy with a game.\u201d. You’re really very close now Dan. I wish you a nice and\u00a0fruitful beta, now with much more feedback\u00a0to digest.<\/p>\n

To know more about StarDrive check our interview<\/a> with Daniel. If you want to read it from the publisher’s perspective, have a look at our interview<\/a> with Iceberg Interactive, which also includes some StarDrive talk.<\/p>\n

Our last StarDrive preview<\/a> dates back from August 2012, but we’ll have an updated version up very<\/em> shortly. So, stay tuned for that!<\/p>\n

Here’s the beta launch trailer.<\/p>\n