Coming to us by way of the beautiful Pacific Northwest is Daniel DiCicco head of Zer0sum Games and developer on the soon-to-be released 4x space sim, StarDrive. Daniel talks about how StarDrive was originally conceived, his take on the PC gaming industry, his Kickstarter campaign and much more.
Here is a glimpse:
What are your thoughts on how the PC gaming industry as a whole are dealing with the problem of intrusive DRM and piracy?
I don’t care about piracy. If people pirate my game, I’ll be proud, because it shows me that people want and like my game. Of course, I’d rather get paid for it, but I know that a pirate is going to pirate and that’s that. I can’t stop them and I’m not going to try. We’ll put a serial key on the software to make it harder, but I expect that will be cracked in short order.
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SegmentNext writes: "Space game StarDrive has issued an update for Patch 1.15 that will take care of some rather persistent issues. This strategic title on PC from publisher Iceberg Interactive is set in the 4X genre of galactic conquest."
A quest to touch the stars and expand your galactic empire is what awaits you in this space opera. You will take the role as leader of one of eight galactic super powers. The galaxy awaits your soft touch or iron fist.
You start off in your home solar system, given some resources and a flag ship. You must venture forth to expand your race at the dominant life, whether it be, trade or extermination. Each of the races have specific traits but can be modified on the new game screen. Each will define how you interact with the other races. You could have a small home world with a pack mentality or be alluring and ponderous or even repulsive and wasteful the decisions you choose are up to you and balance very nicely.
