Stardock is planning to release 'Star Control: Origins' on Linux

I don't know if I'd say it's low on the list, it's after Mac and Windows, but before the gaming consoles! Star Control is a fantastic game, and it's about time a part 4 was released.

it's interesting to see Stardock warm up to linux. I hope this continues, even in other areas aside from games. their UX designs are nice and I've always thought they would be better suited for Linux than on Windows.

it's interesting to see Stardock warm up to linux. I hope this continues, even in other areas aside from games. their UX designs are nice and I've always thought they would be better suited for Linux than on Windows.

Yeah, some of their software seems to actually add thing s to Windows that Linux Desktop Environments have had for years.

Hmm , that trailer did not tell me much. Is it just a shoot-em up in space ? or is there more to it ?

SC is old DOS game(from time with Double Dragon, Bubble Bobble, Fatman, Digger and so on), now this is first time i see this game again, with improved graphics and for Linux.
The game is primary 1 vs 1 player. Every ship have different speed, shoot, missiles, special move. Some are tough and slow, some are fast and with low HP.
This game is reborn now, from long long time.

Hmm , that trailer did not tell me much. Is it just a shoot-em up in space ? or is there more to it ?

The trailer is specific for the "hypermelee" space battles only, that was the first feature "released" in the beta a few days ago. The game will have story and travel between the stars metting aliens like the previous Star Control games (though not the same as in the Ur Quan Masters SC2) and if attacked the combat will be 1:1 arcade shoot-em up that till one side runs out of ships.

The beta unlocks the Fleet Battles feature, where you'll assemble ships in a fleet and engage in battle with fleets controlled by either the computer, humans via the Internet, or even friends sitting at the same PC.

> This Preview Youtube Video has a bit of everything planned. Thougth it dosn't show much of the galaxy map or interaction with the species. You can also see videos from earlier games.

Also here is the schedule :

• ...


• 3Q2017: Custom Ship design implemented (just now)


• 4Q2017: Super Melee BETA! / Stellar Crafter built.


• 1Q2018: World Crafter built / Adventure Mode built


• 2Q2018: TBD

Also it is worth to see their FAQ if you want to know more.


Last edited by nullzero on 19 Nov 2017 at 1:41 pm UTC

SC is old DOS game(from time with Double Dragon, Bubble Bobble, Fatman, Digger and so on), now this is first time i see this game again, with improved graphics and for Linux.
The game is primary 1 vs 1 player. Every ship have different speed, shoot, missiles, special move. Some are tough and slow, some are fast and with low HP.
This game is reborn now, from long long time.

Ha, definitely is not THAT old. It came out in 1990 (Double Dragon was released in 1987, and Bubble Bobble in 1986), was created by the same team that did Archon. It's sort of similar to that, in that you have various aliens that you can battle against each other.

The second Star Control is where it was at. You had the Melee mode, that was in the first one, but then you had a sort of RPG thrown in, that was somewhat similar to Star Flight (Another great game that is dying for a sequel). Star Control 3 was regarded as a broken release, where it was buggy and frustrating and lead to a lot of people hating it.

You can play Star Control 2 in Linux natively via the Urquan Masters source port. http://sc2.sourceforge.net/


Last edited by slaapliedje on 19 Nov 2017 at 3:36 pm UTC

Big fan of the original Star Control games. Both the Melee Combat game, and the Space Adventure. In Star Control Melee Combat, used to select a small fleet with a friend. And then play each ship one at a time, against the friend, until one or other of you ran out of ships. Fantastic competitive arcade action. Very old-skool play - both using half of the same keyboard.

Added this new game to my Wishlist.

I played Star Control 2 back when . . . I couldn't believe it when I realized I could play it as Ur-Quan Masters on Linux (for free yet!) Such a great game. SC3 was actually pretty good IMO. Guess I didn't run into many of the bugs. Hmmm, wonder how that would go on Wine these days, I should dig up my copy.

I hope Stardock is keeping GOG in mind, because I'm looking forward to both Ashes and this.

I played Star Control 2 back when . . . I couldn't believe it when I realized I could play it as Ur-Quan Masters on Linux (for free yet!) Such a great game. SC3 was actually pretty good IMO. Guess I didn't run into many of the bugs. Hmmm, wonder how that would go on Wine these days, I should dig up my copy.

I'm now trying to remember if it was SC3 had weak story line? I just remember that most didn't like it. I don't think I ever played the third one, which I think was only released on Windows. Ha, I thought I'd played SC2 on the Genesis, but it looks like only the first one was released for that. Seems you can play SC2 on Android as well.

it's interesting to see Stardock warm up to linux. I hope this continues, even in other areas aside from games. their UX designs are nice and I've always thought they would be better suited for Linux than on Windows.

Yeah, some of their software seems to actually add thing s to Windows that Linux Desktop Environments have had for years.

this is true, but it never hurts to have fresh ideas and development going on within Linux as far as DE/UX goes. they could design their own tablet and/or console system and push their own interface that could work for steam and other types of gaming like using a translation layer for android for linux (much like anbox but that idea can be refined a lot still), overall it could help GNU/Linux as a whole, if it were ever made open source. pave their own way so to speak, by making a true user friendly Linux system for home users.

but not to many companies are willing to take radical leaps anymore. to much pressure from MS to keep things in their court. although if no one else does, then Google will simply run away with it all eventually.

I just tried Star Control Origins on wine (GNU/Linux Arch) and it runs successfully. Fleet battles was the only available option on my beta (GOG). What I noticed is that the ships and some asteroids in space appeared with pink just outlined items. However I have slow integrated only Intel 5000 and the game wasn't running good at all. At least I'm positive it runs on wine. :) I used wine version 2.21 (Staging).

I was a big fan of the developer stardock , back when I was making my switch to the gnu-linux desktop. Not only was stardock not publishing games for linux, but they seemed angrily against the linux desktop usage. They were still publishing windows os gui widgets back then. I would be a considerable turn to see them supporting a stardock linux-build.

I was a big fan of the developer stardock , back when I was making my switch to the gnu-linux desktop. Not only was stardock not publishing games for linux, but they seemed angrily against the linux desktop usage. They were still publishing windows os gui widgets back then. I would be a considerable turn to see them supporting a stardock linux-build.

Of course they were, Window Blinds was one of their most popular pieces of software, and it added to Windows what most Desktop Environments on Linux had natively. I mean how many of their themes were based upon Enlightenment themes?