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Eden Star Now Available on Steam Early Access!

30th January 2015

Eden Star is Now Available on Steam Early Access!

Welcome to Pharus 7 Pioneers,

2015 is an exciting year for us, it is also exciting for all those who have followed and pre-ordered the game so far through our site. As explained in our previous blog, unfortunately we will no longer be taking purchases of the game through the Humble Widget. We will however now be offering through Steam Early Access. Also all the people who already bought the game through our Humble Widget will receive Steam Keys in the coming days.

For those who are unfamiliar with early access process it is really simple. The earlier you buy the game the cheaper it will be. You will get our super shiny Pre-Alpha, and all subsequent builds we push out all the way up to final release.

We’ve had some amazing feedback off our Humble backers so far. We can only thank you for your patience and support over the last year. It really has been humbling, pun very much intended, to hear all your feedback and we are taking it all in board as we look to the future of Eden Star.

If you wish to purchase the game go to our store page on steam here:
Steam Store Page

You can read more information about our Early Access plans and builds here:
Steam Community Discussions

Also if you want to keep up to date with our road map for the future, you can head on over to our Trello board to see, and talk about, all the shiny features coming in the future here:
Public Trello Board

Note: There is NO save system in v.0.0.1

We’ve also released our launch trailer, if you missed it, or perhaps just fancy a cheeky second watch. You can watch it here:

Our focus will now be firmly set on making the game as brilliant as possible, realising the full design, and taking on board all of the communities input and feedback throughout the entirety of the Early Access process.

So, with the build now ready, we hope you enjoy it, albeit in an early state! Now it would seem there is only one question Pioneer.
How long can you survive on Pharus 7?

Early Access Release Date!

27th January 2015

Welcome Pioneers (The faithful amazing people you are!),

Today we are delighted to announce our target release date for the Eden Star Early Access Pre-Alpha build v0.0.1.

On Friday January 30th the build will be uploaded to Steam.

To all of you that have supported us to date via Humble, the purchase widget on the Eden Star website has been temporarily removed from the site and we have an email going out to you early next week (we just need to update a few item descriptions this weekend, then compile, test and upload the build to Humble!) informing you that you will now have exclusive access to the build prior to the 30th.

In addition, we will also be sending our early backers an “Art of Eden Star v0.1” PDF book to download as a small thank you for being the first to believe in the project, this will also be distributed via Humble.

The team at the Flix have been hard at work these past few weeks, fixing issues, polishing the basic level and stomping on those pesky bugs.

So, a massive thanks for your time, support and patience. Stay awesome!

GDC and EGX Rezzed announcement

21st March 2014

Greetings!

We’re announcing today that we’ll be showing at EGX Rezzed at the NEC arena, Birmingham from the 28th to 30th March! If you’re around, come along and play the Pre-alpha demo, and let us sign your forehead / sign our foreheads!

GDC 2014

I’m sure that a lot of you reading this have been massively excited by all the news coming from GDC 2014 in San Francisco! Those of us back in the UK are loving reading about all this cool stuff as it comes out, while busily working on Eden Star!

John (CEO) and Matt (Art Director) are actually at GDC now, hard at work showing our Pre-Alpha demo and talking to other developers, technology experts, journalists, and game tech enthusiasts. Ironically, because they’re so busy at the stand, those of us in the UK are probably more up-to-date with GDC news than they are! Poor Matt and John.

So what’s been happening at GDC?

We were pleased to see Virtual Reality being a strong theme, and were impressed by Oculus’ new Rift devkit, and Sony’s Morpheus HMD! There are many more hopefuls in the VR space, and this will hopefully keep the market competitive, and drive the development of better, cheaper VR hardware, and a greater number of game titles developed for VR!

Unreal 4 was released to the public! We have had a great time seeing what it’s capable of over the last few months, and give our sincere thanks to Epic for their amazing support and for developing such an amazing Engine.

An honourable mention must be made for Unity 5! The improvements in lighting, shading, UI and sound mastering look truly amazing. It’s an exciting time to be in the Games industry!

Microsoft and Xbox One have stepped up again, and are showing their support for Indie teams by releasing 25 more Indie titles via the Xbox One Marketplace.

And Matt and John have also been lucky enough to attend the première of Valves new documentary movie Free to Play, now available on YouTube!

And here’s a shot of the theatre it was presented in. Very nice.

EGX Rezzed

EGX Rezzed is brought to you by the team behind EGX London (formerly Eurogamer Expo). The show floor will be rammed with all manner of playable games and other game related features and attractions. In previous years the event has had a distinctly PC & indie game flavour, however, for 2014 the show has been expanded to include next gen consoles.

We will be at Stand #11 on the show floor, and will be giving attendees a hands-on demonstration of the Eden Star Pre-alpha Tech Demo. We may even have a cheeky surprise in store for everyone who comes to see us at the stand! As this is our home event we felt we should treat the people of our hometown to a little something special.

One more thing! Last week we posted a PFX blog, and we had a few replies asking for a video or gif! Marcin has very kindly obliged!

Stay tuned for further news!

Eden Star

Welcome Pioneer…