Star Corsairs
What an indie MMO dev should be careful about SWTOR
Dec 16th
This is my answer to Beau Hindman article named What F2P and indie games can learn from SWTOR. To be fair to Beau maybe I shouldn’t call myself an indie MMO developer. Maybe I should say I’m some kind of Rambo MMO developer. He’s doing a great job to talk about indie and lesser know [...]
Try Star Corsairs without creating an account
Nov 19th
The new tutorial allowing you to try Star Corsairs without creating an account is now live!
Having some form of guest gameplay wasn’t quite easy to add but might be required for the time Star Corsairs will be released on Flash portals. It’s not much an issue for portals like Kongregate who have their own built-in [...]
A look on Star Corsairs launch – Part 2
Nov 7th
It seems that some people misread a bit what I was saying in part 1. Let’s say it’s my fault and failed to properly express myself so here are some clarifications.
Going back to a day job is a matter of bank account
Not because I think the situation is hopeless. Yes I took the decision 2 [...]
A look on Star Corsairs launch – No more a full-time indie
Nov 5th
Well to start with I went full-time indie because I lost my job in June and decided to use this opportunity to develop a new game. Was I really thinking that I could in just 5 months complete a new game and make a living out of it? I would lie if I’d say yes [...]
MMO bootstrapping – Low population issue
Nov 1st
So what challenges offers an MMO with a low population? Here we go.
Feedback, communication, flooding
To make sure the game is on rails I try to be present as much as I can to players. It means frequent forums posting, jumping in-game to have a chat and answering bug reports (which most of them are questions [...]
So who should I contact next?
Oct 27th
So you will find below a list of websites/people I contacted about Star Corsairs. Mails sent contained links to screenshots, trailer, media kit, press release, etc.
I’m sure my list is far from complete but that’s the list I got so far. I basically went through websites that mentioned Golemizer before, websites that covered other indie [...]
Official release of MMO game Star Corsairs!
Oct 17th
Today is the day! I’m quite excited to finally invite everyone to check this new MMO of mine here: www.starcorsairs.com
I’d like to thank everyone who supported me in this project and specially the first players who helped me to improve Star Corsairs to make it to this day.
But this is only the beginning! Of course [...]
Early access release of Star Corsairs!
Oct 6th
No more data reset! Time to play! Go here: www.starcorsairs.com
But wait!… What does early access release means? Let me explain a bit.
Soft launch
It means that now it’s the real deal but that I am not yet sending a press release, contacting bloggers and other MMOG websites. You can play for real, buy Illium (in-game currency), become [...]
Support an indie MMO by naming an in-game star: 7 stars in 48 hours!
Oct 3rd
This weekend I launched a crowd funding campaign to help me finish the last phase of development of my indie MMO Star Corsairs. For a small donation (or bigger if you wish) you get to name a star that will be visible to everyone in the game.
So far 7 stars have been named in the [...]
Looking for your first impression about Star Corsairs (help!)
Sep 21st
This is the last call before release… I guess. I can’t say when release will be but I’m really close of the beta release. Right now what’s “delaying” the release is mostly all the stuff I must write, people I must contact, screenshots to take, ads I must build, etc.
But the other thing holding me [...]
