Star Story remake has been released in beta.

A few beta notes though:

1. "Confusion" will not yet work. This will be implemented later. All attempt to confuse characters (either you trying to confuse the enemy or the enemy trying this with you) will for now miss.

2. The transfer app is not yet ready. I must still look at this when I got more time, but with The Fairy Tale and Star Story II on my tab, this is all a bit threatened to end up in lesser priority. This was never a promise anyway. Please note, the savegames are NOT compatible between the old and new version. The technical cores of both games are too much different for that.

3. Most bugs should be fixed now, but as I can never be sure, be sure to report them on my issue tracker when you still find any.

4. Game Jolt API is no longer supported. The ones listed on the page are nice for those who already had them. (The old version will also no longer support them, so don't even try using that).

5. Mac is no longer officially supported. If anyone wants to try to port the Apollo Engine used for this game to Mac, then be my guest, but I will not support this.

6. I hope I can soon start some investigation to support the game on Linux though, but no promises here.

7. Please note the old game did support 32bit machines, the new version is for 64bit only.

8. There are a few unexplainable slowdowns. If I can ever find out why this happens I will fix those if I can, but for now you'll have to grin and bear it. One of the secret floors in the final dungeon suffers most. That floor is optional though, but still.

Now the story line has been left the same, and the gameplay too is much the same as previously, but a few changes between the original and the new version need to be noted.

1. The new version features a new ARM for Crystal. The Water Gun. The reason this ARM didn't make it in the original game was simply that I forgot about it. Please note, Crystal requires all other ARMS before you can start the sidequest leading to her ultimate ARM. The Water Gun HAS BEEN included in this.

2. The Black Hole Dweller now only requires the second secret floor of the final dungeon to be completed. The checkups in the original game were already a bit unstable and I simply didn't want to waste my time to deal with all that... again.

3. Foxy will pick a random moment to teach Wendicka "Pickpocket" (when you talk to her on board the Hawk). She can do this at any time, however the higher Wendicka's level is, the more likely Foxy will do this. Please note, the dice deciding if Foxy will do this are ONLY loaded when the Hawk is being loaded, so keeping on asking her won't work. If you beam down to any planet and come back you may try this again. (You gotta work for it).

4. A few moves that I considered useless have been removed.

Well, and that's all I gotta say now. Enjoy this new version folks! In the meantime I'll work on The Fairy Tale and Star Story II. I hope I can open a page for the latter soon.