Latest News from Infinite Space
Get Weird Worlds at GamersGate!
Attention all nebula dwellers: Digital Eel is pleased as Plutonian punch to announce that Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space for Windows is now available from GamersGate -and it’s on sale at 25% off for one week beginning today, May 27!
View the game page here, and look for more Digital Eel games at GamersGate in the future.
The Sea of Stars Kickstarter campaign is coming to a close, and we’re happy to have surpassed our funding goal by a healthy margin. While we didn’t quite reach our stretch goals, the response our project received from all of you has been great even after we hit the initial target of $30,000!
We would like to thank all those who pledged their support. You will soon receive a survey to fill in details such as how you want your rewards delivered. We are now going to go full steam ahead and make Sea of Stars the best possible experience we can.
We would also like to thank the following people and websites for publicizing our project and helping others find out about it, greatly contributing to our success:
Gamepolitics.com and James Fudge
Ohmwrecker AKA The Masked Gamer
Brian and Jim from Space Game Junkie (Listen to podcast interview with Iikka and Rich)
Finally, we’d like to extend our enduring gratitude to Kevin Matheny and John Slade, Fearless Testers Union #256. They will be instrumental in guaranteeing the quality of our game, as they have been since our first releases in 2001.
Future updates and announcements about Sea of Stars will be posted here at the Infinite Space website
Infinite Space 3: Sea of Stars Funded
We’re very happy to announce that Infinite Space 3: Sea of Stars is officially funded. Over 1400 space-happy gamers have generously pledged their support. (Now, on to the stretch goals!) As promised, we’re spilling the beans on our mystery team. Check out update #6 for more details.
Digital Eel meets Space Game Junkie
SGJ Podcast #10: Infinite Spaces and Small Worlds - Jim and Brian of Space Game Junkie got Skypy with Iikka and Rich of Digital Eel to talk about space games, space games and more space games, from Starflight to FTL. A brief history of Digital Eel was discussed including a few words about Bill Sears as well as chat about Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space and the new Kickstarter campaign to fund Infinite Space 3: Sea of Stars. Space game geeks (like us) take notice. Obscura is pondered. (Whatever that means.) Secrets are revealed! So turn on, tune in, listen online or download.
Infinite Space 3: Sea of Stars Announced
Digital Eel is proud to announce our new Infinite Space computer game, Sea of Stars! We are currently looking to raise funds for its development through a Kickstarter campaign.
Sea of Stars
is a single-player science fiction roguelike similar to Strange Adventures and Weird Worlds. Turn-based star map navigation is combined with a real-time combat system. The game provides a randomly generated open world for you to explore, and will only reveal a fraction of its secrets each time you play. There is no going back to a saved game – everything that happens is permanent. Death is frequent, but only makes you want to try again.
Although Sea of Stars builds on the universe you visited in the earlier games, it is expanded with fresh new material and gameplay. Discovering the interactions between items, alien races, characters and random events will keep you busy for years – yet each session of the game is a complete adventure that you can finish in one sitting. To extend the game’s longevity even further, we encourage people to make mods and even provide tools for it!
Read more here and pledge your support at Kickstarter!
Mid-March? Hey! It’s time for the Steam Indie Spring Sale celebrating the 15th Annual Independent Games Festival and featuring past IGF award winning indie games. Among them you’ll find Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space which won the 2006 IGF award for music and sound. It’s on sale too, continuing the 25% off discount offered during its recent Steam debut. Additionally, Digital Eel’s Data Jammers: FasfForward and Brainpipe: A Plunge to Unhumanity, itself an IGF award winner, are on sale on Steam as well, and both at a 75% off discount, WOW! Mark your calendar because the Steam Indie Spring Sale ends on March 29.
Weird Worlds for Android Released by UK Partners, Astraware
We’re very happy to announce that Astraware has just released Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space for Android. Wait a sec. Astraware? Infinite Space? Android? This is the perfect combination! You can get all of the details from the Weird Worlds page on the Astraware website.
Weird Worlds is Live on Steam!
It’s official. Weird Worlds is available on Steam…right now! Go see!
Weird Worlds on Steam March 19th
You asked for it. You got it! Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space will soon be available on Steam! Its debut date is (drum roll) March 19th (cymbal crash!) so mark it on the calendar and watch the skies here, the Weird Worlds Facebook page or Digital Eel for more news and a direct link to Weird Worlds on Steam!
Just in from the Purple Nebula: It’s PAX East time and Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space will be there. Where’s there, when and who? Boston, MA from March 22nd to the 24th, and the who is IndieGameStand, the grooviest new no-DRM name-your-own-price game portal. They’re featuring Weird Worlds at the show along with 11 other socko indie games: Gimbal, Cognition, Gnomoria, Recruits, Aztaka, Space Pirates and Zombies, Doom & Destiny, Krunch, Reprisal, Super Tower Rush and MegaByte Punch! You can read more from SeattlePI here. Visit the Penny Arcade Expo East website here.