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Draginol's Articles for November, 2017
November 14, 2017 by Draginol
From the people who brought you Fences, Start8, ObjectDock, DeskScapes, and countless other amazing programs comes a new one that will transform the way you use your PC: Groupy. At any given moment, people have a lot of windows open.  Maybe it's a few Explorer windows, a couple of Excel spreadsheets, maybe a a Word document or a PowerPoint presentation.  Maybe they're working with Adobe Premiere and After Effects and a few other windows.  In any event, dealing with all t...
November 28, 2017 by Draginol
Winter is coming.  And so is Galactic Civilizations III v2.7.  This version has been in the works for a long time as a general, all around, polish pass on everything in the game.   New Data Manager This is a boring feature that most people won't care about, but for those of you who have a lot of custom civilizations, you will find game load times to be much faster.  This is because the data management used to be handled by an external proce...
November 14, 2017 by Draginol
Players have been contributing questions to the Lore Google doc .  There is a lot even we don't know yet about this universe.  It's a strange, complicated and ancient place and many of those who do know are not very cooperative with us for various reasons including excuses like "You're just meat" (whatever that means) and "Seriously, you're just meat". So let's go over what we do know as of November 14, 2087. [POSSIBLE MINOR SPOILERS] A few assumptions about you If you...
November 10, 2017 by Draginol
It has been over 20 years since the last Star Control game was released.  Today, we open up Beta 1 of Star Control: Origins in the form of Star Control: Origins - Fleet Battles. While the main game of Star Control is about exploring the galaxy, meeting various aliens, investigating strange new worlds all within a living universe, we also include a combat mini-game that we call Fleet Battles.  In Fleet battles, you assemble a fleet from a group of ships and then engage in battle with...
November 6, 2017 by Draginol
Greetings! Beta 1 is fast approaching and we want to give you a tentative schedule of what to expect. BETA 1: November 16 This is the Super-Melee beta. Super-Melee is a ship vs. ship combat game. In it, you assemble a fleet of ships. You have a total of 100 points to use for your fleet with ships costing between 5 and 20 points depending on the ship. You will be able to battle against the computer with various difficulty level or against other players via the Internet in eit...