New Project! Arth's Ark: The Flux Voyagers Project (SF3 Resurrection)
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 11:40 pm
Just thought I'd let you all know about an interesting event that has occurred over on the official SF3 Discord. Brian Linton (Linternet) the original project leader of the FAN made Starflight 3 - Mysteries of the Universe project in the early 2000s (who got the project closer to a complete game then any of the rebuilds that followed) has expressed regret over his part in the failure all those years ago and has declared a strong interest in bringing the old project back to life (but probably under a different name since we've got an official SF3 in the making these days). I know what you're all thinking as we've had 20 years of false promises on that fan project so if anyone posts negative comments on this I won't hold it against you lol. As for me I will wish them luck, offer any old project files they need and watch with interest. If you once worked on the SF3 fan project with Brian or in one of the later teams you may wish to get in touch with him over on the official SF3 Discord.
Copy of Brian's announcement:
Linternet — 19/02/2021
So. My failure to complete the Starflight 3 project way back in the early 00’s has been bothering me for about 17 years now. I failed both the amazingly talented people who worked super hard on it and the Starflight community.
I am SUPER glad that Greg Johnson and the epic team at Humanature have continued to show interest and I look forward to one day seeing a complete Starflight 3!
I, however, am going to make up for my failure in the best way I can by making a Starflight fan game unless Humanature and/or Rod McConnell have an issue with it (In which case it will be an original game influenced strongly by Starflight.
I will share more details in the fan-games-and-mods section in the coming days, but I learned a lot from my original run on the project and have twelve years of game industry experience since then to draw from. I’ll earn back the trust of this community by delivering.
The reason I’m posting here now is that while I have not yet found my old files I’d like to use as many assets from there as possible. However, since people donated their work to “The Starflight 3 Project” which no longer exists (and Starflight 3 is now in the right hands) I will not use any assets without explicit permission from those who created them.
So if you’re on this chat and you worked on The Starflight 3 project from 1997-2005 please send me a direct message here.
Thanks!
Copy of Brian's announcement:
Linternet — 19/02/2021
So. My failure to complete the Starflight 3 project way back in the early 00’s has been bothering me for about 17 years now. I failed both the amazingly talented people who worked super hard on it and the Starflight community.
I am SUPER glad that Greg Johnson and the epic team at Humanature have continued to show interest and I look forward to one day seeing a complete Starflight 3!
I, however, am going to make up for my failure in the best way I can by making a Starflight fan game unless Humanature and/or Rod McConnell have an issue with it (In which case it will be an original game influenced strongly by Starflight.
I will share more details in the fan-games-and-mods section in the coming days, but I learned a lot from my original run on the project and have twelve years of game industry experience since then to draw from. I’ll earn back the trust of this community by delivering.
The reason I’m posting here now is that while I have not yet found my old files I’d like to use as many assets from there as possible. However, since people donated their work to “The Starflight 3 Project” which no longer exists (and Starflight 3 is now in the right hands) I will not use any assets without explicit permission from those who created them.
So if you’re on this chat and you worked on The Starflight 3 project from 1997-2005 please send me a direct message here.
Thanks!