Changes to Project 9 (Patreon)

Greetings everyone! First an apology, you'll have noticed we've been quite quiet since the release of Sunrider 4 and its following patches. This downtime has been used with a dual purpose in that team members have been taking a break following another successful release thanks to all of your support as well as various bits of housekeeping we've been planning to do or pushing back on. That said with today's post we can now confirm we're back into full active development as well as after a long process of evaluating the release of Sunrider 4, we are eager to share a bit of news to our Patrons regarding our next Sunrider release.

Our next release as project 9 will be Sunrider Legends, a spin-off reimagining of Sunrider 1: First Arrival and Sunrider 2: Mask of Arcadius, set in an all-new fantasy setting. In this new game, you will revisit the two classic games which made Love in Space into what it is today with new story content, modern gameplay, and an exciting new fantasy universe.

Features:

- Revisit two classic games but in a medieval fantasy universe. New fans will experience the beginning of Captain Shields’ story with modern graphics and gameplay while longtime fans can enjoy the new fantasy content.

- Strategic naval battles set in the dark age of sail. Wood will splinter to broadsides as sails are torn by wind. Sea currants will send ships astray.

- Battles get personal as the girls no longer have their mechs and instead must engage in hand-to-hand combat in decisive boarding actions to capture enemy ships to add them to your fleet.

- All new fantasy universe: The world of Sunrider is re-interpreted as a fantasy epic. The addition of new story content which adds new details to the story of the classic Sunrider games will give fans a deeper understanding of the lore.

As a result of this reveal we will also be updating our project schedule to represent Sunrider Legends moving into active development as project 9 or the next game we're looking to release, the release date for this being TBA. In addition Project Victory has been promoted to the 10th project to follow Legends while Project Wonderland has been demoted to the 11th project to follow Project Victory.

Our New Project Schedule:

- Project 9: Sunrider Legends (active)
- Project 10: Victory [code name] (on hold)
- Project 11: Wonderland [code name] (on hold)

We're nearly ready to start sharing some more of the visual content around Sunrider Legends with you all, but please bare with us a little longer.

We've also made the first round of revisions to the Patreon tiers in preparation for the newest project, this hopefully making them a bit clearer in the context of the development of the current game as well as aiming towards with future ones. While there may be further revisions still required a bit later on stemming from a few pending unconfirmed details, we'll make a new fresh announcement at this time to let you know what has changed so remember to keep an eye on your emails and notifications.