Starship Simulator Community

NOTICE: This page is a Work in Progress as much of the lore/Development for the game is yet to be established.

Starship Simulator Community

The Starship Simulator Community comprises the players, supporters, testers, and fans actively engaged with the development and discussion surrounding Starship Simulator. Fleetyard Studios maintains an open development approach, fostering significant interaction and involvement from its community members.

Platforms

The community primarily gathers and interacts on several key platforms:

• Discord: The Starship Simulator Discord Server serves as the central hub. It hosts developer announcements, general discussion, feedback channels, multiplayer group finding, technical support (including help with Dev Build key activation), and private channels for backers with Dev Build access. Both Dan Govier and Claire Govier are active on the server.
• Steam Community Hub: Public discussion forums for feedback, questions, and sharing experiences related to the game and demo.
• Reddit: The Reddit (r/StarshipSimulator subreddit) provides another venue for discussion, sharing content, and news.
• Wiki: This community-driven wiki aims to collate information about the game, its mechanics, lore, and development.
• Social Media: Official updates are also posted on platforms like X (Formerly Twitter), Facebook, managed by Claire Govier.

Developer Interaction

Fleetyard Studios actively engages with its community:

• Developer Live Streams: Dan Govier hosts bi-weekly live streams on YouTube, showcasing live development, discussing features, and answering questions directly from the chat.
• Open Development: The studio shares progress frequently through dev build updates, social media posts, and Discord announcements.
• Community Management: Claire Govier acts as the primary liaison, managing social media and interacting with community members, particularly on Discord.

Community Involvement & Impact

The community plays a direct role in the game's development and ecosystem:

• Funding: The game's initial development push was significantly boosted by a successful Kickstarter Campaign. Ongoing support via platforms like Ko-fi directly contributes to development, enabling the planned Free-to-Play model for the base game.
• Testing & Feedback: Supporters with access to Dev Builds provide crucial feedback, bug reports (often via the official Mantis bug tracker or Discord), and stress testing, directly influencing refinement and feature development.
• Content Contribution: Certain Kickstarter backer tiers allowed supporters to directly contribute creative elements, such as designing specific star systems or alien races to be included in the game's galaxy.
• Mapping Projects: The developers have encouraged community efforts to map the vast 1:1 scale Milky Way galaxy, leveraging the consistent procedural generation across all players.
• Modding: While official modding tools are a distant goal (potentially a mission/story creator via Steam Workshop), the developers have stated they do not object to unofficial, tasteful modding efforts by the community, provided they don't infringe on IP.
• Content Creation: Community members contribute significantly through Let's Plays, tutorials, reviews, discussions, and guides shared on platforms like YouTube, Twitch, Reddit, and blogs.

Getting Involved

Players interested in joining the community can typically engage via:

• Joining the Official Discord Server
• Participating in the Links#Steam Steam Community Hub
• Joining the r/StarshipSimulator Subreddit
• Contributing to this wiki.
• Supporting the project via Ko-fi.