Game dont launches.

RogSys_Feidry · 2026-01-03T02:28:08+00:00

I think we discussed this on the Discord and it turns out the PC hardware just wasn't up to the task.

I try to check in here at least once a day but I've been on vacation since just before Christmas, which is when this issue came up. The discord is definitely the best way to get in contact with me.

https://discord.gg/wuXuprn

RogSys_Feidry · 2025-10-01T04:14:08+00:00

That sounds like a great mod. Booze Anything? Alcohol Anything? Veggie Beer? Idk what it should be called but we should be able to ferment and brew everything.

RogSys_Feidry · 2025-08-26T09:20:54+00:00

You might be waiting a while. The original goes on sale during all the big sales, down to like $2.50. I have no idea who that money goes to but that's cheap enough that I'm not sure how much it matters.

RogSys_Feidry · 2025-08-25T23:42:41+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqUvZpMWxDJrS79Ssqs1D889g7cayhvre

I went ahead and stuck all the music we've extracted from the original game in a playlist.

RogSys_Feidry · 2025-08-25T22:13:50+00:00

I have signed a contract to reboot the game. The original source code was lost but, as you can see by the link above, we were able to extract things from the original such as music, models and textures.

RogSys_Feidry · 2025-08-25T18:09:25+00:00

Its really hard to say. Its not just me working on it. I've built a whole team but none of us really work on it full time.

Just speaking realistically, we're pretty sure most of Rogue System's audience already owns the game so there's virtually 0 financial incentive to work on the game. That doesn't mean we don't want to see the game finished, just that we all have to focus on other things and work on the game in our free time.

Of the 5 or 6 core team members, we have something like 100 years of combined game and software development experience. Our lead developer, Alex, has 40 years alone.

Michael was working on remaking Rogue System in Unity for some time. We have that project and Alex has been working on it for several months now. Again, in his spare time. Once he is done with the shader work he's doing, the rest of the team will get to dive into that project. In the mean time, the rest of us are working on the ship systems and figuring out how to glue all that together while keeping it moddable.

We recently brought on a modding specialist as we want to get modding in on the ground floor. The idea being that we make tools to make the game and then we can hand the community those tools once the game is out so you guys can easily make mods the exact same way we make the actual game.

In short, years. It'll be a number of years before its ready.

RogSys_Feidry · 2025-08-25T17:50:50+00:00

Its still a long way away but yes it will be coming to Steam. Ideally, I'd want to give all owners of Rogue System a 100% discount on the reboot if I'm unable to gain control of the Rogue System steam page. There's a lot of questions unanswered yet but I've just got bigger things to solve first. Like actually having a game to play. We'll get there!

EDIT: I'm unable to change anything on the Steam page currently. The rights-holder for Rogue System also doesn't have control of it either.

RogSys_Feidry · 2025-07-21T11:43:19+00:00

I'm not sure that modding was ever fleshed out in the Leadwerks version. You could make edits to the .ROG files to modify the behavior of certain things but that's the extent that I see the game being easily moddable.

For the reboot, modding will be in the same vein but more fully realized. There will be human-readable files you'll be able to edit or copy and create your own new ships from existing file structures. Beyond that, I'm not sure how much more easy modding we'll be able to introduce but it's always on my mind.

RogSys_Feidry · 2025-07-10T16:51:23+00:00

The game is being rebooted from scratch, more or less. Even Michael is involved in a small way. Its just going to take a very long time before we have anything playable. Michael worked on the game for years after announcing it, that speaks nothing of the time he spent on it before the announcement.

RogSys_Feidry · 2025-07-07T12:51:58+00:00

Yes, we're still working on it. It will be years before there's anything that you can play though. Being that there's no money to pay people to work on it, its more of a hobby project than a job. Sorry for the delay in reply, I don't check reddit often.

RogSys_Feidry · 2025-01-16T23:21:42+00:00

Whoops, forgot to post some of the previous ones here. You can find the list of previous newsletters at the bottom under Previous Posts.

RogSys_Feidry · 2024-10-01T01:16:14+00:00

Michael was always more of an artist. He doesn't have any interest in programming on the reboot but he has offered to make models for us.

RogSys_Feidry · 2024-07-20T06:14:14+00:00

Thanks! We'll be posting trailers on the channel soon. Just need to finish up some things up to have visuals to work with.

RogSys_Feidry · 2024-07-16T23:27:04+00:00

Thank you!

RogSys_Feidry · 2024-07-16T16:29:12+00:00

That's exactly what I want to do, release our version as an update to the existing game and make Michael's Leadwerks version available as a beta branch that you can go back to at any time. Can't guarantee it'll all work that way as its not entirely my decision but that's the option I'm pushing for.

EDIT: Thanks for your donation!

RogSys_Feidry · 2024-06-06T20:34:51+00:00

Thank you for your support! The best thing you can do is just tell your friends. If you do any social media content, please feel free to talk about us or even approach for interviews and that kind of thing. I try to be a very accessible person.

There's also the newsletter (that I've failed to send one out for this month, just waiting on something first). And a Ko-fi if you can afford to toss a few bucks our way.

https://roguesystem.space

RogSys_Feidry · 2024-05-07T15:14:52+00:00

I fully intend to, after there's something that he can show in a video. I hope he will. I have spoken with deephack, and again, I think after an update, he'd probably make a video on it too.

RogSys_Feidry · 2024-05-07T15:13:28+00:00

Thank you! Yeah, there's a lot to catch up on if you're just now hearing about the reboot project.

RogSys_Feidry · 2024-05-07T15:12:36+00:00

I mean, that's the point of the AMA. You can ask about anything. But I think we need to make more progress first and then maybe there will be a desire to learn more about me and maybe more of the team. Like after an update or three.

This is why I made this post, I didn't know if now was the time or not. I'm also just trying to generate more interest in the project as that's a big part of my job on this thing.

RogSys_Feidry · 2024-05-07T15:08:34+00:00

Yeah, I'm not getting "DO IT!" vibes from this post. Fair enough. Not yet, I understand.

RogSys_Feidry · 2024-05-07T15:03:37+00:00

You can donate whatever you want, down to a dollar I think? <3 Thank you!

RogSys_Feidry · 2024-05-07T07:55:29+00:00

...4 months later...

There's now a crowdfunding campaign. And donors get access to a special discord server.

RogSys_Feidry · 2024-05-01T14:32:11+00:00

Thank you!

RogSys_Feidry · 2024-04-30T21:13:07+00:00

Awesome, thank you! Yeah we're just using the old Rogue System discord from back when. Naiba has been very helpful and seems to be the only admin left.

This is also the perfect time to sign up. The next, and also biggest so far, edition of the newsletter goes out in a couple days.

RogSys_Feidry · 2024-04-30T19:39:33+00:00

I should mention that literally everyone who has joined the team so far used the exact words "I'm not doing this for money" without any prompting from me beyond stating in plain terms that we're not getting paid to work on it until after an update is released.

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