A lot of fans on the board enjoy playing “spot the tribute name”! Actually a good clue to some of the SotSverse influences can be found in names of stars in the game. Speaking for myself here, most of my space opera influences range from the 60s, 70s and 80s, (Asimov, Saberhagen, Silverberg, Laumer, Haldeman, Cook, Brin amongst many, many others) with a l’il Babylon 5 and Space Above and Beyond thrown in for good measure. Banks was much of an influence on either myself or Arinn Dembo, who is the real genius behind both the name of this expansion and much of the SotS universe itself. Banks novel – does The Sword of the Stars universe draw on his stuff at all, or are there other influences? On the eve of second expansion A Murder Of Crow's release, we had a chat with CEO and Lead Designer Martin Cirulis about Kerberos' past, present and future - including some first details on their next two games, RPG Northstar and the splendidly-named Fort Zombie.Ī Murder of Crows is a great name for a sci-fi game. The first opus from Kerberos Productions, risen out of the ashes of Barking Dog - responsible for Homeworld: Cataclysm and eventually folded into Rockstar Vancouuver - it's picked up the sort of deeply passionate following you so often get with deep and complex space-games. To those in the know, Sword of the Stars was expertly and epically doing the space 4x thing long before Sins of a Solar Empire sauntered onto the scene last year.
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