So at current projections, we'll have enough money to make our planned expansion - and then we'll have to close down the studio as it'll just be too risky to pursue another project. That projection lands us some time in October-December we think. If you like the game, let folks know: write some reviews on Steam/GOG/GamersGate, shoot e-mails to your favorite news sources and let's players! Your opinions matter! Show folks there is room in the 4x corner for a game that dares to break away from the M...

I was nearing my Steam cloud save limit, so went through my list to see which games were taking up a considerable amount of space, and I noticed Star Ruler 2 saying that it was using up 142.54MB. Loading up the game, though, I just found a couple of old save files, and after deleting those, the cloud save listing didn't get affected at all. So what/where are these cloud saves, and how can I get rid of them? Normally, when you load up a game with Steam cloud saves enabled, if you're missing them, it'll j...

Hi everyone! It's been a few years now since Blind Mind Studios went inactive, so we figured if we're not doing anything with the code to SR2 we should just release it under an open source license. If anyone is interested in seeing how the engine works, or tweaking whatever, the code for SR2's StarFlare engine is now fully available at https://github.com/BlindMindStudios/StarRuler2-Source The repository includes build instructions for windows and linux, but no prebuilt binaries, this does mean everyone c...

Last night I hit 4,000 hours of playing Star Ruler 2 and I still cannot believe it. None of my other most played games come even close to this level..... so here's to 4,000 more!

A Brief Chronology In February 2017, Blind Mind Studios released their final patches for Star Ruler 2, v2.0.2 and v2.0.3. Fixing a number of issues that had cropped up since the release of the Wake of the Heralds expansion, it would be the studio's last official work on SR2, and the final act in its long-dreaded dissolution. (As early as April 2015 , they anticipated they would have to close down between October and ...