Anyone get into the beta program? Just curious how early in development they are.

After some debate, we may proceed with a Star Control "inspired" game that takes place in a separate universe. This way we do have flexibility with the story and there's less legal issues to be concerned over. Thanks for everyone's input!

Thank you everyone for your thoughts! I will consider all of this in the next few days. 

Depending on the level-of-blessing, we will most likely be going with a free-to-play model so there isn't any immediate concerns in that regards.

Hah, yes, each of us have 10 years. We have enough manpower and know-how to remake the original Star Control 2 (or 3)  if we wanted. I will try to get into  contact with Toys For Bob soon, but I wanted to get everyone's current opinion first. We have lots of exciting ideas for expanding the gameplay if we can get the greenlight!

A fairly large group of programmers here in Michigan with over 10 years of professional game programming experience are looking at producing a marketed spin-off "inspired" game from the Star Control universe. We want to get feedback from you, the community, to see the level of interest for such a product, and while this would not be part of the official franchise, we are hoping to get Toys for Bob's blessing on the project. Also, does anyone know if we would be able to use information like races, story, and items from the game without legal issues? Obviously we would not directly use any direct content like images, music, etc for our project.