Flatspace News

Hello everyone,

I'm happy to say that the Taskforce store is now live. So excited about this game, have been working on it constantly for several weeks now and it's playing really well. Here is a look at the store and some clips of the game in action:

Taskforce: The Mutants of October Morgane:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1291150/Taskforce_The_Mutants_of_October_Morgane/

Taskforce will also be my first game with a published book, the printed manual will be sold on Amazon, a 60+ page guide filled with how to play the game, with all of the game details you'll need to enjoy the game, point lists, controls, weapons list and tactical hints.

Mark

Hello everyone,

The third Flatspace IIk Music Pack will be released in one week! Like any in-game music for Flatspace, these will trigger at random when you enter a new sector. This will probably be the final music pack. Collect all three to own the ultimate version of Flatspace.

The original Music Pack 3 for Flatspace II was released in 2013. Some of these pieces of music are included here too, but I also wanted to include some recent music to evoke feelings of space at the end of time; feelings of awe and coldness, silver, and darkness.

The music in this pack includes:

-Adrift In Flat Space.
An original track for this Music Pack, this track is an essentially solo-piano improvisation on the Flatspace theme

-Jellyfish.
A tune full of energy and melody.

-Paragon
Paragon is one of the final tracks from one of my earliest albums, Animalia. The music was inspired by Darwinian genetics, the ladder of species.

-Race The Sky
A supremely happy track was inspired by console racing games.

-Requiem For A Million Skin Cells
Composed in 2017 for the album Cycles & Shadows, this
brooding piano track originally began with a droned speech
about the ageing process

-The Dying Of The Stars
A new track for this music pack, I wanted to include music that had a naturalistic feeling, that could evoke the beauty and mystery of outer space.

-The Race
A fast and happy electronic tune, inspired by both console
game music and J.S. Bach!

-Tiny Moon
A simple piece of music.

-Waiting For The Rain To End
A brooding and slightly melancholic piece of music
composed in 2009 for my album The Twelve Seasons.

Flatspace Music Pack 3:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1020380/Flatspace_IIk_Music_Pack_3/

Mark

Hello everyone,

I'm happy to announce that our next release will be Taskforce: The Mutants of October Morgane. Taskforce is a turn-based squad-level strategy game; think of games like X-COM or the WarHammer turn-based games. I developed Taskforce originally in 2004, and unlike Flatspace, this is a genre I've been working on for many years.

Taskforce is the 4th game of this type I've created since 1994, the first Taskforce game was on Amiga back then, then came Hilt II, then Arcangel in 1999.

Keep in touch for news on this release, which will probably be in late summer. Meanwhile, here is an image of the game in development; team TF1 ready for equipment in Taskforce H.Q.



Mark

Hello everyone,

The two Official Soundtrack albums for Flatspace were released today!

Flatspace (The Official Soundtrack) is the original soundtrack album sold on CD back in the early days of Flatspace. Two bonus tracks that didn't make it into the final release of the game are included here, as well as the full 4th and 5th movements from the 2002 version of The Spiral Staircase.

Most of the tracks here on Flatspace II (The Official Soundtrack) are either new releases or new versions: the original intro to the game appears here, a re-recording of Mariner and the 7th Bell, as well as the vocal version of Ultramarine sung by Tor James Faulkner. New tracks include Black Hole, Flatrunner and Waiting For C-Major.

See the store pages for a full track list:

Flatspace (The Official Soundtrack):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1235660/Flatspace_The_Official_Soundtrack/

Flatspace II (The Official Soundtrack):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1235670/Flatspace_II_The_Official_Soundtrack/

Enjoy listening.

Mark

Hello everyone,

The two Official Soundtrack albums for Flatspace are coming soon to Steam.

Flatspace (The Official Soundtrack) is the original soundtrack album sold on CD back in the early days of Flatspace. Only a handful of CD-R copies were ever sold, these are valuable if you have one.

Flatspace II (The Official Soundtrack) was originally released in 2012 and includes alternative mixes of the music in the game, plus extra tracks including the 6 minute version of Journey Through Fractional Space; which was commissioned by a Flatspace fan.

Both albums will be released on March 27th. See the store pages for a full track list:

Flatspace (The Official Soundtrack):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1235660/Flatspace_The_Official_Soundtrack/

Flatspace II (The Official Soundtrack):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1235670/Flatspace_II_The_Official_Soundtrack/

Enjoy listening.

Mark