Rising Star 2 News

[p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink]I'm just waiting for the translations to be delivered, and then you'll be able to bring your band to the land of the sun![/p]

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[p]I recently came across the original CD-ROM in which artist Hugh Jamieson delivered the original Shady O'Grady's™ Rising Star cover art. It's dated 9/22/05, which means as of two days ago it's been 20 years since he created this cover art. However, the game itself wasn't released for another year and a half.[/p][p]Nowadays many people would probably look at this and say it's AI art (I get a lot of that lately - check out the Shrouded Aspect discussions), but this clearly pre-dates AI-generated images. It was done digitally, though I can't confirm what program he used.[/p][p]I've never actually met Hugh in person. I found him on deviantart.com and sent him a message. He was nice enough to cut me a good deal on this custom work, because he liked the project.[/p][p]Apparently, Hugh is still at it, creating cool art. Check out Hugh's web site https://hughjamiesonart.com/[/p][p]
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• Adjusted logic for finding touring bands, allowing touring bands to be found when player band popularity is less than 1.0.

August 26, 2025

• Fixed bug that happened if pressing a keyboard shortcut to view a band member during the landscaping or busking cutscene.
  
• Fixed bug that could erroneously show an extra travel day for flying to a city when you should arrive the same day.
  
• Clarify gig pay between band share and manager share in gig results.
  
• Middle mouse button now acts the same as left mouse button to mouse-look in first-person modes.