Starside Weekly – 5.30.2025

Your weekly update on Stars Reach

• Better Homes & Gardens Update is the current update
  
• Full version patch notes: https://starsreach.com/build-notes/
  

• At last week’s GameBeat Summit 2025, Playable Worlds President & Co-founder Eric Goldberg teamed up with celebrated games exec and VC Mitch Lasky to present some thoughts on how industry folks should navigate our “new normal.” You can see the recording, never intended for gamers, here:
  

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We interviewed Playable Worlds Vice President Niina Fujioka on her role at Playable Worlds, her path to working in gaming, and advice on starting your own company:
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• Join the Moderation team: we are recruiting more moderators to join us as we ramp up to 24/7 operation. If you are interested, send us an email about yourself and your experience with moderation to [email protected]. We especially need folks in Asia/Pacific time zones.
  
• Backer Invites + Discord Backer Badge. Almost all of the backers have submitted their survey, but if you haven’t then search your email box. If you submitted your Backer Surveys before May 6th:
  
  • New testers got an invite from FirstLook with a playtest schedule and instructions. (Check your spam folder if you don’t see it!)
    
  • Existing testers will not get a new invite, your Discord role should now show a Backer badge. Not yet? Log into FirstLook.gg and synch.
    
  • Can’t find it? Email [email protected]
• Kickstarter late pledges are still available but this may wind down soon: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/starsreach/stars-reach
  
• Check out our Web Store! https://starsreach.com/store/
  
• We also have late pledges available on payment plans at our store