Valheim Creator Jonathan Smårs Announces Solo Space Survival Game Starpath
Smårs, a core Valheim developer, is striking out on his own with a hard sci-fi survival game that trades Norse mythology for realistic space physics and solo development.
Reporting from 1 sources: 4Gamer.net.
Jonathan Smårs, lead engineer and designer of Valheim, announced Starpath, a space open-world survival game he is developing alone. A playable demo debuted at BitSummit PUNCH. The game emphasizes realistic space physics and building, with a retro low-poly style. Smårs said he wanted to create something more personal than Valheim.
At BitSummit PUNCH, Jonathan Smårs showed a playable demo of Starpath, a space open-world survival game he is building alone. The demo starts the player in a spaceship cockpit with no clear objective, then guides them through repairing a hull breach via extravehicular activity. Smårs, who served as lead engineer and designer on Valheim, told 4Gamer that Starpath is a more personal project: "I wanted to create something more personal and original-that was a big motivation." The game uses low-poly graphics but aims for a realistic sense of space, including silence during spacewalks and inertia-based movement. Smårs said the current build focuses on exploration, material collection, and base building, with story logs on floppy disks scattered through the environment. No release window has been announced.
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