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STELLAR JOCKEYS MAY NEWSLETTER
Welcome to the Stellar Jockeys newsletter for May. We've got some news,a brief retrospective, and your regular dose of community contributions.
Benjamin, Stellar Jockeys

The Blood Anniversary Update Is Coming

Brigador: Up-Armored Edition's birthday is in June, so we're celebratingwith a modest update to the game next week. Much like our last update in
December 2020, the update is going to a ect both the game's assets
pack le and reset the global.json to the intended state. If you have beenmodding your copy of the game, we strongly suggest you back up yourcopy so you don't lose any data changes you have made.
The update is scheduled to go live on Monday June 7th across all digital
storefronts and will feature new missions, playable vehicles, performance
improvements and many other things. Keep an eye on our Steam news
hub for a full post detailing everything.

Understanding The Brigador Journey: Names
Before we can talk about Brigador, we need to talk about the origins of thecompany itself and where its name even came from.
Back in the fall of 2009, at the University of Illinois, the second meeting ofACM GameBuilders was held wherein people could pitch game ideas. ACM
GameBuilders is a community of student game developers at theUniversity of Illinois and is a spin o of the ACM (or the Association forComputing Machinery) which has a number of chapters both across theUS and the rest of the world.
In attendance among others at this 2009 meeting were three people:
Hugh Monahan, Dale Kim and Harry Hsiao. The rst name you may
recognize, the other two you might not - both Dale & Harry were theoriginal engineers of Brigador's custom engine and were studying
Computer Science at the time. Hugh, meanwhile, was working at the highschool associated with the University of Illinois, which granted him
credentials to use academic facilities. Hugh was there to pitch - Dale andHarry were there to listen.
Reminiscing on the event, Dale explained that out of the majority of thepitches, Hugh's idea was not only clearly described but also actuallyachievable. A small group formed to work on the project for the rest of
the school year, culminating in them managing to show othe project atthe university's engineering student showcase event called Engineering
Open House. Given the team had managed to pull othe project, Harry,

Dale and Hugh realized they could probably make more games in thefuture, so they stayed in touch...
...But what even was that game? Unfortunately, we don't have any imagesof it. E ectively it was a clone of the original Star Control game from 1990.
The title of this student project? Stellar Jockeys.

Merch Store Shipping Rates Updated
As part of our ongoing spring cleaning, both domestic and international
shipping rates have been adjusted on our merchandise store to moreclosely match 2021's rates. In general this means that shipments to theUS, Canada, Australia and the EU will cost slightly more than before, while
fees to New Zealand and various overseas territories outside of Asia havebeen signi cantly reduced. If you have any questions about ordering
products from our store,
please get in touch by emailing
team@stellarjockeys.com.
Visit Store

Community Spotlight
Hugh kicks o this month's round up with their uplifting take on Kroenig,
who is proud of all your accomplishments, especially the following posts.

Charles-the-cat has recreated the Touro in, of all programs, 2008'sSpore....

...Lowkey Ops graced us with a delightful pixel art take on themongoose...

...and at this rate we're probably incapable of not including the latest workby Juntti, who took the "Think Mark" meme and applied it to Brigador togive us "Thinker From Volta".

As always, many more entries can be found in the #becks_best channel
on our Discord server.
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Next Month
With the update dropping in a week, we'll be occupied with the in ux ofcommunity newcomers and technical issues that come with them. Did wemention that it's Stellar Jockeys' 10th anniversary too?

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