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View the full Outpost Luna tutorial on Youtube. This is very long and is the complete tutorial for game. When you play the game, you get to go through the tutorial and learn all the rules while playing an actual game.

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Outpost Luna Released

Outpost Luna, a captivating strategy resource card game with local play or multiplayer options via GameCenter, is now available in the App Store.

The Earth Federation has decided it is time to colonize the distant Outpost Luna, and is offering incentives to companies to build cities there. Being the adventurous space entrepreneur that you are, you take the challenge to be the first company to build these cities.

In order to build those cities, your construction bots will first need to locate the most productive land, gather resources, use those resources to build factories, towers, and housing structures, and then build the cities according to city blueprints provided by the Federation. Each blueprint is accessible to all players, but can only be used once; so the race is on to see which company (player) will be first to meet the requirements of each blueprint. 

Does another company have some land and buildings that you would like? Producing a little gold can help you challenge another player’s bot in order to take the land by force.

Outpost Luna’s variety of strategic options will keep you coming back for more. It is an excellent two player game, with up to four players using Pass and Play or GameCenter.

Detailed rules are available online.

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Spaceward Ho! 1.2.4 Released on iOS

It fixes the following issues and adds some features. Thanks to everyone who has helped out by reporting issues.

Tap and Hold to Scrap a satellite

Fuel Status for the fleets

Fixed pathing bug where a ship could not be directed towards a planet, even though it could reach a colony and refuel for that planet. (Thanks to TimWB)

Fixed to work on iOS 4.3.x devices again (Thanks to Nacole)

Better text wrapping for messages

Double Tap on a Fleet will now bring up Organize Dialog

Added Facebook and Twitter

Updating iOS7 bugs

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Spaceward Ho! 1.2.3 Released

The new version for Spaceward Ho! is released on iOS. You can get the update now. It includes the following fixes:

Finally show damage to ships in Battles

Adjusting spacing of the planets and names on the iPad (Thanks Tim)

Fix the crash when scrapping a fleet by touching the fleet and then scrap (Thanks Andrew Diseker)

Fixing bad display of SparksMcGee (random characters and missing planet names) (Lots of people!)

In Build Screen, making the "Income" be "Savings" (Thanks @reppep)

As always, please rate and review the application again. And if you have an issue please send us a tweet or email us.

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Happy Birthday to Wil Wheaton! Turns out Wil is a fan of the original Spaceward Ho! We decided to add in a special star name, Sparks McGee and then also a special Sparks McGee styled hat designed by Paul Campbell. Be sure to play the game on Wil's birthday in order to see the special hat. It is currently available in Google Play and the current iOS will have it soon.

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Available on Android

In case you missed it, Spaceward Ho! is now available for iOS, and in Google Play for Android devices and on Amazon for Kindle Fire. 

Enjoy!

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Glad to see SH on iOS device. A suggestion: Since tech and planet adjustment bars are difficult to select and use (especially on an ipad mini), perhaps pop the panels open to adjust.

I think we will try to add something like that, since we have had a bunch of people say it is hard to use. Thanks for asking a question!

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New Update, 1.1.1

Here are the fixes to 1.1.1, thanks to everyone who submitted bugs and feature requests. We love getting to hear from you.

Moved the iPad fleet movement back to next to the planet

When dragging a fleet, you can see the fleet icon while dragging

Fix crashing on iPod Touch, related to memory issue.

Added in Arrows < > to the Build Ships and other sliders to make it easier to adjust

Redid Organize Fleet Buttons to match style

Aligned text in the Build Ships Class menu

Increased the size of the Evacuate Button

Double tap on a uncolonized planet to review the last battle at that location

Made the "Name a Star" really save out, and allow people to rename stars they might have missed

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There is a new way to abandon planets instead of selecting from the menu. First show the planets list, and select the planet you wish to abandon (a.k.a. evacuate) Then just click the crossed out Hat to the left of the planet name.

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The long awaited universal support for all iOS devices (iPhone/iPod/iPad including iPhone5 support) has arrived! Go get it now http://bit.ly/SpacewardHo  This update incldues Game Center support, with leader boards to see how you compare to the other players, updated user interface dialogs and screens (try out the new Build Ships dialog!) and many other improvements and fixes.

Please be sure to contact us directly to give your feedback and we will try to address it. Best way is twitter @SpacewardHo. Up next, multiplayer! The full set of features added for this version:

iPhone/iPod - universal support!!!!

iPhone5 support

Updated Icons and Dialogs, new buttons

Removed Mac ads, extra help messages (thanks to KentBunn) We didn't mean to leave these in, and now they are gone.

Double Tap the Message Report window to make all the messages go away

Fleet Movement - now there is a dialog to drag the fleets from instead of a list of names. Makes it much eas

Review Battle Dialog -- if you have too many fleets, you can now scroll up/down to see them all

New Planet Icons to help with fleet movement, organize fleets.

Evacuate Planet is now in the Planet List, Find the planet you wish to evacuate and select the button

New Graphics for the Year Numbers

Aligned and updated all the message icons

Planet selection icons

Completely updated Auto Play dialog (not as confusing anymore)

Completely updated Preferences Dialog

Completely New Build Ships Dialog, tap the Ship Type to create a new Maxed out Ship of that Type

As always, we want to hear from you.

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Still making progress on iPhone

We're working on the iPhone version. There are lots of changes to shrink the interface down to work on the small screen. Be sure to follow us on Twitter.

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The 1.0.3 version of Spaceward Ho! was released in the AppStore today. Go update and get the latest version.  The following are the changes for the game:

French translation! Yay for French! (Thanks to Jerome V. and Alan G. for the help) 

Once again, there is Hope is the Galaxy. See if you can evacuate it.

When you win and go up in rank (display the rank screens), and you can now name a planet

Add in the History Graphs. Now you can check your status with the other players

Newly built ships are yellow in color to identify them as new ships

Add completely redone "New Game" screen

Fixed: If you never deleted games, you could crash on the "Continue" Only display the last 20 games.

Fixed: Build ships after scrapping all fleets would crash, or any time you see the Planet(0) reported by so many people.

Fixed: Player surrenders had duplicate $$ (reported by tjdunnigan)

Fixed: Dip into savings a second time would give an invalid number

Save the Best Buddies State on the new Game Screen

Thanks to all the testers and feedback. Keep it coming! Please be sure to rate and review the game again!

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So what are these red clouds or whatever that appear around some stars? They look like the same formation that appears after a supernova, but what does it mean if it's just there without going supernova first?

Great question. As you can see in the screenshot on Spica, it has the red dust clouds. You are correct that it happens with a supernova, but it also happens if there was a "big battle" at that planet. The big battles involve lots of ships fighting it out, and afterwards there will be a red cloud that slowly fades away.

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Scrap all ships fix

Development Blog: For those of you out there that like to scrap all your ships and encountered a problem when trying to build new ships, I've added safeguards to make sure that the Build Ship dialog is still usable.

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Happy Birthday, Peter Commons (original developer of Spaceward Ho!). It looks like him, too.

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We've added the ability to name a star when you rank up from winning a game.

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A preview of the graph interface running in the iPad simulator.