History of SS13

A crash course in Space Station 13's history.

THIS PAGE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS

Creation: 2003

Space Station 13 was created by Exadv1 and released in BYOND on February 16, 2003. (Old Storyline)

The game was intended to be a simple atmospherics simulator. It was not a very popular game. A few servers were available, but player numbers rarely reached double digits.

(Details about how the code got leaked to be added)

This code was spread around from person to person until someone had the bright idea to start a community called OpenSS13. This was the first open-source version of Space Station 13. Around the same time, goons from Something Awful began to take interest in the game and goon-hosted servers appeared.

Popularity: 2007

Thanks to the open source, Space Station 13 gradually improved in quality and gained popularity within gaming communities. While other communities used the OpenSS13 code, Goonstation coders worked on their own closed-source code. Eventually, in 2009, Goonstation successfully produced a new and unique station, known as Donut Station. This was a major accomplishment for the game.

As the popularity of Space Station 13 rose even further, a second map was required to fit the higher number of players. Thus, in early 2010, Devstation was released. A large portion of the game's original code was rewritten and improved. On April 2010, goonstation released their current revision of the code, known as r4407. r4407 is the latest revision of the Goonstation code available to the public.