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General discussionIn development: Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game(43 posts)(43 posts)
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Posted April 06, 2021
Play a turn-based, party-based role-playing game set aboard a generation ship launched to Proxima Centauri. Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game is now available as the game in development on GOG.COM, along with a 10% discount that will end on 13th April 2021, 1 PM UTC.

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Posted April 07, 2021
Good to see the EA version is on GOG too. Also good that this is party-based.
Posted April 07, 2021
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RedRagan: Leaving a group of human in a generational ship is never a good idea.
But if you are going to spend your entire life on a ship then definitely try to make sure that the lighting is decent at least.
Posted April 07, 2021
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RedRagan: Leaving a group of human in a generational ship is never a good idea. Always put your population in cryostasis and use an AI to find a new planet. This is based on my experience playing Seedship, man I was hoping that game get graphical overhaul.
Nice little game!

Without wanting to give away too much, a great example of the colonization ship with twists that make the trope afresh iis Old Twentieth, by Joe Haldeman, I guess you might well like it.

Also, for an example of cryostasis going deeply wrong, what about the 2009 movie Pandorum? :-)
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RedRagan: Leaving a group of human in a generational ship is never a good idea.
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joveian: But if you are going to spend your entire life on a ship then definitely try to make sure that the lighting is decent at least.
I guess that can be attributed to maintenance gone awry. With, possibly, better kept areas that some elites keep to themselves.

Mind, access to spare parts may be restricted, they may be rare, and even knowledge about how to actually fix things might have become esoteric, if not lost completely (save for data banks, which might have been altered themselves as well).

(Maintenance gone awry, and also destruction due to conflict, that has not been followed by proper repairs).
Post edited April 07, 2021 by Carradice
Posted April 07, 2021
I'm looking forward to this! I was watching the progress...
Posted April 07, 2021
Definitely going to keep an eye on this one after Age of Decadence. Hopefully it's a bit more forgiving though.
Posted April 07, 2021
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RedRagan: Leaving a group of human in a generational ship is never a good idea.
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joveian: But if you are going to spend your entire life on a ship then definitely try to make sure that the lighting is decent at least.
Indeed. Even evil corporation like BnL (Buy n' Large) treat their customers good. Sure they polluted earth so bad until it's almost uninhabitable but at least they still leave some robots to clean up the mess and tell robot navigators to keep BnL customers in space indifinitely
Posted April 08, 2021
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Vythonaut: Already enjoyed previous Iron Tower's games immensely, so i'm looking forward to it; will buy when it's finished.
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RedRagan: This is based on my experience playing Seedship, man I was hoping that game get graphical overhaul.
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Vythonaut: And for those who don't know what's Seedship, click here: https://johnayliff.itch.io/seedship
Excellent game!
Thanks for the link! Interesting little game.
Posted April 08, 2021
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Carradice: Also, for an example of cryostasis going deeply wrong, what about the 2009 movie Pandorum? :-)
Great movie. I really would like to see a sequel about them trying to colonize that new planet.
Posted April 09, 2021
It looks interesting, but judging by the screenshots the game is too dark for my taste. And it lacks a Linux version, like other Iron Tower Studio games.
Posted April 09, 2021
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eiii: ...
Their games work fine under Linux/Wine. In this specific case I understand the devs, they're just too small to provide a support for alternative OSes. I'd count on the support of Linux community.
Posted April 09, 2021
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eiii: It looks interesting, but judging by the screenshots the game is too dark for my taste. And it lacks a Linux version, like other Iron Tower Studio games.
Linux & MacOS support is planned(they use Unreal 4 this time) but it's not of a top priority, per Dev's words.Seems they'll iron the game content & features first.
Posted April 09, 2021
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i_ni: ...
Good news, thanks.

The only problem I've got with the game, it's still sooo far from the final product/story.
I'd rather use the next 2 years to try to finish Age of Decadence ;)
Posted April 11, 2021
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i_ni: Linux & MacOS support is planned(they use Unreal 4 this time) but it's not of a top priority, per Dev's words.Seems they'll iron the game content & features first.
That's good news, thanks! No problem when they focus on game content and features for now as the game still is in development. :)
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