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Date Posted：03-07-2012 11:39 AMCopy HTML
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"Redshirt" is the new comedy sci-fi sim about social
networking aboard a space station, starring the
station's most ambitious low-ranking peon: you!
Navigate the professional and interpersonal politics of
the ubiquitous "Spacebook" to curry favor among friends
and colleagues. As intense intergalactic conflict rages
around you, it's up to you to accrue those all-important
"likes" on your status updates! Whether you're looking
for love, opportunities for promotion, or even a chance
to play Zero-G golf with the captain, you can schmooze
your way through social circles and claw your way up
the career ladder. Perhaps you too can finally achieve
the dream of an off-station transfer, or even the
Redshirt's opportunity of a lifetime: being sent on
an away-mission!
Redshirt is being developed for the PC and Mac by
Tiniest Shark, and published by fellow UK indie developer
Positech Games. Release is scheduled for 'some time in 2012'
Thoughts from Publisher, Cliff Harris, of Positech:
Well you know in all those sci-fi series there is always some
crewmember in the background, with no dialogue, who nobody knows
his/her name, who always gets shot in the first 15 minutes, and
tends to wear a red shirt…. Well that’s YOU. It’s a game where
you are not Luke Skywalker, you are the guy who fixes the drinks
machine in Luke’s quarters on hoth. You are the guy who fixes the
sliding doors on the enterprise when they get stuck. You are the
girl who offers Kirk a notepad for him to scribble on. You are basically
the bottom of the hero career ladder…
And here is the thing. It maybe AD 2652 (or whatever) but people
manning space stations are just as shallow, self-obsessed, dorky, and
fixated with social-media as they are now. none of this ‘enlightened future’
crap that you see in star trek! The interface for the game is loosely
based around modern social media apps, so it’s a nit of a humorous
dig at sci-fi conventions and social media obsession.
If you played my life sim game ‘Kudos’ you will have an idea of how
these things work. Only this one has cooler outfits, and space! and aliens!
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