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#1 2012-10-28 05:18:20

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are you playing a computer game? PS3? XBOX?

well after the 2nd patch ExtraTerrestrials wink  plays superbly, no crashes and immense longevity - sequels not required, the game stands on it's own
6UFO_Extraterrestrials01-757901.jpg
ok it doesn't look anything like the new ENEMY UNKNOWN - nowhere near as sensational either but it certainly has it's moments and a superb learning curve too big_smile

I have been playing it since 2008  hmm and have started over about 10 times because I just love it (mind you, without the 2nd patch you would be in trouble) and they ARE putting out a sequel "this fall"  lol

what are you playing?

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#2 2012-10-30 09:52:44

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Re: are you playing a computer game? PS3? XBOX?

Simutrans. There is even a Martian map.


[i]"I promise not to exclude from consideration any idea based on its source, but to consider ideas across schools and heritages in order to find the ones that best suit the current situation."[/i] (Alistair Cockburn, Oath of Non-Allegiance)

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#3 2012-10-30 15:49:03

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Re: are you playing a computer game? PS3? XBOX?

Minecraft... Creating a texturepack to make it look like mars...


-Koeng


Lets terraform today!

[url=http://www.terraformingforum.com]www.terraformingforum.com[/url]

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#4 2012-10-31 14:08:40

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Re: are you playing a computer game? PS3? XBOX?

http://www.oolite.org/

'open' Elite clone, the first open-ended space-trader-sim.

Open source, Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD.... moddable, grrrreat community, more than 500 (functional) expansion pacs at last count

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#5 2021-09-15 10:28:03

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Re: are you playing a computer game? PS3? XBOX?

I do not play computer games anymore, I feel they suck too much time. I do once in a while watch someone review a game or see what is trending in sales.

A Teenager in Spain has Become the First Patient Hospitalized Due to a Video Game Addiction
https://www.laprensalatina.com/spanish- … rld-first/

Some of the top selling Video Games of all time have been the Mario Nintendo stuff, Tom Clancy's type War Games for the Xbox and PC, Sonic for the Sega, the Resident Evil Biohazard Franchise is a big seller, FIFA Boxer NFL type soccer sports games, the Wii Sports games, the Japanese monster pet hunter based on Pokémon is a big seller and Japanese imagary world Escapist games like Final Fantasy and Zelda.

There has been an old thread here about Xbox and Sony Playstation stuff, a talk about video games people played on newmars
http://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=546
top 99 games worldwide - which do YOU rate?


Video Games have sold even more during the Corona virus with people doing more Gaming during the Covid Lockdowns.
PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S Sales Comparison
https://www.vgchartz.com/article/450611 … gust-2021/

Video game sales skyrocket to record highs, debunking pandemic bump
https://news.yahoo.com/video-game-sales … 55717.html

The world of Video gameas is often not based on reality, a gun might shoot some energy thing and have infinte bullets, a car or person might exploded only to be reborn and restarted, it is all a simulation of gameplay and entertainment, game physics is sometimes like toonish world of cartoons. The planet Mars is showing up in games as often as cowboys or samurai or do, it has become a place in video games just like the United States of America or Europe and Asia and our oceans have become video game worlds, Mars features in games regular like anicent dragons or fantasy warrior from Rome and China do. The idea of a planet Mars in games it got popular has featured in Red Faction a shoot 'em up rebellion game, the original video game story was about a miners' uprising on Mars against the Ultor Corp. The planet Mars it has featured in Jamestown Legend of the Lost Colony a kind fo alternative steampunk universe with flying shooting ships, it has featured on old MS-DOS IBM era games Commander Keen, Mars has featured in a game called Marathon another shoot 'em up a first-person shooter video game, it was also part of the 'Doom' game series. Mars as a planet has been part of an exploration puzzle type game, featuring a subterranean Mars and puzzles about hidden alien creatures, this was a platform-adventure game built by an American company. Theer is an upcoming video game called 'Million on Mars' which might feature a colonization you see in simulations like 'The Sims' and city-building experience 'Surviving Mars' is closer to scifi and building and exploration concepts, it is a settlement-building Simulation Game.

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#6 2022-01-02 07:47:21

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Re: are you playing a computer game? PS3? XBOX?

I think 'space' as a frontier has very much become part of pop culture and video games although there might not be anything that recently had the impact of fictional works such as Star Trek, Voyage dans la lune aka A Trip to the Moon from 1902, or War of the Worlds or Star Wars.

Destination Mars a fast-paced interstellar adventure
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/1 … -adventure

How realistic are the terraformed planets of Destiny 2?
https://www.space.com/how-realistic-are … -destiny-2

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#7 2022-06-04 12:59:01

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Re: are you playing a computer game? PS3? XBOX?

Don't play games but seen this 'Callisto Protocol'

Space Horror?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkE6qf76nrY

https://www.callistothegame.com

Hollywood actor Josh Duhamel will provide the voice and motion capture for main protagonist Jacob Lee

Has elements of Alien by Ridley Scott maybe elements of the second by James Cameron or H.R. Giger weirdness or the Sean Connery Peter Hyams horror frontier film Outland.

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#8 2022-07-27 08:17:12

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I don't play games yet sometimes gamer stuff will pop into my feeds

Another game featuring Mars and War, gives off Total Recall vibes or psychological horror.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9warELmaW8

'During the first manned mission to Mars a group of Astronauts visits the moon of Phobos where they mysteriously disappear. 20 years later the daughter of one of them embarks on a quest to solve the mystery.'

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1759 … _Subhuman/

The Jaw-Dropping Sci-Fi Video Game Everyone Needs to Play Once
There's nothing else quite like this video game.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/the-ja … play-once/
Outer Wilds is a video game about exploring space, but it's also a mystery to unravel. Following in the footsteps of the Nomai, an alien race that perished thousands of years ago, Outer Wilds is a game that has you playing space detective, investigating the ruins of an extinct civilization in an attempt to find exactly what the hell happened? The twist: Outer Wilds is centered on a Groundhog Day-esque time loop. You have precisely 22 minutes to investigate before the sun implodes, taking your entire solar system with it. All that remains: The knowledge you acquired during those precious few minutes.
Outer Wilds is a mystery that reveals itself in a traditional video game manner -- through audio logs, written notes and so on -- but the execution is so inspired you barely notice the tropes. Through its inventive locales and subtle puzzles, Outer Wilds consistently inspires a level of awe unlike any video game I've ever played.

The best space games on PC in 2022
https://www.pcgamesn.com/15-best-pc-space-games

20 NEW Space Games of 2022
https://gameranx.com/features/id/284972 … s-of-2022/

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#9 2022-09-13 04:46:02

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'A lot better than just seeing it on photos, and a good way to get first impressions and situational awareness. But not a substitute for humans to go there themselves. Not even close'

https://twitter.com/Astro_Alex/status/1 … 7617769475

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#10 2022-10-04 07:47:09

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'Deliver Us Mars'

The Previous game looked like a mix of Moon 2009 with Sam Rockwell and Gravity 2013 with Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris

'Deliver Us The Moon' - Launch Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB17XR-i4hM

Deliver Us The Moon is a puzzle adventure game experienced at various points of the narrative from either a first-person or a third-person perspective, which is determined by the type of action that must completed. For example, the camera shifts to a first-person perspective when the player controls a floating robot tied to a puzzle
https://www.gameinformer.com/review/del … s-in-space

'Deliver Us Mars', set ten years after the events of Deliver Us The Moon, was announced.

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#11 2022-10-19 14:04:06

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Video game market riding high on wave of smartphone apps
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14724279

G4TV Hit With Major Layoffs Less Than A Year After Coming Back
https://www.yahoo.com/video/g4tv-hit-ma … 00633.html

'10 Best PlayStation 4 City Building Games You Need To Play'
https://gameranx.com/features/id/345824 … d-to-play/

Don't like your city? Build a better one!

'Planetbase' trailer mentioned in the article, it does not say 'Mars' but it says land on a remote planet which in a ways looks like Mars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9jfsBVL_uc

Halloween in Cartoon World
https://marswillsendnomore.wordpress.co … oon-world/

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#12 2022-10-26 17:39:12

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Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children
https://nida.nih.gov/news-events/news-r … n-children

A game NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN in development Callisto Protocol was posted above, it looks like Aliens film franchise H.R. Giger, Ridley Scott, James Cameron but maybe more 'horror' in modern survival video games

From the Trailer it looks like a Horror theme more than Space Exploration theme

'There's a bone-crushing violence to The Callisto Protocol that I wasn't expecting'

https://www.gamesradar.com/callisto-pro … n-preview/

'The Callisto Protocol hands-on: Only the paranoid survive'

https://venturebeat.com/games/the-calli … d-survive/

Callisto Protocol Gameplay
https://www.bitchute.com/video/GzvQURgHB1E5/
Fanmade Video Trailer
https://rumble.com/v1ph11w-the-callisto … ailer.html
The Callisto Protocol Official Story Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGVM-M4NHhg

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#13 2023-03-15 16:18:18

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A game Hardpsace Shipbreaker You’re a “shipbreaker,” tasked with salvaging old spaceships, there will be more Star Trek and Star Wars games Starfields’ open-world sci-fi adventure is set on a barren moon. Starfield isn’t 'survival horror' but it is spooky and creepy but Dead Space is zombie aliens horror and humanity has resorted to destroying entire planets, a process called planet cracking.

Space dot com is having regular updates on games

Hunt for alien biosignatures in 'Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life' on PC

https://www.space.com/mars-horizon-2-th … 24-release

This fantastic trailer for retro-future game 'The Invincible' aims for the stars
https://www.space.com/the-invinvible-space-game-trailer

This first-person adventure from Starward Industries is based on celebrated author Stanislaw Lem's sci-fi classic novel

A game Deliver Us Mars was already mentioned in this thread

Deliver Us Mars: Are we there yet? Red Planet game takes patience and dexterity
https://www.space.com/deliver-us-mars-g … -dexterity

Growing up isn't an easy task, especially when there's interplanetary family drama and puzzle solving involved.

Deliver Us Mars, a fresh entry from KeokeN Interactive released Feb. 2, brings us the Red Planet with a view from rookie astronaut Kathy Johanson. It features stunning cinematics and an interplanetary mystery to Mars that carry the space game along for its approximate 10-hour gameplay. But the puzzles and control movements may frustrate younger, less experienced or less agile players. Still, it's an early contender as one of the best space games of 2023.

video clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3ypSV07o00


NASA, HeroX need your help to simulate astronaut Mars missions
https://www.space.com/nasa-herox-mars-m … -challenge



and none of the video game generation seem interested in going to the Moon

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#14 2023-07-02 04:57:50

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a silly graphical video game failure

Gamers hate the new 'KerbalSpaceProgram-II' or KSP-2?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpK_jGTJG3k

as the old Game improved user found a graphical glitch funny but they want the game to be better not 'silly'

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#15 2023-07-02 06:43:31

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Re: are you playing a computer game? PS3? XBOX?

For Mars_B4_Moon ...

I noticed your comment about gamers and Moon simulations....

It reminded me that the developer/sponsor of the Moonwards web site has appeared as a guest on TheSpaceShow with Dr. David Livingston.  It's been a while since I've checked their progress, but when I last checked they were building a fairly sophisticated simulation and I expect they've improved it since...

I asked Google for snippets, and it found these ...

Moonwards – Realistic virtual lunar town
www.moonwards.com
This Game Evolves ... Moonwards exists to deliver a gut level understanding of our future in space and all it will mean. It will evolve as it connects with the ...
Missing: simulation | Must include:simulation
Pellet Simulator - Moonwards
www.moonwards.com › pellet-simulator
Pellet simulator. Finding very sensitive trajectories, like those requiring multiple gravity assists, is a very time consuming trial and error process.
Moonwards Docs | Read the Docs
readthedocs.org › projects › moonwards-docs
Official documentation on how to collaborate on the Moonwards virtual space settlements. Repository. https://github.com/moonwards1/moonwards-docs. Project Slug.
Moonwards | LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com › company › moonwards
Moonwards. Computer Games. Building a simulation of an advanced lunar town, where players add on and share the experience of exploring our future.
moonwards1/Moonwards-Virtual-Moon - GitHub
github.com › moonwards1 › Moonwards-Virtual-Moon
Moonwards Virtual Moon. This is our older effort. Development is now in Unreal 5, and currently not on GitHub. You must install Git LFS before cloning this ...
Moonwards makers | The Space Show
thespaceshow.com › moonwards-makers
Guest: Kim Holder; Topics: Revisions for Moonwards, investors, publishing, lunar simulation, Moon Town as an industry town, the business plan competition, ...
Moonwards neighborhoods | The Space Show
www.thespaceshow.com › moonwards-neighborhoods
... new Moonwards, the demo, Moonwards details and plans, why Moonwards, open source platform to experience a realistic simulation of a town on the Moon.
Classic#HotelMars: Mars colony modeling. Kim Holder, Moonwards ...
audioboom.com › posts › 8174426-classic-hotelmars-mars-colony-modelin...
Oct 13, 2022 · #Classic#HotelMars: Mars colony modeling. Kim Holder, Moonwards.com. David Livingston. moonwards.com (Originally posted July 15, 2021).
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<< the citation below is probably not related to the Moonwards site >>

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Moonward Studios | Facebook
m.facebook.com › moonwardstudios › posts
Oct 6, 2022 · Eric Miller Animation Studios — SiLAS Using Animation to Help Kids Learn Social Skills. Training simulations have been an important applic.
Related searches
Moonwards simulation download
Moonwards simulation reddit

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#16 2023-07-08 05:05:02

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Our Story
https://www.moonwards.com/about-us/
Moonwards was born at the National Space Society conference in Toronto in 2015. It was the first space conference I (Kim) had ever gone to. Towards the end of it, I was talking to one of the directors of NSS (Claire McMurray). I said to her, the NSS should make a virtual moon base online to show how it would really be. And Claire said, maybe. Why don’t you do that?
So when I got home I thought it over and got started. After a lot of reading, consultation, and work I cobbled together a few 3d models. They were very basic and naively designed. But when I talked to people in the space community about the concept, many were intrigued. It was enough to continue on.

Once the programming of Moonwards began, the project began morphing and hasn’t really stopped since. Game developers from the Godot community began poking their heads in, and some of them stayed. Over the two years that followed, my understanding of the nature of this project changed tremendously. In order to allow people to add things to it, and in some cases build things completely inside it, it would need a lot of code. But if those things weren’t possible, it would serve no purpose. I realized this was going to be a long, difficult haul.

Now we have a stable core team, a solid draft of all the major structures, and the code so that people can visit, look around, and talk about things with a chat system. There is a rover to drive, there is lots of information posted around, and more being added in a constant stream. New objects are being added on a regular basis, and now they come from outside sources. But Moonwards won’t be serving its purpose until much more functionality has been achieved. We’ve defined the steps to get there and are steadily working through them.

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#17 2023-07-08 05:06:15

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Macron is far from the first leader to blame violence on debunked video game theory
https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2 … ame-theory
Violence erupted in France following the fatal police shooting of a teen. President Macron has, in part, blamed video games for the clashes.

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#18 2023-08-25 03:56:11

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Cosmic Space Simulation Experiences

Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life partners with European Space Agency

https://www.dlh.net/en/news/75602/mars- … gency.html

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#19 2023-08-30 16:43:36

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'Astroneer' lead designer explains why the sandbox sci-fi game remains so relevant (exclusive)

https://www.space.com/astroneer-sci-fi- … -interview

From the Trailer it Looks more like Bugs Bunny scifi Mickey Mouse fantasy 'cartoon physics'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMLwzt5t9bs

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#20 2023-09-18 03:38:56

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After castigating video games during riots, France's Macron backpedals and showers them with praise

https://apnews.com/article/france-macro … af4ab4ed08

'Space VS Orbit'

https://everydayastronaut.com/space-vs-orbit/

To get back down into a lower circular orbit, the spacecraft has to do the exact opposite. It has to decelerate, coast down to perigee where it will have to decelerate again lowering its apogee until it matches its perigee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE1A6T1cycU
To players of the video game Kerbal Space Program this concept will most likely feel very familiar.

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#21 2023-09-24 08:21:32

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The leader of the colony addressing settlers on Mars
https://www.humanmars.net/2023/08/the-l … ssing.html
The leader of the colony gives a speech to a crowd of Martian settlers inside a domed meeting hall of a human colony on Mars – game art from Terraformers – Mars colonization turn based strategy game released on March 2023 and developed by indie game developer Asteroid Lab.

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