Welcome to this latest Space Game Junkie Podcast my friends! This week, Jim, Hunter, Spaz and I sit down with Dave Williams – Co-Founder and Everything Designer at Jellyfish Games — to talk about their recently successfully Kickstarted space station building and personality meshing sim, Astrobase Command. While we didn’t get to touch the game our own selves,… Read More »
Welcome back to Startopia my friends! In this entry, I try to tackle the mission, “They Grey Council” and fail completely. I don’t fully understand why. I was supposed to not let ten patients die and yet they did, even with plenty of medical facilities, doctors and supplies. I am fairly demoralized as I was… Read More »
Welcome to another week of spacey gaming my friends! This week, I’ll be, by request, diving into the 2001 fantastic space station simulator, Startopia! I also put together a little preview video for the upcoming spacey blockey shoot ’em up, Lightspeed Frontier! This week on the podcast (Tuesday, 5:30 PM Pacific, Twitch, YouTube, Beam, Hitbox)… Read More »
Welcome to 2001’s Startopia, my friends! This space station management game from Mucky Foot and Eidos is just oozing with style and fun gameplay, and by request, I’m diving in! In this first entry, we take a couple tutorials as well as the first actual mission in the game, “The Groulien Workers Party”, in which… Read More »
When Space Colony came out originally in 2003, I skipped it. Not 100% sure as to why I did really. The closest thing I can think of is that I saw it, thought to myself, “I already can play Startopia” and moved on. Regardless, there’s a new Steam version out, and the folks behind it… Read More »
In this video I take a look at The Spatials, a new space station sim from Weird and Wry games. In The Spatials, you’re given command of a new space station, and must complete missions on nearby planets in nearby systems — all randomly generated, mind you — to gain resources for your stations, research… Read More »