Sensible Erection | Artemis, engage!

Saturday, 1 September 2012

quote [ Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the simulation and the "main screen", while the others serve as workstations for the normal jobs a bridge officer might do, ]

No, it's not about Danny Devito's girlfriend on It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. But, that would be a good game also. Click this shit to go to their website and DL the demo. Looks like fun!

[games] [by blacksun@5:58amGMT] [+10 Good]

Comments

kishi said @ 6:05am GMT on 1st Sep
One of my friends had a Star Trek-themed party a week or two back and ran this. Said it was an absolute blast, and they were actually getting decent at it after a while.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 6:27am GMT on 1st Sep
This looks really really neat. Reminds me of a computerized version of a combination GURPS / Star Fleet Battles game I tried to run last year.

graham said @ 7:01am GMT on 1st Sep [Score:2]
**SPOILER**Little disappointed that it didn't blow up everything at the end.

happiest_sadist said @ 8:22am GMT on 2nd Sep
Hey ho - let's go!

lilmookieesquire said @ 7:30am GMT on 1st Sep [Score:1 Underrated]
The captain in the youtube clip has the voice of nails on a chalkboard.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 8:11am GMT on 1st Sep
Also, Zach of Zachtronic Industries (maker of SpaceChem and stuff) made an impressively ghetto precursor to this called Flight of the Atropos.

VictorTyne said @ 2:02pm GMT on 1st Sep
I think I just had a nerdgasm.

eIfish said @ 3:11pm GMT on 1st Sep [Score:1 Insightful]
Why on earth isn't this on iOS?

It's Star Trek.

Star Trek is operated by touchscreens.

Naruki said @ 6:02pm GMT on 1st Sep
You mean the later Star Treks. The original was all analog and sticks and levers. Hell, I think they may have even had a steam-powered robot once.

lilmookieesquire said @ 8:17pm GMT on 1st Sep

ckfahrenheit said @ 4:22am GMT on 2nd Sep
nom nom nom

taiga said @ 3:47pm GMT on 1st Sep
Awesome.

DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69 said @ 5:55pm GMT on 1st Sep
YES!

the circus said @ 6:35pm GMT on 1st Sep [Score:1 Funny]
The lower tech, boardgame version:

Mr. Langosta said @ 9:34pm GMT on 1st Sep
Does the Scotty guy in engineering have to sit in a different room?

Barnabas_Truman said @ 9:35pm GMT on 1st Sep
In TOS Scotty was on the bridge fairly often, sitting at an engineering console in the back left corner (across from Uhura).

Barnabas_Truman said @ 9:36pm GMT on 1st Sep [Score:1 Funny]
Does the Communications Officer do anything other than periodically report that no, the enemy doesn't wish to surrender?

bystander said @ 2:55am GMT on 2nd Sep
Occasionally, during lulls, she fan dances.

ckfahrenheit said @ 4:21am GMT on 2nd Sep
she ought to be able to hack to some extent

Barnabas_Truman said @ 5:43am GMT on 2nd Sep
Jam the enemy's targeting systems? Or would that be more science officer?

mechanical contrivance said @ 5:11pm GMT on 2nd Sep
Jam the enemies transmissions, of course.

Milkman666 said @ 6:12pm GMT on 2nd Sep
probably coordinates support from other ships, maybe there are fights that can be avoided through a dialogue tree and so forth.

"Comm, Hail the lead ship"

"Connection established Captain."

"Lead ship of the Korochu Armada this is Captain Milkman of the starship Artemis. Eat a bag of dicks. Mr Funnytickle, open fire, im going to take a piss and top off this whiskey sour."

Barnabas_Truman said @ 7:52pm GMT on 2nd Sep
I can see the communications officer having a MUCH stronger role in a game with several ships run by player teams in different rooms.

bltrocker said @ 1:03am GMT on 2nd Sep [Score:5 Underrated]

happiest_sadist said @ 8:26am GMT on 2nd Sep
That was great!
I especially like how the 'ceiling cat' view made the ball look like a yo-yo.

backSLIDER said @ 12:45am GMT on 4th Sep
Any SF bay area crew? Next month I should be moving into a house that will have a living room for this.

joju82 said @ 8:21am GMT on 8th Sep
Ha, I'm in. Just don't let me be the helmsman. I suffer from a severe case of asian driver syndrome. At least I don't have to parallel park in space.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 8:47pm GMT on 8th Sep
I don't have a computer that will run it, but if you can provide one I'd love to give it a try.