At conventions the Harris siblings demonstrate their own setup, complete with toggles and switches just like spaceships on TV. If you don't want to use mouse and keyboard you can construct your own consoles, pick up some Arduino microcontrollers and model a mini engineering deck on your desk.
Think custom Kerbal Space Program controllers, as an example. To make that ship even more real, there are blueprints (opens in new tab) players can use to fabricate their own controller setup. It all comes back to the spaceship, the thing that marks the player out, that gives them the freedom to roam the stars and see the bigger picture. We didn't want a hero's journey where you're the saviour of the universe or anything, but we did want the player to see through the in-fighting, the xenophobia and the regressive politics of the game world-to be unlike the NPCs they encounter who are mostly stationary and have lived in one place most of their lives." Although, having said that, players are meant to fly around and explore. Leigh explains, "if they spend all their time in Galileo, for example, there has to be enough news, characters and situations in Galileo alone for players to have fun there. But there needed to be enough missions that players could find things to do no matter the time or place. Some characters have jobs that depend on exploiting a war between rival space nations, and those jobs will only be available during the conflict. "There's no main quest line and time is always moving forwards, so we experimented with having NPC quest-givers only exist for periods of time in the game world which were narratively appropriate."
"We really explored what non-linear could mean with this game," says Leigh. The people you meet are affected by those same events. Type NEWS at one of your terminals and you can read up the latest events, whether terrorist bombings or pirate warnings or calls for traders on the outer rim. Objects in Space's specific timeframe means the world feels like it's in motion, independent of your actions. Which more or less happened at a few stages in development." At the same time, there was no doubt ever for me that we would finish this by hook or by crook, even if it had to be finished on weekends over years. "We spoke about scaling it down," says Elissa, "but it still ended up massive. this had to feel tactile and mechanical, even if you were playing solely with a keyboard and mouse.
Even with these limits, it's still more than you'd expect from a studio made of two siblings. One is that space is 2D, a flat surface like in Asteroids or Battlefleet Gothic the other is that there's a hard three-month time limit on the campaign-after which you can replay it and make different decisions, of course.
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With its launch from Early Access in 2018, Objects in Space gained multiplayer ("designed for co-op or head-to-head scenarios," Elissa says), mod support, and twice as much "narrative content." Its open world has bespoke story NPCs scattered across it who you can track down to follow their questlines, or you can just plot a course and keep yourself going by buying and selling. Accordingly, we delayed it again and again and again and ran out of money four times during production." As Leigh says, "we started it in late 2013, and at the end of 2014 made a handshake deal that we'd never release Objects until it was properly finished, no major cuts or compromises. Objects in Space is ambitious, especially for an indie project.
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Suddenly it's Wing Commander: Privateer, as well as Silent Hunter and also Euro Truck Simulator but, you know, in space. As well as simulating what it's like to fly a rustbucket that's a cross between a submarine and a space truck, Objects in Space lets you dock at stations where you trade goods, buy parts, take contracts, and talk to shady characters who might have illegal work for you. It makes me think of Han shouting at Chewie about where his tools have gone while he's pulling the Millennium Falcon's guts out, or any scene on an engineering deck with alarms flashing and sparks flying.
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