Yesterday Broken Crown Games launched a forum, ‘Science
Behind the Sci-Fi’. The purpose of this interesting sounding forum is to serve
as a platform from where the studio can bounce ideas between gamers and actual
scientist, covering STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)
topics. The material will be used in the studio’s new game, Escaping Titan, a Post-Apocalyptic
Space Fiction, Single-player RPG.
Scientists
Behind the Science
The forum features a four-member panel of scientists in fields related to the
science-fiction found in Escaping Titan. The panelists are:
- Jamie Boyer, Ph.D.
- Paleobotany
- Robert Hampson,
Ph.D. - Neuroscience
- Jacob Haqq-Mirsra,
Ph.D. - Astrobiology
- Amitai Bin-Nun,
Ph.D. - Astromony and Astrophysics
These four will
rotate each week, putting out a post for the first four weeks of each month.
Also, due to overwhelming response from the science community when the
Broken Crown Games studio made their call for panelist submissions, the team
now also plans to feature a guest’s content each month as well – for a total of
5 posts a month.
Game Sneak Preview
If you aren’t a science lover that’s OK, the Broken Crown team doesn’t expect
everyone to be in order to find the forum interesting. In order to drive
attention to the STEM content, the development team plans to update all the
panelist blogs with sneak previews of game – using the panel updates to show
how the science in the panelists’ posts were used to create the science-fiction
in Escaping Titan. These sneak
peeks will include concept art, in-game
Source: Games Press
Escaping Titan is a Post-Apocalyptic Space Fiction,
Single-player RPG. Following the terraboom era (which takes place centuries
after the time of Surviving
Mars), our solar system has a new governmental order with Saturn's moon
Titan at the center of it all. In Escaping Titan, you choose your backstory,
and play through the game as an individual looking to escape the corruption and
hypocrisy of the system's new capital city.Aquire a ship, recruit a crew,
haggle for supplies, and determine your destination, all in your attempt to
escape Titan.
Source: Broken Crown Games Official Website
The game is planned to release in quarter four of this year for
PC, Mac, Linux, OUYA, (and possibly Xbox 360).
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