Artemis Bridge Simulator.. (read: Star Trek Bridge Game)

[SirFozzie]

Played this at GenCon. Holy fuck, it's so awesome. It is a up to six player game where each player controls one or more departments (Captain, Navigation, Engineering, Weapons, Science/Sensors, Communication) on the brige of a starship as you attempt to defend your sector and its starbases from a horde.

 

The stations are all set up like Star Trek stations.. we played on giant touch screen TV's that's like working the consoles on Star Trek, but it's set up for mouse and keyboard

 

I'm definitely getting a bridge crew license ($40 for a six player server basically), and while it's optimized for face to face play in a room.. this can be apparently played over the Internet with voice chat. So, if this kinda game tickles your fancy, let me know, it would be great to do a DVDVR game:

 

http://www.artemis.eochu.com/

[Cristobal]

...FUCKING WANT!

[Ace]

"Celebrity Artemis" is also a feature on the Jonathan Coulton cruise. Here's one featuring somebody with a little.. experience.

 

[Raziel]

Good lord, if me and two of the guys I work with could get 3 of the upstairs guys in on this, we would have an awesome time.

[Bustronaut]

I'm in!  I've got version 1.7

[SirFozzie]

version 2.0 is out this week. so, that's the version I may buy (and get everyone in on it)

[Bustronaut]

Hmmm, Not sure if there'll be more than 5 people, but if not I'll pony up $5 to join in (though I'm really only available Friday & Saturday nights, or during the day M-F, Central Time)

[SirFozzie]

Picked it up.. probably going to take some doing (open ports etcetera), but if you have voice chat (it's integral for playing) and want to do something (Probably friday or saturday night) let me know)

[SirFozzie]

Got it up and running (was not fun mucking about with portfowrwarding.. but we got it to work