Co-op sim Artemis: Spaceship Bridge Simulator beams down iOS edition
Artermis: Spaceship Bridge Simulator is a delightful idea, a co-op starship sim where each player mans a different station on the bridge using their own PC, but getting everyone together in one room for the full experience would never be too easy. Delightfully, you can now easily pull a motley crew together almost anywhere, as creator Thom Robertson today released an iOS edition with cross-platform play.
Artermis: Spaceship Bridge Simulator is a wonderful idea, a co-op starship sim where each player mans a different station on the bridge using their own PC, but getting everyone together in one room for the full experience would never be too easy. Delightfully, you can now easily pull a motley crew together almost anywhere, as creator Thom Robertson has released an iOS edition with cross-platform play.
The iOS edition is available now from the iTunes App Store for $2.99. With cross-platform play, you can supplement your bridge with iDoodads, with touchscreens adding a nice authentic Star Trek edge, or or do it all on iOS. It's a mite cheaper than the PC edition, which costs $40 from the official site, though you do only need to buy that once to cover every PC on the bridge.
Artermis does support online multiplayer too but, honestly, don't you want to be in the same room with your shipmates as you yell "She cannae take any more, cap'n"? Look, an old fan video:
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, Co-op sim Artemis: Spaceship Bridge Simulator beams down iOS edition.
Artermis: Spaceship Bridge Simulator is a delightful idea, a co-op starship sim where each player mans a different station on the bridge using their own PC, but getting everyone together in one room for the full experience would never be too easy. Delightfully, you can now easily pull a motley crew together almost anywhere, as creator Thom Robertson today released an iOS edition with cross-platform play.-
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This needs to be on Android stuff too. WHY DOES IOS GET ALL THE COOL STUFF WAAAAAAAH!
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Actually, that kind of defeats the idea behind the game - wonder what they were thinking? Other than "Hey, we can make some more $$." ????
Part of the fun of playing is sitting at your PC like it's a console on a starship. Hard to see how sitting at a table staring down at a tablet helps with the immersion?? Huh?-
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Was just going to post this. Isn't a touchscreen much closer to Star Trek consoles than a laptop?
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Depends on the series. Enterprise/TOS used physical buttons most of the time, TNG onward was all touchscreen LCARS.
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Of course they can play it how they like - that wasn't my central point at all - but it would seem, even to the most casual observer (I should think), that it was genuinely meant to be played on PCs sitting at your desk, as if you were at a station on a starship bridge.
Plunking away at a tiny tablet in your lap doesn't seem even remotely like it would feel the same.
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This is great news, given that the group I play with is almost always working with at least one just terrible laptop. Now I can bring my iPad.
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