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Starship Mechanic now on Steam Greenlight
LONDON, February 22, in the year of our Lord 2016
- Resonance Studios has announced its debut “engineer ‘em up”
game Starship Mechanic is now on Steam Greenlight.
A fire alarm is blaring; red lights flashing across your
engineering bay. As you rush across the bay to put out the fire
creeping ever closer to your communications system, the all too
familiar sound of your bow shields taking a hit and subsequently
overloading from the enemy frigate’s lasers rings out. The first
mate sends a message over the comms “Looks like we have a
torpedo incoming on our bow side”. Dropping the fire
extinguisher at your feet you sprint back to the bow shields to
reboot them; the fire-fighting will have to wait.
A lot of attention is given to the captain of a starship, but
not everyone dreams of being Captain Kirk - many of us want to
be Scottie. In Starship Mechanic, the captaining is taken care
of for you. Instead, it places the focus on you being the most
important crew member, the engineer. The captain may be waving
his arms around furiously and screaming for more power to the
shields, but your batteries are already draining fast and you
simply can’t give it any more. It is your choice how to
interpret his often frantic and misdirected orders to serve the
situation. Do you wire more power from the stern battery to the
weapons to take down the enemy scout quicker? Do you adjust the
phase of your shields so they take less damage from the incoming
hits? Do you turn off your fabricator and stop the hull repair
to give the captain more power to the shields? Whatever your
decision, you are the fine line between success and failure.
As you manually speed up the reboot process you bring the
shields back up just in time to deflect the torpedo. Waiting for
the thanks from your crewmates you look across the engineering
bay. The communications system is broken, the coffee machine is
a smouldering mess and that fire you ignored earlier is reaching
inexorably towards your starboard weapons module.