Gaming Space Station Designer (disclamer : might include a tiny bit of self-promotion! )

[N_Molson]

Hello Orbinauts,

I had little free time for Orbiter this last year because I was busy on a commercial project. The game is Space Station Designer, the main developer and coder is Ignacio Liverotti, and the studio is Polar Motion (we worked on BASPM too).​

https://polar-motion.com/devblog/

Space Station Designer (aka SSD) is, as the name implies, focused about designing and building space stations. The main genres are construction and management, and there are a lot of simplifications that aim to provide an interesting gameplay. What you have to do ingame is : to buy station modules, hire and manage closely your astronauts, and make sure your outpost is financially sustainable. That's where it gets really cool, as there are several ways to generate profit : industrial production of rare goods manufactured in microgravity, modules leasing, space tourism, and of course governemental subsides.​

https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvODU4Nzg5LzQ4MTk3NTEucG5n/original/5Nge7A.png

The game is in real time, goods prices fluctuate dynamically on the market, random events and modules failure happen, all that good fun! There is much much more and the best way to get an idea is probably to try our 0.5.0 alpha release. You can downoload it for free from Steam or itch.io :​

https://polar-motion.itch.io/space-station-designer-playable-alpha

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1447650/Space_Station_Designer/

The game is still under heavy development, and what you can play currently is the "first phase" of the game, that will once completed lead you through three "phases", that are sort of milestones in the expansion and development of your orbital outpost.

Last but not least SSD is meant to be an highly moddable sandbox, and you can already have a try at creating mods with the alpha version!

Feel free to give your feedback or report bugs on Steam and itch.io message boards, it will help us greatly in the development process.​

 

[Max-Q]

Norton won't let me run it. I have to add an exception.
Says that it detected SONAR.ProcHijack!g43 and deletes the exe.
From what I read on this, it looks like it's a false positive based on behavior.

 

[N_Molson]

Norton won't let me run it. I have to add an exception.
Says that it detected SONAR.ProcHijack!g43 and deletes the exe.
From what I read on this, it looks like it's a false positive based on behavior.

Thank you very much, the information has been relayed to the coder

 

[Ouacaze]

Wow ! Nice !
Congratulations from a fellow Toulousain
Are you an independant dev ?

 

[N_Molson]

Wow ! Nice !
Congratulations from a fellow Toulousain
Are you an independant dev ?

Thanks ! The lead developper is Ignacio Liverotti, the 2D/3D artist Mauricio Sanjuro and we are a small independent studio (Polar Motion).

 

[Ouacaze]

Ok awesome !

NB: I asked to join the game testing on Steam