Space Cruiser Trailer

Space Cruiser is a coop­er­a­tive mission-based game cen­tered around nav­i­gat­ing around a fic­tional uni­verse, designed for 100–200 par­tic­i­pants to be installed at Hay­den Plan­e­tar­ium of the Museum of Nat­ural His­tory for night on Jan­u­ary 26th, 2012. The game is being put on by Baby­cas­tles, designed by Ivan Safrin.

I made this trailer from my footage of the amaz­ing playtest last night.

The game imag­ines the plan­e­tar­ium as a large, player-controllable space­craft. A multi-player con­trol deck at the cen­ter of the the­ater will offer a small crew the chance to nav­i­gate the space­craft together, pilot­ing through treach­er­ous aster­oid belts. The crew is an unas­signed, free-form team that works together to pilot the space­ship, with var­i­ous parts of the ship spread out over the the­ater while being guided by a on-board com­puter sys­tem that is voiced by Stephin Mer­ritt of the Mag­netic Fields. For the one time event, Greg Fox will play a live sound track. All space ship mod­ules have been hand made by Mike Anderson.