{"id":9342,"date":"2013-06-27T14:17:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T18:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=9342"},"modified":"2013-07-02T13:17:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T17:17:51","slug":"race-to-mars-from-a-space-company-startup-to-a-mars-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/race-to-mars-from-a-space-company-startup-to-a-mars-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Race To Mars: From a Space Company Startup To a Mars Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9348\" title=\"Race To Mars | Space management simulation at Kickstarter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/race_to_mars_kickstarter.jpg\" alt=\"Race To Mars | Space management simulation at Kickstarter\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Indie dev game studio Intermarum, lead by\u00a0Szymon Janus, has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund their\u00a0newest project, a turn-based space management simulation game called <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/intermarum\/race-to-mars\" target=\"_blank\">Race to Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s ultimate goal is to establish a base on Mars, and to achieve that you will play the role of a space industry private company&#8217;s boss with the task to build satellites, rockets, spacecrafts and orbital stations.<\/p>\n<p>Intermarum says to have been inspired by <a  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buzz_Aldrin&#039;s_Race_Into_Space\" target=\"_blank\">Buzz Aldrin&#8217;s Race into Space<\/a>, also a turn-based space management\u00a0simulation game where the ultimate goal is, in that case,\u00a0to be the first to conduct a manned moon landing.<\/p>\n<p>There aren&#8217;t many more details to be found on their KS page at the moment, apart from a &#8220;market&#8221; gameplay system which allows you to scan for new contract offers, the fact that they are working closely with a Polish space industry company <a  href=\"http:\/\/kosmonauta.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kosmonauta.net<\/a> for scientific consultancy, and the game&#8217;s supported platforms, which due to the Unity3D&#8217;s engine, allows them to release for Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS and Android.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9347\" title=\"Race To Mars | Space management simulation at Kickstarter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/race_to_mars_kickstarter_2.jpg\" alt=\"Race To Mars | Space management simulation at Kickstarter\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Intermarum&#8217;s\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/intermarum\/race-to-mars\" target=\"_blank\">Race to Mars<\/a>\u00a0proposal\u00a0in a nutshell:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turn-based space management simulation<\/li>\n<li>Build satellites, rockets, spacecrafts, orbital stations and establish a base on Mars<\/li>\n<li>+200 technologies to discover<\/li>\n<li>DRM-free<\/li>\n<li>Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android<\/li>\n<li>\u00a312 (~$18) pledge to get digital game \/ \u00a390 (~$140) for physical copy (+others)<\/li>\n<li>ETA: March 2014<\/li>\n<li>Target: \u00a330,000 (until July 27th, 8:46am EDT)<\/li>\n<li>Why Kickstarter: &#8220;detailed buildings&#8217; models&#8221;, &#8220;accurate technology description&#8221; and &#8220;achieve a balanced gameplay&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Intermarum says that they are at Pre-alpha, in a very early stage of development. They also say that more details about the project, including the stretch goals, will be revealed as they go.<\/p>\n<p>The concept work is very interesting and pretty, and they seem to have a solid team behind the project (12 people total). But, the project sounds quite ambitious to accomplish with such a low budget goal. Will they manage to convince the community to help them out?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/intermarum\/race-to-mars\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"365\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indie dev game studio Intermarum, lead by Szymon Janus, has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund their newest project, a turn-based space management simulation game called Race to Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[943,74],"tags":[665,1113,1297,280,726,817,278,117,1299,1144,1298,230],"class_list":["post-9342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kickstart","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-android","tag-drm-free","tag-intermarum","tag-ios","tag-kickstarter","tag-linux","tag-mac","tag-pc-game","tag-race-to-mars","tag-simulation","tag-space-management","tag-turn-based-strategy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}