While the high-level concept of being a pioneer who is stranded in a hostile new land is easy to grasp, the rest of the story feels rather uninspired – the Russians beat you to the new planet, through a portal of some sort. The story of Lifeless Planet is definitely one of its strong points, at least in theory. But once you arrive, you quickly realize that other people beat you to the punch, and that a cataclysmic event took place which appears to have wiped out most life, stripping the planet of its lush, bountiful biomes. A new space race began, and you were destined to be among the first humans to step foot onto this newly-discovered world. In a universe filled with countless trillions of stars, many of which harbor at least a handful of planets and protoplanets in nearly perpetual orbit, we were bound to find at least one planet full of life – and that’s exactly what we did in the story of Lifeless Planet. This matter tends to clump together, and it mostly forms the stars we see in the night sky. Yet, that empty space is occasionally occupied by, among other things, matter.

Man on a Mission: Richard Garriott's Road to the Starsĭisclosure: a review copy of this game was provided to me by the publisher.We exist in a cosmos filled with mostly empty space.

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Hayden Waugh's interview with Lifeless Planet’s David Board.

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In this episode, I speak with David Board of developer Stage 2 Studios about the game's evolution from its Kickstarter in 2011 to its PS4 release in 2016 the updated graphics engine how movies such as The Martian, Gravity, and Interstellar have affected public perception of space exploration manned vs. How did they get here, and what happened to the lush planet NASA had detected? A astronaut has been sent to what's supposed to be a verdant, unpopulated world - but his arrival reveals a barren wasteland populated by Cold War-era Russians. Lifeless Planet is a narrative puzzle-platformer for Steam, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

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