Gentleman’s Astronautics
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Hey fellas, I'm (planning) on making a video game, set in the late 1950s, where Britain, the USSR and the USA each have their own space programmes, the US having Von Brauns ferry rocket and space lift ops, and the Brits having the BIS', now formed as the British Interplanetary Commission, designs from 45-58. Perhaps I might have some help in coming up wit the lore? Or even ideas for "photographs" for background dressing would be cool.
Brief synopsis of the general game plot
1958- WgCmd David Rathbone is summoned to the briefing room in the RRE on the coast of Kenya. The BIC has lost contact with the moon base "Cheshire Base" (must work on that name), and so David and a co pilot is dispatched up to the moon to find out what has happened in the colony. Once arriving at mons piton, they crash, and the co pilot is killed. Rathbone is slightly injured, and makes his way towards the colony. The place is largely deserted. He tends to his wounds, and proceeds into the main colony. There he finds that the colony has been overrun by Wellsian Martians, who are using the moon as a stepping stone towards the invasion of earth, since mars is increasingly becoming uninhabitable in recent years.
David fights his way through the colony, then there are two endings. Leave the colony for a nearby quarry to link up with the indigenous species of the moon, the selenites, or he can remain and link up with the few survivors left and detonate the Thorium reactor as a last ditch effort to destroy the invasion force and escape.
Thoughts? The game will largely follow the war of the worlds, however with a more 50s update, and more period appropriate science.
Brief synopsis of the general game plot
1958- WgCmd David Rathbone is summoned to the briefing room in the RRE on the coast of Kenya. The BIC has lost contact with the moon base "Cheshire Base" (must work on that name), and so David and a co pilot is dispatched up to the moon to find out what has happened in the colony. Once arriving at mons piton, they crash, and the co pilot is killed. Rathbone is slightly injured, and makes his way towards the colony. The place is largely deserted. He tends to his wounds, and proceeds into the main colony. There he finds that the colony has been overrun by Wellsian Martians, who are using the moon as a stepping stone towards the invasion of earth, since mars is increasingly becoming uninhabitable in recent years.
David fights his way through the colony, then there are two endings. Leave the colony for a nearby quarry to link up with the indigenous species of the moon, the selenites, or he can remain and link up with the few survivors left and detonate the Thorium reactor as a last ditch effort to destroy the invasion force and escape.
Thoughts? The game will largely follow the war of the worlds, however with a more 50s update, and more period appropriate science.