Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager

[Slitherine Iain]

In case you missed the announcements this is coming to your iPad this summer!

http://www.slitherine.com/games/BA_SPM_Pc

[iPadisGreat]

I read the announcement somewhere and am somewhat confused. Is this going to be one game with free expansion updates, one game with IAPs for expansions, or three games?

The announcements made it seem like there is the race to the moon part, then another part, then the Mars part, but it also seemed like only the Moon part is coming soon...

[Slitherine Iain]

The game will be split in to 3 episodes. You'll be able to continue from 1 to the next. On iOS the other episodes will be IAP's when they are done but it is just so much content that the team need to split it across the 3 releases or it wont release for another 18 months. Does that clarify how it all fits together?

[iPadisGreat]

Originally Posted by Slitherine Iain

The game will be split in to 3 episodes. You'll be able to continue from 1 to the next. On iOS the other episodes will be IAP's when they are done but it is just so much content that the team need to split it across the 3 releases or it wont release for another 18 months. Does that clarify how it all fits together?

Yep, thanks. I have no issues with IAP expansions, but if the whole package, with all three scenarios, is going to take up gigabytes of space, may I suggest perhaps also selling them as seperate apps, due to lack of space to keep Gigabyte games installed?

Nonetheless, day one purchase.

[Slitherine Iain]

It wont really work like that as just because you are advanced in one area doesn't mean you are in another and the previous components can be reused.

Imagine Civ - its as if you are adding an extension on when the tech tree stops. You wouldn't want to only play the higher techs you want to progress through the early techs to the later ones.

[Rave]

Looks very promising! It reminds me very much of a modernized, updated, and expanded version of Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space (wikipedia)

Anyone interested in retro-gaming, here is the link to the (non-tablet) Win/Mac/Linux freeware version of the early 1990s vintage game http://www.raceintospace.org/