Thorium – A Starship Bridge Simulator

Re:Thorium – A Starship Bridge Simulator by alexanderson on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:07PM (#34989619)

It's a networked video game. If you're in the living room, folks are expected to bring their own computer. Each computer maps to a station on the bridge of a spaceship, like navigator or tactical.

The hope is that the game can be hosted over the internet through port-forwarding or on a VPC. That "part of a larger event" is actually in reference to running the game over a LAN at a convention.

The USS Voyager is a physical bridge simulator in Utah, USA that uses the Thorium Classic software, the precursor to Thorium Nova.

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Re:Thorium – A Starship Bridge Simulator by throwaway675309 on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @10:32PM (#34991624)

I still don't understand how the game is driven itself, maybe this is more for people who are already familiar with bridge Sims?

Do you purchase campaign models and then have a virtual dungeon Master interact with all the players to present scenarios in more of a DND style?

Or is this kind of stuff automated and there are levels that are connected to the bridge sim?

EDIT: never mind I read the article itself, I don't know how early in development this is but some kind of demonstration would go a long way towards promoting this project even if the demonstration is bare-bones and impromptu.

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