Space Station Mayhem: press kit

Description

A zero-gravity workplace comedy about keeping a space station running. Barely.

• Zero-g movement. Thrust in six directions, brake, and hold a handrail. Flight assist damps your drift, or switch it off and coast the way Newton intended.
• Hands that push back. Grab, carry, throw, shove and kick. Heavy things lag behind you, and every throw sends you the other way.
• Real chores, step by step. Jobs are sequences of physical steps on real controls: switches, latches, valves, bolts, and parts you have to go and fetch. The order matters.
• A station of working rooms. The hub, the galley, hygiene, engineering and a two-part airlock with a suit room. Each has its own devices, its own job and its own way of going wrong.
• The work week. Five shifts, Monday to Friday: a rising quota, a daily memo, written warnings and a verdict card at the end. Seeded, with a Daily Week that is the same for everyone.
• Incidents and chain reactions. Fifteen kinds of incident, and rooms that share power and ventilation, so a mistake in one room becomes an alarm in another.
• The emergency purge. One big red button. Hold it, or let a giant floating foam wrench find it. The physics decides, and the payslip remembers.
• Local network co-op. Share the station with a crew over a local network, one player hosting: same contract, same incidents, same payslip. Online co-op through Steam is in development.