You know the scene. The starship is in unfamiliar space, on a collision course with a gigantic asteroid, and only the quick wits and frantic switch flipping of its crew can hope to save it from certain doom. Only this isn’t a movie — the scene I’m describing is the entirety of Sleeping Beast Games's Spaceteam — a multiplayer iOS game that turns your mobile device into the console of an interstellar cruiser. The directions that pop up onscreen need to be executed within a few seconds or your ship takes damage, but you have no way of knowing if the instructions are meant for you someone else. The objective, then, is to bark coherent orders at your spaceteammates (Extend the optical cushion! Engage the brain vacuum!) while you try...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/11/3756908/spaceteam-ios-sci-fi-sleeping-beast
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