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EmptyEpsilon open source spaceship bridge simulator
- Aeolun 2y agoThis is one of those things that would have been fantastic in university, but now the idea of getting 6 adults (parents) together in a room to play seems like a nearly insurmountable task.
- ibizaman 2y agoThere are still lots of people playing DnD so not all hope is lost. Or just do 6 kids and play with them, true it’s a long term investment just for one game :D Seriously though the instructions say you can play over internet too.
- jpwgarrison 2y agoYou can get by with 3 or four people. A few can be kids! It is intended to be played in person, but we started playing it remotely for "team building" in mid 2020. It works great over the internet, if everyone is technical enough to run two clients: one for your station and one for the "main" screen. If you have multiple monitors it works well. We've found all remote or all in person work well, and mixed makes comms frustrating.
- alextingle 2y agoAre there any reviews of how the actual game plays? This sounds right up my street, but I'd need some idea of what I'm getting before I get my friends to invest their time in playing it.
- Semaphor 2y ago46 comments 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28345868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28345868
- adrianhon 2y agoEmptyEpsilon is used for a couple of interesting large scale or commercial immersive experiences, including the Odysseus larp and Bridge Command. I’ve written up both: Bridge Command: https://mssv.net/2024/07/31/bridge-command/ https://mssv.net/2024/07/31/bridge-command/ Odysseus larp: https://mssv.net/2025/03/19/the-collective-ambition-behind-odysseus/ https://mssv.net/2025/03/19/the-collective-ambition-behind-o... There’s a discussion on HN about the latter, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43414992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43414992
- hifikuno 2y agoOdysseus is the one of the few things to get me truly excited an quite some time. I will most likely never be able to attend one but by god I would love too. I want to try get involved in the local event scene to get some experience. I think the only way I will get to experience something like Odysseus it is to run my own.
- mmooss 2y agoHow well does it scale up?
- throw_a_grenade 2y agoDo you know which EE scenarios do they run?
- adrianhon 2y agoI’d imagine it’s highly customised for both. They also have live GMs running the game, too.
- Tharna 2y agoWe wrote our own custom scenarios. They are all in our (forked) EmptyEpsilon repo: https://github.com/OdysseusLarp/EmptyEpsilon/tree/master/scripts https://github.com/OdysseusLarp/EmptyEpsilon/tree/master/scr...
- MaximalDamage 2y agoAlso check out Starship Horizons: https://www.starshiphorizons.com/ https://www.starshiphorizons.com/
- squarefoot 2y agoIt appears it uses AI only to operate additional stations and ships, while it could be interesting to have it also create random universes, or expand known ones through wormholes. Then add RPG capabilities, FPS and... ok, that would be too much.
- myself248 2y agoOooo, as someone who's played a fair bit of Artemis SBS in the past (and bought a license in the super super early days), but who _constantly_ lamented its closed-source nature, this is super intriguing. On the other hand, I've been out of the 'verse for a while and haven't been following developments. These simulators are so much fun, even the crappy ones, I don't even what to compare them to. It's a whole new kind of game, and it plays really well in a conference room after-hours, just sayin'.
- mmooss 2y ago> These simulators are so much fun, even the crappy ones ... How? Why? Tell us ... :)
- vhodges 2y agoDoes anyone know if it supports networked play (eg fleet operations or even ship vs ship)?