{"id":11397,"date":"2015-09-19T14:16:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T18:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11397"},"modified":"2015-09-19T14:16:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T18:16:56","slug":"kerbal-space-program-a-visual-history-of-career-mode-from-john-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11397","title":{"rendered":"Kerbal Space Program – A visual history of ‘career mode’ from John Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Walker<\/a>,\u00a0founder of Autodesk, Inc.<\/a> and co-author of AutoCAD, has posted a big\u00a0Screenshot Gallery<\/a>\u00a0obtained\u00a0from\u00a0running Kerbal Space Program<\/a>\u00a0and learning a whole lot about rockets, orbital mechanics, and other aspects of spaceflight :\u00a0New: Kerbal Space Program Screenshot Gallery –\u00a0Fourmilog: None Dare Call It Reason<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The images were<\/p>\n

accumulated over a several-months-long play-through in career mode<\/a> which unlocked the entire technology tree<\/a> and visited every body in the Kerbol<\/a> system. An introduction explains the basics of the game to those unacquainted with it. I will add to the archive as adventures continue.<\/em><\/p>\n

And<\/p>\n

One thing which is certain is that after you’ve spent some time with Kerbal Space Program you will develop an intuition about orbital mechanics which few people, even authors of \u201chard\u201d science fiction, have. Here is how Randall Munroe<\/a>, creator of xkcd<\/a>, described it.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A sample of Walker’s\u00a0Kerbal screen captures:<\/p>\n

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John Walker,\u00a0founder of Autodesk, Inc. and co-author of AutoCAD, has posted a big\u00a0Screenshot Gallery\u00a0obtained\u00a0from\u00a0running Kerbal Space Program\u00a0and learning a whole lot about rockets, orbital mechanics, and other aspects of spaceflight :\u00a0New: Kerbal Space Program Screenshot Gallery –\u00a0Fourmilog: None Dare Call It Reason. The images were accumulated over a several-months-long play-through in career mode which unlocked … Continue reading Kerbal Space Program – A visual history of ‘career mode’ from John Walker<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,40,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-simulators","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2XP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10546,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10546","url_meta":{"origin":11397,"position":0},"title":"Kerbal Space 1.0 gets raves","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"More positive reviews for the Kerbal Space Program\u00a0(see earlier post): *\u00a0Kerbal Space Program review: A playful masterpiece of space exploration - The Washington Post \u201cKerbal Space Program\u201d is the kind of game one\u2019s never finished playing. 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