{"id":2322,"date":"2013-05-16T15:56:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T15:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2013-05-16T15:56:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T15:56:41","slug":"kickstarting-intergalactic-expedition-by-imaginepic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2322","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarting Intergalactic Expedition by ImaginEpic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got a heads up about a Kickstarter campaign to support development of the &#8220;Futuristic Space-Based Action Adventure Game&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/39232878\/intergalactic-expedition-0\" target=\"_d\">Intergalactic Expedition by ImaginEpic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The main objective of the game is to travel to Titan, one of Saturn\u2019s moons. The goal is to set up colonization to explore further into space. By utilizing renewable energy sources such as wind or hydroelectric power and utilizing water from the moon Rhea, this colony would give the resources required to travel and explore the outer most planets of our solar system. We wanted to use Titan because of its similarity to Earth in terms of landscape and composition (besides it being nitrogen-based opposed to carbon based)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See the following video for an overview and their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/39232878\/intergalactic-expedition-0\" target=\"_d\">Kickstarter page<\/a> for details:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/39232878\/intergalactic-expedition-0\/widget\/video.html\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got a heads up about a Kickstarter campaign to support development of the &#8220;Futuristic Space-Based Action Adventure Game&#8221; Intergalactic Expedition by ImaginEpic. The main objective of the game is to travel to Titan, one of Saturn\u2019s moons. The goal is to set up colonization to explore further into space. By utilizing renewable energy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2322\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kickstarting Intergalactic Expedition by ImaginEpic<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[16,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-and-games","category-simulators"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-Bs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3547,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3547","url_meta":{"origin":2322,"position":0},"title":"Spacevidcast: Lacuna Passage &#8211; a Mars survival game","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Spacevidcast latest Spacepod short program is about a new Mars based game seeking Kickstarter funding: Lacuna Passage - Spacevidcast Lacuna Passage is a story-driven exploration and survival game set on Mars. 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