Game Classification

Orbiter Schweiger InterActive (United Kingdom), Schweiger InterActive (United Kingdom), 2000  

Informations Analyses Serious Gaming
 

Classification

RETRO SERIOUS GAME
(Edugame)

Keywords

Educational - Flight - Futuristic - Science - Simulation

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Educative message broadcasting

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment
  • Education

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old / 8 to 11 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick DESTROY : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick SHOOT : explanation of this brick
0 analysis

Similar games

Supercharged! Supercharged!
Bodyworks Voyager - Mission in Anatomy Bodyworks Voyager - Mission in Anatomy
Destination: Mars! Destination: Mars!
Trust and Betrayal: The Legacy of Siboot Trust and Betrayal: The Legacy of Siboot
Début Début
Biosphere Biosphere
Megapak 2 Megapak 2
Re-Mission Re-Mission
Orbiter Orbiter is a freeware space simulator coded by the British professor Dr. Martin Schweiger, having been in development since 2000. The Orbiter community usually receives two new releases of the program a year; the first is the yearly update with numerous changes, and then usually a patch or two is released a few months later to fix bugs and to introduce additional changes to the program.

Orbiter one of the most realistic space simulators ever released to the public, utilizing a very accurate and robust Newtonian physics model for in-game flight. Players can fly in the Space Shuttle or in more futuristic craft, dock with the International Space Station or program a flight to nearly all of the planets and many of the moons within the solar system. Many helpful MFD (multi-function display) programs come with Orbiter to help you maneuver through space, and they can be configured in a pre-startup game configuration window so that you may pick and choose which ones you wish to use in-game. You may also start a scenario or saved game from this pre-launch dialogue, or make numerous other changes to to the program.

All of these features are visually represented through a graphics engine which is able to keep up with the sophisticated physics system running in the background while still being able to produce intimidating sights - from small asteroids to the super massive planet Jupiter. The graphics engine can have its quality scaled in the aforementioned pre-startup game configuration window, so that it will run more easily on less robust systems.

Orbiter is also very flexible in terms of modifications. Several new ships, multi-function display programs and celestial bodies (including entire solar systems separate to our own) have been released thus far. You may also download super high-resolution textures for pre-existing planets, with upgrade packages increasing their resolution to as high as 32768 x 16384 for the more commonly visited bodies. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : PC (Windows)

Links

Update this description