Last week we took part in TactiCon 2024, a Steam festival celebrating strategy games which included demos, sales, as well as panels and talks by devs.
As part of the event we did a talk with one of our partners for Mars Horizon 2: The Search for life, the sequel to Mars Horizon! This talk went behind the scenes on the game and looked at how we are making it authentic from the ground up, much like we did with Mars Horizon.
Our talk was led by our Lead Marketing Manager Will Flanagan with guests Claudia Thomas, Game Designer, and Freddie Jones, Associate Programmer, on Mars Horizon 2.
Our Special guest for this talk was Dr Sean McMahon, senior academic and researcher in astrobiology from the University of Edinburgh who has been advising us on real life science as we design the game.
The talk went live last Saturday during the Steam event, but if you misssed it you can catch up over on the official TactiCon YouTube channel!
- Watch our talk on Space Exploration in Strategy games
A huge thanks again to Sean, and the rest of his group at the UK Centre for Astrobiology for partnering with us to make Mars Horizon 2: The Search for life authentic to the realities of Space exploration!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2281620/Mars_Horizon_2_The_Search_for_Life/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/765810/Mars_Horizon/
