Video Game expansion

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Lore Impact (Small/Medium/Large): Small

Team Purview: (Skrell, Tajara, Human, Vaurca, Dionae, Unathi, Synth, Loremasters) Human, Loremasters. (I mentioned Skrell, IPC, Dionae, as well, but it’s really minor)

Short Description: Adds three more video games!

How will this be reflected on-station?: People can talk about more video games and what they do for fun while not at work more easily.

Does this addition do anything not achieved by what already exists?: Not particularly, but more video games added to the lore feels like an addition that wouldn’t really hurt.

Do you understand that the project may change over time in ways you may not foresee once it is handed over to the Lore Team?  Yes

Long Description: Lore below!

 

While not the most popular game to come from the Sol Alliance, Dawn of Orion has gathered an extremely loyal cult following owing to its high skill curve and long matches. The game is set during the rapid expansion of the Solarian Hegemony, and players compete in one-on-one matches with one side playing a fictional megacorporation, and the other playing as part of the Solarian Alliance. Each round, which can take three to twelve hours to complete, has a goal to gather the most resources and take the most land in a given sector. The UI of the game is notoriously outdated, and the mechanics are nearly impossible to learn. Orbital trajectories must be calculated, colonies must be properly fed, and supply routes must be carefully planned to even have a chance at winning. While its release did not find much fanfare among Solarian citizens, interestingly most of its fanbase are made of Skrell, Synthetics, and Vaurca, as well as an occasional dedicated human that has time to spare. The diverse fanbase has caused some controversy, with many tournaments disallowing IPCs and vice versa for Skrell, owing to the prejudice the two groups have for each other. Despite this, the game is considered a cult success, and a sub-group of dedicated players can be found just about anywhere in the Spur.

 

One of the most popular games across the Spur, K’ois Blast can be found installed by default on most consumer electronics produced by NanoTrasen, thanks to a deal made between NanoTrasen and the game’s developer, the Zo’rane hive. While the gameplay is simple; match k’ois blooms to make them “pop” and disappear before they fill up the screen, the game is filled with microtransactions to buy virtual Vaurca “eggs”  which can unlock new “castes” of Vaurca, which are similar to classic lootboxes.  Rumors claim that the Zo’rane hive spent two years painstakingly optimizing the microtransaction algorithms of the game in order to extract maximum profit from the user. The game is banned in the Serene Republic of Elyra due to controversy involving the k’ois-related gameplay.

 

Considered by most video game critics to be the worst video game in recent history, Monkey King: The Video Game was intended to be a open-world RPG based on the highly successful Monkey King series. However, at launch, it was riddled with hundreds of bugs and glitches that made the game essentially unplayable. While the Cytherean studio behind it tried to patch up the game into a renderable state, rapidly declining player and sales numbers caused the studio to stop updating it, with the game being taken off store shelves in 2415. However, the physical edition of the game has recently become a hot-ticket collector’s item, with prices for a holodisc of the game going up to three thousand credits.