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Title: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on May 11, 2018, 02:47:47 PM
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Scientifically inspired, race into space strategy game supported by the UK Space Agency, tasking players with choosing an agency and managing the entire campaign from launch to landing. Build bases, establish allegiances, manage your resources effectively, and be the first to Mars!


Homepage: Here (https://www.aurochdigital.com/marshorizonvideogame/)
Steam: Here (https://store.steampowered.com/app/765810/Mars_Horizon/)
Official forum: Here (https://steamcommunity.com/app/765810/discussions/)
YouTube: Here (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9437V2Bv2_Fxfsb7ZmkwzQ)


Single-player


Mars Horizon - Reveal Trailer

https://youtu.be/2Gqbz8C8bX0


About

In Mars Horizon the player is tasked with leading a major space agency from the dawn of the space age though to humanity's journey to Mars.

Players run a government space agency from when the first rockets launched into the atmosphere, right through to the first crewed mission to Mars.

Research new tech, expand your agency base, build rockets, send satellites into orbit, and launch a variety of missions. As the player, you’re in charge of every element of the journey into space.


Features

•   YOUR RACE INTO SPACE: All your decision-making and strategic prowess counts. Will you be patient in crafting the most high-tech base or strive to get the first human on Mars?
•   SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY: Auroch Digital has been developing Mars Horizon in affiliation with the UK Space Agency to ensure absolute detail in space travel, engineering, and the preparation needed for a successful mission into space.
•   CREW MANAGEMENT: Management is a key aspect of Mars Horizon and you’ll need to hire the right crew to successfully build, launch, and land on Mars.
•   DIPLOMATIC ALLIANCES: Enter into diplomatic partnerships with other agencies by sharing the rewards or going it alone.
•   BUILD & DESIGN: Construct your dream rocket from multiple vehicle parts and store its design for later missions.
•   COMPONENT EXPERIENCE: Level up your vehicle parts after repeated mission use by increasing its reliability, and upgrade slots.
•   UNIQUE CONTRACTORS: Agencies have a number of contractors they can call on for construction of vehicles, each with their own selection of unique benefits...


Pre-Alpha Screens

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Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on June 23, 2019, 03:31:31 PM
We are off to Mars! (sort of....) and an update!
22 JUN @ 9:45AM   - AUROCH DIGITAL

We're going to be doing a big update of the Steam page very soon, and with this will come new screenshots, a new video and lots more information.

Also (and very excitingly for us) we're off to meet with the staff at the European Space Agency next week! (To talk ExoMars http://exploration.esa.int/mars/ and other things!) You can follow our social media channels to see what we are getting up too here:

Auroch Digital's Twitter https://twitter.com/aurochdigital

Auroch Digital's Facebook[www.facebook.com]

Oh we'll also be recording interviews and more for our podcast, so make sure you hit that subscribe button on your player of choice! https://www.aurochdigital.com/podcast/

Thanks!

Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on July 13, 2019, 12:36:36 PM
Want a free trip to Space?
12 Jul @ 3:06pm - AurochMatt   

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Hi everyone!

Two bits of news for you:

New look Steam page

We've done a bit of spring cleaning on the Steam page! What do you think? All just in time for the second bit of news...

Alpha Weekend

Do you want to get your hands on an early access alpha build of Mars Horizon? Well, today is your lucky day!

We are looking for people to take part in an alpha weekend of our game and get your thoughts on how it is coming along and what else we can do to improve it?

The Alpha will start on Friday 19th July and finish on Monday 22nd 2019. This also so happens to be the weekend of the 50th anniversary of the moon landings!

Interested?

How to get involved?

Step 1: Sign up and add your email address to  our system (https://aurochdigital.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=80f9f24ab53812fcb7ca58b1c&id=855060628f)
Step 2: Wait for your confirmation email
Step 3: Then, when the codes arrive we'll send you a Steam code
Step 4: Log into Steam and redeem your code (there is a guide on how to do that here)
Step 5: Download and install Mars Horizon
Step 6: Launch rockets and send someone to space!
Step 7: Fill in the feedback form
Step 8: Get a free copy of the soundtrack when the game launches

On Monday 22nd July at 10:00 (UK Time) the keys will expire. The feedback form will close on Friday 26th July at 12:00 PM (UK Time).

So... what are you waiting for? Sign up now!

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Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on March 17, 2020, 03:01:25 PM
Mars Horizon page update
Tue, 17 March 2020

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New screenshots, new information, and teaser trailer!


Hi everyone,

We’ve just had a big overhaul on the Mars Horizon Steam page. We've been working hard on making Mars Horizon as awesome as possible and we wanted to show you how far the game has come.

Make sure you check it out, we've got new screenshots, new information, and a teaser trailer.

Wishlist the game too as we've got some exciting news coming very soon you won't want to miss!

In the meantime, head on over to our Discord to chat everything Mars Horizon with us.

Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on March 20, 2020, 12:17:45 PM
The Mars Horizon beta will take place on 27th April 2020! 🚀
Fri, 20 March 2020

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Make sure you're signed up to take part
The Mars Horizon beta is happening on the 27th April 2020! Sign up here to make sure you receive a key


https://youtu.be/66ueJeQKUwU


What will the beta include?

The beta allows you to experience the journey as far as the Moon. The full game takes you to Mars and beyond.

•   Undertake 14 milestone missions (out of 36 in the full game)
•   Choose to take on approximately 30 optional request missions
•   3 playable space agencies: ESA, NASA and Russia (5 in the full game)
•   Approximately 8 hours gameplay
•   Dozens of rocket parts, upgrades and payloads to research
•   Multiple buildings to unlock and construct
•   Hire, fire and even rename astronauts
•   Exciting narrative twists which can aid or hinder your goals


Please note: The Mars Horizon beta is a sample of the full game and is still in development.

The full game is coming to PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch in 2020.

Come and chat to us - drop into our Discord to chat all things Mars Horizon.


Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on April 24, 2020, 12:34:53 PM
The Irregular Corporation is publishing Mars Horizon!
Thu, 23 April 2020


Check out the brand new announcement trailer as well

https://youtu.be/qWTsQ2TdCjk


We’ve got some very exciting news on Mars Horizon - we’ve signed to a publisher! The excellent people of The Irregular Corporation are now our publisher for Mars Horizon and we’re over the moons (of Phobos and Deimos) about it. Read more about it in their official announcement.

For those of you who are new here, Mars Horizon is a strategy simulation game about leading a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars. We’ve created our game with the input and support of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the UK Space Agency bringing an unprecedented level of authenticity, realism and legitimacy to the gameplay and scenarios.

We’ve got a brand new announcement trailer to celebrate - check it out.

We’re really excited about working with The Irregular Corporation and sharing our game with their community, as well as our own. We’ve got loads of great stuff coming up so stay tuned. Check out The Irregular Corporation on Twitter or jump into their Discord to say hi.

Don’t forget, you can still sign up to the Beta here. Not long to go until you can start launching rockets! Or come and join our Discord to talk to the team and our lovely community of Aurochnauts.

Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on April 29, 2020, 01:37:59 PM
Mars Horizon's beta has taken off! 🚀
Mon, April 27, 2020


Redeem your Steam key now


You can now play the Mars Horizon beta! Check your inbox for a key

https://youtu.be/qWTsQ2TdCjk


If you signed up for a Mars Horizon beta key you should now be able to find it in your inbox. If it's not there make sure to check your Spam folder, just in case.

Haven't signed up for the beta? Don't miss out! You can sign up here until 1st May at 4pm GMT to receive a beta key. We will be sending these out in waves so keep checking back if you haven’t received yours yet.

Quick info

The beta will be running until 4th May 2020 at 9am GMT. Redeem your key before then and get as much play time in as possible. The beta will not be playable after then.

The Mars Horizon beta is only available on Windows through Steam. It's just a sample of the full game as Mars Horizon is still in active development. With your feedback we hope to make it even better.

The beta allows you to experience the journey as far as the Moon. The full game takes you to Mars and beyond.

Need help?

If you're struggling to redeem your beta key or with installing the game on your PC, check out our FAQ. It should answer the most common questions and issues.

If the FAQ doesn't solve your problem, you'll find an email address in there that you can use to ask us any specific questions. You can also drop into our Discord to ask us and the community questions about Mars Horizon. The full game will have a tutorial created based on feedback from the beta. For now we’ve written a quick start guide which should introduce you to the game well enough.

I found a bug!

If you came across a bug while playing the Mars Horizon beta please report it in this bug thread on the Mars Horizon Steam page. We will be monitoring this thread throughout the beta. This should be enough information for us for many of the bugs but if we need more information we will reach out to you and request further information if you are happy to share this with us.

Finished?

If you enjoyed the beta we'd really appreciate it if you wishlist Mars Horizon on Steam. It helps us out a lot and means you'll get notifications about the game in the future, such as when it's released and goes on sale.

We'll also be emailing you a feedback survey on 4th May. Please take a few minutes to fill it out! The survey is where you can give us your impressions of the beta and tell us what you liked and didn't like as much. You can also tell us about any bugs you came across in the survey, too.


Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on June 12, 2020, 01:10:02 AM
The Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition with Mars Horizon
Thu, 11 June 2020

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Play the Mars Horizon demo and watch our 2 special livestreams!

We've got some exciting news, Mars Horizon is part of The Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition, running from June 16th @ 5pm GMT until June 22nd @ 5pm GMT! 👨‍🚀  https://store.steampowered.com/sale/gamefestival

The Steam Game Festival shines a spotlight on games set to be released within the next year. You can try out demos, connect with the developers, and wishlist the games for a reminder of when they launch! Here's how to get the most out of The Steam Game Festival.

Play the Mars Horizon demo
We will have a demo of Mars Horizon - available to download from the Mars Horizon Steam store page for you to play during the festival. Choose from 3 space agencies, play through Era 1 of space exploration, build your base, design rockets, and put the first human in space!

Please Note: The Mars Horizon demo is a shortened version of the Mars Horizon beta. It does not include any beta feedback changes implemented into it - we are still working hard on these!

Check out our special livestreams

We will be doing 2 livestreams during the festival. Both streams will have special guests and the devs on stream available for live chat. One of the livestreams will also include a special feature reveal - we will be revealing the final 2 playable space agencies! Which ones do you think they will be?

For both of the livestreams we will be accepting and answering questions for our guests and the devs in our Discord. Make sure you're a member to get your questions answered.

Further details on the livestreams, and our special guests, will be coming soon so check back next week!


Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on June 16, 2020, 02:33:56 PM
Mars Horizon - Feature reveal, plus European Space Agency AMA and livestream
16 June 2020

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Find out the final 2 Space Agencies you'll be able to play as in Mars Horizon and chat with the European Space Agency!

Watch our Livestream
We've got an extra special livestream of Mars Horizon on Friday June 19th, 3-5pm UK / 4-6pm CEST / 7-9am PT!

We'll be playing the game, picking up after the demo ends, and revealing the final 2 space agencies featured in the game.

We'll also be joined by Emmet Fletcher, Head of the ESA Branding and Partnerships Office at the European Space Agency. He'll be telling us all about the challenges missions face in real life and chatting about what its like working with rockets and astronauts.

Emmet and the devs will be live to answer your questions and chat to our Community in our Discord!

About the game
Mars Horizon is a strategy simulation game about leading a major space agency and guiding humanity to Mars. It allows you to write your own alternate history of space exploration, building rockets, launching payloads, assembling your launch centre, and directing missions from the control room. The team has made the game truly authentic as it was created with support from the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency.

Join our Community
We will be taking questions over on the Auroch Discord to answer on stream. Drop into the Discord to get your questions answered and to chat to our awesome community about Mars Horizon and space!

https://youtu.be/qWTsQ2TdCjk


Upcoming Event Starts Fri, 19 June 2020

Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on June 19, 2020, 03:10:05 PM
Journey to Mars!
Wed, 17 June 2020

In the demo of Mars Horizon, you can choose from 3 space agencies, play through Era 1 of space exploration, build your base, design rockets, and put the first human in space!

Mars Horizon is a strategy simulation game about leading a major space agency and guiding humanity to Mars. It allows you to write your own alternate history of space exploration, building rockets, launching payloads, assembling your launch centre and directing missions from the control room. The team has made the game truly authentic as it was created with support from the European Space Agency.

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Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on June 27, 2020, 01:04:00 AM
Mars Horizon space agency livestreams - Watch now!
Fri, 26 June 2020

Plus podcast episodes and our Discord
 
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Thanks to everyone who played the Mars Horizon demo, wishlisted the game, and tuned into our livestreams during the Steam Game Festival! We had a great time talking to everyone about our game and we have even more feedback from our community to help us keep improving Mars Horizon.

Watch the livestreams

Don't worry if you missed the livestreams during the event, you can watch them now over on Youtube.

•   WATCH THE MARS HORIZON LIVESTREAM WITH UKSA
https://youtu.be/ybhPJiuCWq8


Andrew Kuh, Head of International Spaceflight Policy from the UK Space Agency, tells us about working for a real space agency, micro gravity, and bacon sandwiches in space!

•   WATCH THE MARS HORIZON LIVESTREAM WITH ESA

https://youtu.be/dzPuYfFYqEQ

Emmet Fletcher, Head of the ESA Branding and Partnerships Office at the European Space Agency, tells us about the astronauts he’s met, designing spacecrafts, and ESA collaborations with other countries.

Mike and Jem also revealed the final 2 playable space agencies in Mars Horizon, as well as a run down of all the improvements we’ve made following the beta feedback.

Podcast episodes

Want more Mars Horizon goodness? We've got a podcast with lots of interesting episodes about the game. We've got episodes about:

•   The most recent updates to Mars Horizon
•   Visiting the European Space Agency
•   A brief history of space games

as well as loads more episodes about everything from Harry Potter to Ghostbusters!

CHECK OUT THE AUROCH DIGITAL PODCAST
https://www.aurochdigital.com/podcast

Join the Discord

We've got a thriving community of Aurochnauts in our Discord chatting about Mars Horizon, space, gaming, consoles, crumbless nuggets, and more.

We share interesting space stories, updates about our games, and have a nice time chatting. Drop in and become an Aurochnaut in the coolest community around!

JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/dQsdfvZ


Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on July 17, 2020, 01:56:58 AM
LIVE NOW! 🔴 Mars Horizon Livestream with a Robotic Exploration Expert
Thu, 16 July 2020

We chat to Paul Smith from the UK Space Agency and ask him your questions

LIVE NOW! 🔴 Ask the UK Space Agency questions

We're live right now streaming Mars Horizon and doing an AMA with the UK Space Agency. The stream is running from Thursday 16th July, 2.10pm-3.30 pm UK / 3.10pm-4.30pm CEST / 6.10am-7.30am PT!

WATCH THE LIVESTREAM OVER ON TWITCH RIGHT NOW https://www.twitch.tv/irregularcorp


Paul Smith, Robotic Exploration Programme Manager from the UK Space Agency, joins us to play Mars Horizon. Paul's work focuses on the robotic exploration of Mars and the Moon. He'll be talking to us about the future of Space Travel, colonising other planets, growing plants in space and more! Give us your questions for Paul in the Auroch Discord.

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Here's a screenshot from our last livestream with the UK Space Agency with guest Andrew Kuh.

Join our Community
We will be taking questions over on the Auroch Discord to answer on stream. Drop into the Discord to get your questions answered and to chat to our awesome community about Mars Horizon and space!

https://youtu.be/qWTsQ2TdCjk


Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on August 07, 2020, 12:54:13 AM
LIVESTREAM! 🔴 Latest build of Mars Horizon streamed with the UK Space Agency🚀

Upcoming Event StartsWed, 12 August 2020 2:30 PM BST

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We chat to Libby Jackson, the Human Exploration Programme Manager from the UK Space Agency, on stream

LIVESTREAM! 🔴 Ask the UK Space Agency your questions

We're streaming the latest build of Mars Horizon, with some new updates since you last saw it - come check out our new astronaut portraits!

We're also live chatting to Libby Jackson, the Human Exploration Programme Manager from the UK Space Agency.

Livestream details:

📆 Wednesday 12th August
⏰ 2.30pm-3.30 pm UK / 3.30pm-4.30pm CEST / 6.30am-7.30am PT!
🚀 twitch.tv/irregularcorp

WATCH THE LIVESTREAM OVER ON TWITCH

Libby Jackson is the Human Exploration Programme Manager for the UK Space Agency. One of Britain’s foremost human spaceflight experts, she has worked as the Columbus flight director on missions to the International Space Station. She also managed the hugely successful UK Space Agency education and outreach program that supported Tim Peake’s mission.

Give us your questions for Libby in the Auroch Discord.

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Here's a screenshot of Mike showing off his tomato in our last livestream with the UK Space Agency with guest Paul Smith.

Join our Community
We will be taking questions over on the Auroch Discord to answer on stream. Drop into the Discord to get your questions answered and to chat to our awesome community about Mars Horizon and space!

https://youtu.be/qWTsQ2TdCjk

Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on September 26, 2020, 02:40:10 AM
Play the free Mars Horizon demo in The Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition 🍂☕
Fri, 25 September 2020

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The Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition is running from October 7th until October 13th! 👨‍🚀
Mars Horizon is part of The Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition, running from October 7th until October 13th! 👨‍🚀

The Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition is an event that shines a spotlight on games set to be released within the next six months. During the event you can check out upcoming releases, try them out with time-limited demos, connect with the devs, and add games to your wishlist for a reminder when they release! Here's how to get the most out of The Steam Game Festival.

Play the Mars Horizon demo
Check out the demo - available to download from the Mars Horizon Steam store page. Choose from 5 space agencies, play through Era 1 of space exploration, build your base, design rockets, and put the first human in space!
This new demo includes all the improvements from the beta play testing and from previous demo feedback, so Mars Horizon plays better than ever. ✨

Check out the Mars Horizon demo

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Chat to us on our livestream
A new member of the crew joins the Auroch Digital space agency! Allie joins Jem for a special livestream during the festival. This will be broadcast straight to the Mars Horizon Steam store page and we will be taking questions over the Auroch Discord to answer on stream.

Jem and Allie start their own Space Agency livestream 👩‍🚀👩‍🚀

    Thursday 8th October
    2 - 3.30pm UK Time / 3 - 4.30pm CEST / 6 - 7.30 am PT
    Allie and Jem set up their own space agency and answer your questions about Mars Horizon. Join the stream to help them run mission control. Will they be more successful than Jem and Mike? Will they win the space race? Will there be crumbless nuggets? Come chat to the crew in the Auroch Discord to find out.

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Wishlist Mars Horizon
Please Wishlist Mars Horizon to stay up to date with all the latest news and release date!

We're a small developer and wishlisting makes a big difference to how many people see Mars Horizon. If you’d like to know more we've written a blog post on how Wishlists help us.

https://youtu.be/qWTsQ2TdCjk



Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on October 08, 2020, 01:11:08 AM
Run your own Space Agency in Mars Horizon! 🛰
Wed, 7 October 2020

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Will your agency put the first human in space? 👨🚀

Check out the Mars Horizon demo - available to download from the Mars Horizon store page during the festival 🚀

Mars Horizon is a strategy simulation game about leading a major space agency and guiding humanity to Mars. The demo allows you to:
•   ⭐ Choose from 5 space agencies
•   ⭐ Or create your own!
•   ⭐ Play through Era 1 of space exploration
•   ⭐ Build your base
•   ⭐ Design rockets
•   ⭐ Put the first human in space


This new demo includes all the improvements from the beta play testing and from previous demo feedback, so Mars Horizon plays better than ever. ✨

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About the Game
Mars Horizon is a strategy simulation game about leading a major space agency and guiding humanity to Mars. It allows you to write your own alternate history of space exploration, building rockets, launching payloads, assembling your launch centre, and directing missions from the control room. The team has made the game truly authentic as it was created with support from the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency.

Join our community of Aurochnauts in our Discord https://discord.com/invite/dQsdfvZ

https://youtu.be/qWTsQ2TdCjk



Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on October 16, 2020, 02:55:17 AM
Mars Horizon - Video game vs. Board game
Thu, 22 October 2020

What's the best way to get to Mars?

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Game Designer Tomas Rawlings talks to devs Jem and Allie about the creation of Mars Horizon the video game and Mars Horizon: Blast Off the board game!

Both games are about running your own space agency and landing the first crewed mission on Mars. Hear about the differences between the games and how they adapted the themes and gameplay for physical and digital. You can also learn how Auroch Digital worked with the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency to make both games accurate, accessible, and how they captured the excitement of mission control!

Lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars in this strategy simulation game. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of Space exploration. Created with support from the European Space Agency.

Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on October 16, 2020, 02:59:27 AM
The Mars Games Panel
Thu, 22 October 2020

Join a conversation among experts in game design and Mars exploration

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Mars is often featured in both videogames and board games. But why are we fascinated with the red planet, and landing humans on it? How long until this is a reality and how do games represent the challenges of getting to, landing on, and living on Mars? Find out all about games and Mars with four incredible experts from different areas of gaming and space;

Sue Horne
Head of Space Exploration
UK Space Agency & ESA ExoMars Team

Dr. Jacob Fryxelius
Creator & Designer of Terraforming Mars https://store.steampowered.com/app/800270/Terraforming_Mars/
FryxGames

Dr. Sian Proctor
Professor at South Mountain Community College,
Geoscientist, Analog Astronaut

Mike Roush
Mike Roush, Co-Founder of Choice Provisions and Creator of Tharsis https://store.steampowered.com/app/323060/Tharsis/

Dr. Tomas Rawlings (Moderator)
CEO of Auroch Digital and developer on Mars Horizon and Mars Horizon: Blast Off!

Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on October 17, 2020, 02:38:26 AM
Astronaut Tim Peake is going to play Mars Horizon! 👩🚀🤩
16 Oct 2020

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Plus, win your very own Official Mars Horizon Spacesuit and astronaut snacks!🍦


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We’ve got an awesome event coming up for Mars Horizon - a real life astronaut is going to stream our game next week!!!

We are really happy to announce that European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake will be streaming Mars Horizon live with Xbox over on Twitch!

Join the chat to ask Tim your questions and to win some awesome Mars Horizon prizes too! 👩🚀
•   📆 Tuesday 20th October
•   ⏰ 3.00pm - 4.30pm BST
•   WATCH THE LIVESTREAM ON TWITCH https://www.twitch.tv/xbox


Mars Horizon bundle giveaway

During the stream, as well as playing the game, the XboxOn team and Tim will be trying astronaut ice-cream, astronaut fruit snacks, and doing a giveaway where you can win awesome Mars Horizon prizes including:
•   Mars Horizon Space Suit with Official mission patch 👩🚀

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•   Another Official Mars Horizon mission patch 🚀
•   Astronaut Ice-cream 🍦
•   Astronaut freeze-dried fruit snacks 🍎
•   A code for Mars Horizon on Xbox One (when the game is out) 🎮

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Join us in our Discord during the stream and geek out with us over how awesome it is that a real astronaut is playing our game! 🤩

Tim Peake became the first official British astronaut to walk in space while on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2016. He spent six years training for the mission, beating 8,000 other applicants who responded to an ad from the ESA entitled, ‘Do you want to be an astronaut?’. Tim worked on every one of his 186 days in space with the majority of his experiments focussing on what space does to human physiology.

He also, with help from celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal, enjoyed the first bacon sandwich to ever be consumed in space! 🥪


Upcoming Event Starts Tue, 20 October 2020

Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on October 20, 2020, 02:20:17 AM
We have lift off! Mars Horizon release date announcement 👨‍🚀
Mon, 19 October 2020

Soon you'll be able to start your own Space Agency and head to Mars

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5, 4, 3, 2, 1... LIFT OFF!🚀

Mars Horizon is launching 17th November 2020!⭐

We're super excited to announce that Mars Horizon will be coming to PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch on November 17th 2020! The Auroch Digital team, along with our publisher The Irregular Corporation, have been working hard on the game and we can’t wait to share it with you.

The game was created with the support of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the UK Space Agency. Both organisations have been integral to making Mars Horizon the game we wanted it to be so we'd like to say an extra big thank you to them!

Very soon you will be able to run your own space agency and get humanity to the red planet. In the meantime, we've got a demo of the game for you to try on our Steam page, make sure to check it out!

https://youtu.be/8U2dUBaS5i0


About Mars Horizon 🚀
Mars Horizon is a strategy simulation game in which you lead a major space agency as you guide humanity to Mars. Construct a base, design and build rockets, conduct missions throughout the Solar System, and write your own history of space exploration. Created with support from the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency. Check out the announcement trailer to see the game in action.

Join us in our Discord https://discord.com/invite/dQsdfvZ and come chat to us and the Aurochnauts and lets get hyped together! 🤩




Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on November 03, 2020, 11:53:28 PM
Mars Horizon livestream with Allie and Jem's Space Agency 👨🚀
Tue, 3 November 2020

Join this Mars Horizon livestream for more adventures from ASA 👨🚀

The disastrous duo carry on with the Auroch Space Agency (ASA) as it went so well last time. Tune in to see them blow up rockets and to hear about our giveaway going live today! (A giveaway announcement post will follow shortly!)

📆 Tuesday 3rd November
⏰ 3 - 4.30pm GMT / 4 - 5.30pm CET / 7 - 8.30 am PT
🔗 twitch - irregularcorp
•   WATCH THE LIVESTREAM🔴 https://www.twitch.tv/irregularcorp

Chat to the Aurochnauts and send us your questions in the Auroch Discord:
•   ASK YOUR QUESTIONS IN THE DISCORD

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Title: Re: Mars Horizon
Post by: Asid on November 10, 2020, 11:42:06 PM
Friday the 13th CURSED STREAM 🎃
10 Nov 2020

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It's time to blow up some rockets 🎆🎇
ASA are back for a very unlucky livestream 👨🚀

ASA have decided to launch a new branch of their space agency on Friday the 13th. They will be selecting the unluckiest traits for their agency to see what mayhem they can create. 😱 What could go wrong? Don't worry, the Jemkin will be there for luck🎃

📆 Friday 13th November
⏰ 4.00 - 5.000pm GMT / 5.00 - 6.00pm CET / 8.00 - 9.00 am PT
🔗 twitch - irregularcorp
•   WATCH THE LIVESTREAM🔴
https://www.twitch.tv/irregularcorp

Chat to the Aurochnauts and send us your questions in the Auroch Discord:
•   CHAT TO US IN THE DISCORD
https://discord.com/invite/dQsdfvZ


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Upcoming Event Starts Fri, 13 November 2020