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Redshirt

The Tiniest Shark Developer

Positech Publisher

2013-11-13 Release

Strategy RPG Simulation SingleplayerTags

Game News Posts: 12

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Mixed (211 reviews)

http://www.positech.co.uk/redshirt/

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Redshirt Linux [215.19 M]

Redshirt updated to v1.02!

As of last night, Redshirt was updated to v1.02! This addresses many of the bugs which have come up in the first week since release. A changelist is as follows: REDSHIRT v1.02

Fixed: Away Missions now have larger, more easily readable text.
Fixed: Save location bug: Some players had been reporting problems saving their games. Games are now newly saved to a "Saved Games" folder under your My Documents folder in Windows, or Documents in Mac. Your existing save-games will be moved automatically.
Fixed: Duplicate achievements bug
Fixed: Omega Bar ticket bug
Fixed: NPCs are more likely to 'like' statuses.
Fixed: No longer assigned aspirations you've already completed.
Fixed: end screen now actually plays sound effect & music
Fixed: Recycling/trashing S.H.O.P. items bug: this now works properly, and actually pays the appropriate amount of KarmaCreds.
Fixed: Job rewards listings now properly reflect any minuses to happiness and/or health.
Tweak: Ability to buy two tickets (instead of capping at 1), so a friend can also be saved
Tweak: Away Missions now feature a small chance of having to choose a friend to leave behind on an away mission!

Please note: if anyone is having trouble seeing their existing save games after updating to this new version, please read this thread.

[ 2013-11-20 10:35:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

Redshirt updated to v1.02!

As of last night, Redshirt was updated to v1.02! This addresses many of the bugs which have come up in the first week since release. A changelist is as follows: REDSHIRT v1.02

Fixed: Away Missions now have larger, more easily readable text.
Fixed: Save location bug: Some players had been reporting problems saving their games. Games are now newly saved to a "Saved Games" folder under your My Documents folder in Windows, or Documents in Mac. Your existing save-games will be moved automatically.
Fixed: Duplicate achievements bug
Fixed: Omega Bar ticket bug
Fixed: NPCs are more likely to 'like' statuses.
Fixed: No longer assigned aspirations you've already completed.
Fixed: end screen now actually plays sound effect & music
Fixed: Recycling/trashing S.H.O.P. items bug: this now works properly, and actually pays the appropriate amount of KarmaCreds.
Fixed: Job rewards listings now properly reflect any minuses to happiness and/or health.
Tweak: Ability to buy two tickets (instead of capping at 1), so a friend can also be saved
Tweak: Away Missions now feature a small chance of having to choose a friend to leave behind on an away mission!

Please note: if anyone is having trouble seeing their existing save games after updating to this new version, please read this thread.

[ 2013-11-20 10:35:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

Redshirt is the comedy sci-fi sim about social networking aboard a space station, starring the station's most ambitious low-ranking peon: you! Navigate the professional and interpersonal politics of the ubiquitous "Spacebook" to curry favor among friends and colleagues. As intense intergalactic conflict rages around you, it's up to you to accrue those all-important "likes" on your status updates! Whether you're looking for love, opportunities for promotion, or even a chance to play Zero-G golf with the captain, you can schmooze your way through social circles and claw your way up the career ladder. Perhaps you too can finally achieve the dream of an off-station transfer, or even the Redshirt's opportunity of a lifetime: being sent on an away-mission!

"Redshirt’s take on science fiction clichés is amusing, telling short stories in the form of status updates and messages, but the activity of playing the game is rather intense, even though it’s a turn-based life management sim. As if accidentally snubbing friends and causing heartbreak wasn’t enough, a short while into your misadventure, a disturbing message arrives. A calamity is coming. The station is doomed. People will die." - Rock Paper Shotgun

"Spying on an ex in a video game even though there’s no tangible benefit to doing so WHATS GOING ON" - Red Door Blue Key

Redshirt received an Honorable Mention in the 2014 IGF Awards for Excellence in Narrative!

Social Networking, But Not As We Know It...

Redshirt is a comedy sci-fi social networking simulation game. Create & customise your character, a brand new arrival aboard space station Megalodon-9, where you start your career on the lowest possible rung: a Transporter Accident Cleanup Technician. You also realise that everyone on the station is required to use the proprietary social network, "Spacebook"!

You hear rumours something terrible will happen soon aboard the station, and it's up to you to stop being a disposable nobody before it's too late! You can do this by interacting (through Spacebook!) with randomly-generated, AI-driven characters with their own unique personalities, trying to win friends and influence station citizens. Or, you can focus on what skills you need to climb the fairly-extensive career tree. Or, save up your KarmaCreds. Or, flirt your way up the station. The choice is yours, and there are different strategies. You just have a limited time in which to do it, otherwise... terrible things will happen. You are a Redshirt, after all!

Features

Satirical, tongue-in-cheek social simulation, filled with humour and political intrigue.
Detailed character creation: choose from 5 different species, from human to tentacled squid creature!
Each game is unique: Megalodon-9 is full of procedurally generated AI-driven characters, each with their own random personalities and profile pictures.
Customise station settings: define the kinds of personalities you'll encounter, from friendly chatterboxes to self-obsessed bigots.
Update your Spacebook, strategically 'like' statuses, and send private messages to your fellow station citizens.
Arrange Spacebook 'events' with your friends, frenemies, and even higher-ranking officers, to influence your relationships and skills.
Multiple routes to success through turn-based gameplay, from skills-based diligence, to romance, to charismatic schmoozing.
Navigate an extensive, non-linear career tree, by gaining the right skills... or just by making the right friends.
Make friends and manage romantic relationships -- if you can handle the drama!
Strategically manage your interests and skills.
Buy items in the Self-Help Object Purveyor (S.H.O.P.) to increase your stats and skills, from RoboCats to illegal hoverbikes!
Away missions!
Humorous parody of social networking culture.
Puns! So many puns.