One Small Step

“The Earth is destroyed – space miners stationed in the Asteroids struggle for survival. Gangs of Star Pirates loot old hulks, scavenge resources, attack and raid each other’s ships and fight for dominance of the stars.”

I’ve been looking over the game “Star Pirates” for a few days and I think it’s pretty cool. I am by no means a “gamer”. I have no overly developed thumbs and played D&D ONCE. I remember I named my character “Tarawa” and that that he died pretty fast. I also was around when “Pong” was new so you can see where I’m coming from.

Star Pirates reminds me of the “Escape Velocity” series of video games mixed with the old text based “you are in an empty room” type of game. You start as a lowly spaceship captain with a crew of yourself and use your luck, bravery, and cunning to build up your wealth, your weapons, your ship, and your reputation. It’s a text based browser game so you don’t have to download anything and you don’t have to hope the guy in the next cube doesn’t hear the explosions and weapons fire from your twitch shoot-em-up, a big advantage for lunchtime gaming.

Star Pirates also has a big community built right in. I mean, it’s on the web, right? I’ve only scratched the surface but I see vast amounts of communications between players. That’s one thing you don’t get from a video game unless you bring your Xbox 360 to work with you.

Oh, and before I forget, Star Pirates is FREE. Free is good. I like free.

I plan to keep playing so I can build up enough experience to take on my son. He kills me in 5 seconds every time we play “Halo 2”. I’m going to show him the game doesn’t always go to the faster thumb.

Check it out at www.starpirates.net.