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ICYMI: Mars Horizon 1 and 2 Panel – It’s Just Rocket Science

Hello Aurochnauts,

Delayed in orbit? Rest assured, the latest transmission from Digital Tabletop Fest 4: Roll of the Dice has arrived to keep you entertained! During the recent Steam festival we had a panel to discuss Mars Horizon 1 and Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life with ESA!

Tess and John from Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life were joined by European Space Agency experts, Alexia Mallet, Modelling and Simulation Engineer, and Pantelis Poulakis, Mission Project Manager discussing the risks and challenges with missions to Mars and how this real science translates to Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.

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DTFest's Event - Mars Horizon 1 and 2 Panel with ESA 🚀👨🏻‍🚀

[h2]The European Space Agency Panel - It’s Just Rocket Science – Risk in Real Life and in Games 🚀👨🏻‍🚀[/h2]

As part of Digital Tabletop Fest 4: Roll of the Dice, Tess and John from Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life are joined in an exclusive panel by Alexia Mallet, Modelling and Simulation Engineer, and Pantelis Poulakis, Mission Project Manager, from the European Space Agency (ESA).

Our guests will discuss a range of topics from the on-going mission to find life on Mars, and how real-life rocket science (and its challenges) play a part in the game design of Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life. Mark your calendars - this is one you don’t want to miss!

  • 📆 Date: Sunday 10th March
  • ⏰ Time: 7:00am PT | 10:00am PT | 1:00pm PT
[h3]Panelists[/h3] Moderators ESA Representatives
  • Alexia Mallet - Modelling and Simulation Manager - She/Her
  • Pantelis Poulakis - Mission Project Manager - He/Him
[h3]Important Links[/h3] https://www.esa.int/



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Win a bunch of our games to celebrate our birthday 🎂🎉

[h2]Enter the Auroch Digital 13th Birthday giveaway 🎂[/h2]
It’s Auroch Digital’s 13th birthday! 🎂 It’s been a wild and wonderful 13 years, we grown loads in that time, learned a lot, and released a load of great games. Check out our recent Birthday Blog Post to learn more about the history of our studio and what we’ve been up to over the years. 🎉

To celebrate the fact that our studio is now old enough to have it’s own Steam account, we are doing a giveaway to our loyal Aurochnauts. Enter our giveaway and you could win a digital bundle of a bunch of Auroch Digital games from over the years.

The Auroch Digital Birthday Bundle prize includes: [h3]How to enter
[/h3]But how do you enter this awesome Auroch Digital birthday giveaway? 🥳 All you need to do is sign up to our official Auroch Digital newsletter. We will be randomly selecting one lucky person, who is signed up to receive our monthly Auroch Digital newsletter, to win the Auroch Digital Birthday Bundle prize as a thank you for supporting us.
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[h3]What is the Auroch Digital Newsletter about? [/h3]
The Auroch Digital Newsletter comes out around the end of each month and is full of all the latest news about our studio including new game announcements, launches, beta and alpha invites, giveaways, jobs at the studio, as well as loads more exciting news. So by signing up you’ll get to stay up to date with all of our great goings, as well as be in with a chance to win the Auroch Digital Birthday Bundle prize.
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The giveaway closes on 26th October at Midnight so make sure to sign up before then to be in with a chance to win. Please see here the giveaway terms and conditions. You can see the Auroch Digital Privacy Policy here for more info: Auroch Digital Privacy Policy

We’re partnering with the European Space Agency for Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life!



Hey everyone, we hope you’re having a great August so far!

For those of you who are interested in all things space, you might have seen our upcoming game Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life where you’ll be leading your space agency to investigate the solar system and collect evidence of life. Earlier this year we announced our partnership with Professor Konstantin Batygin, and now we have another exciting partnership to share with you!

If you're one of those space lovers, you might have seen that the European Space Agency (ESA) are at Gamescom this year, which seems like a fitting time to let you all know that we are partnering with them once more for Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life!

The European Space Agency is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.

We are going to be working with the folks at ESA to make sure we can bring authenticity and real-world science into our sequel to Mars Horizon. As the sequel focuses on The Search for Life, we are excited to talk to them about biosignature detection, sample return, and much more. Their partnership ensures that we can create an authentic game in Mars Horizon 2, as we did with the first!

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Read more about our partnership on our blog!

WDC World Oceans Day Charity Sale 🐬



We are excited to announce that we are supporting WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation for World Oceans Day!


[h3]The WDC World Oceans Day Sale starts today and runs until 15th June, 10am PDT 2023, and you can save a fin-tastic 50% off Mars Horizon 1! We will also donate 20% of our net profits to WDC to support their conservation work.* [/h3]

Photo credit: Christopher Swann
[h2]WDC, Whale and Dolphin conservation is the leading global charity dedicated to the protection and conservation of whales and dolphins.[/h2]

Their expert-led teams in the UK, Europe, the Americas, and Australasia work across the whole spectrum of threats, from climate breakdown to accidental entanglements in fishing gear. They bring together, and work hand-in-hand with, businesses, philanthropists, scientists, NGOs, governments and grassroots communities to find solutions to the problems faced by whales and dolphins.

Their aim is to reverse the global decline in whale and dolphin populations by:


  • Stopping cruelty from deliberate harms such as whaling and captivity.
  • Creating safe seas, free from the threat of pollution, collisions with vessels and accidental entanglement in fishing gear.
  • Winning recognition of whales and dolphins as sentient, socially complex beings, and our allies in the fight against climate and nature breakdown.
  • Whales and dolphins are awe-inspiring. They are intelligent beings, vital for the health of the ocean and planet. They have suffered from terrible harm - deliberate and accidental - and their homes and populations are under threat. But it's not too late.
  • Together we can still help them recover and flourish and they can help us reconnect with the wild, and repair the damage we have caused.

If you want to read more about WDC, you can do so here: https://whales.org/

You can find many other amazing games in the sale here: https://bit.ly/OceansDaySteamSale23

[h3]Thank you for joining us and for supporting WDC! 🐳[/h3]

*20% of our net developer revenue from this sale will support WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation. Whale and Dolphin Conservation is a UK registered charity (no. 1014705)

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