Mars Horizon News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgEemq47zjs

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!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/765810/Mars_Horizon/

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[h2]Check out the Mars Horizon demo - available to download from the Mars Horizon store page during the festival 🚀[/h2]

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. ✨



[h2]About the Game[/h2]
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.

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[h2]Watch our Livestream[/h2]
We've got a special livestream of Mars Horizon on Thursday 8th October
2 - 3.30pm UK Time / 3 - 4.30pm CEST / 6 - 7.30 am PT!

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.

Join the stream to help Jem and Allie 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.



[h2]About the game[/h2]
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.

[h2]Join our Community[/h2]
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!

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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.

[h2]Play the Mars Horizon demo[/h2]
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



[h2]Chat to us on our livestream[/h2]
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.

[h3]Jem and Allie start their own Space Agency livestream 👩‍🚀👩‍🚀[/h3]

• [h3]Thursday 8th October
  2 - 3.30pm UK Time / 3 - 4.30pm CEST / 6 - 7.30 am PT[/h3]
  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.
  

[h2]Wishlist Mars Horizon[/h2]
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.

Wishlist Mars Horizon

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[h2]PANEL LIVESTREAM! 🔴 A panel of experts discuss board games that features Mars[/h2]
The UK Games Expo is the largest Hobby Games Convention in the UK and this year it's going digital. We will be there representing our game Mars Horizon: BLAST OFF! This was inspired by Mars Horizon - it’s creation came about through pen and paper prototypes of the digital version. Read the full story in our blog.

We're running a panel discussion about boardgames and Mars with three incredible experts from different areas of gaming and space.

[h3]Gaming and Mars - What do the games that use Mars as inspiration get right and what do they get wrong?

📆 Date: 22nd August
⏰ Time: 4pm - 5pm BST
👨‍🚀 Host and guests:[/h3]

• Dr. Tomas Rawlings (Moderator) - CEO of Auroch Digital
  
• Dr. Jacob Fryxelius - Creator & designer of Terraforming Mars
  
• Dr. Sian Proctor - Geoscientist & Analog Astronaut
  
• Paul Smith - Robotic Exploration Programme Manager at the UK Space Agency
  

[h2]🚀 WATCH THE LIVESTREAM HERE 🚀[/h2]