And it’s there that Starbound starts to show its own personality, providing a unique spread of seven races that could only be the brainchild of someone high on sugary Lucky Charms or, I don’t know, Galactic Crunch. But you can also choose what race you are. To this end, the character customization is uncomplicated: you can choose hair style and color, clothing style, and skin tone. And so, not only does it want you to be able to do anything you like, it wants you to be able to do it as whoever you want to be. That grand aim of Starbound ’s is ubiquitous.
Which makes sense: Tiy was, in fact, the lead artist on Terraria. The game provides uncountable discoverable treasures like this, all of them contained in a sandbox that bears many similarities to the one provided in Re-Logic’s Terraria (2011). I even found a rare, playable violin worth a lot of pixels-the game’s currency-simply by exploring a fungus-filled cavern for a few minutes. This is done, in part, by making it almost too easy, as with just a little time and effort you can stumble upon uninhabited bungalows surrounded by bizarre fauna, jungles of pink-leafed tentacle-shaped trees, or other such fascinating settings, all available just beyond the cold hunk of metal that is your spaceship. It’s a game that wants to give you a lot, maybe even everything, but above all it emphasizes and encourages classic exploration. Finn “Tiy” Brice, the project leader of the game, even called Starbound his “dream game,” one that captures the charm of 16-bit classics and throws it all into a blender with vast numbers of vivid, randomly generated worlds. It’s a game that wants to give you a lot, maybe even everythingĬhildhood wish fulfillment is the defining element of Starbound. Yes, it says, there are bazooka-wielding penguins and little gnome people up in space. It’s here, at this point, that Starbound zooms in, a game that wants to grant your wildest imaginings, science fiction without the leash. So perhaps it’s only natural that even at a young age, humans are predisposed to an inexplicable fascination with exploring and inhabiting the mysterious void that lies beyond Earth. And maybe it’s why many of us, as kids, couldn’t help but stare up at the vast, velvet expanse of the night sky, watching the stars glimmer, and wonder, “What else could possibly be up there?” ” It’s why Elon Musk’s SpaceX was able to raise over $1 billion for spaceship manufacturing from companies like Google, with rocket rides for the public booked out for years. Socrates asserted that “man must rise above Earth to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only then will he fully understand the world in which he lives.” This sentiment is at least in part why NASA was established, and why investments are made in “ NASA’s grand dream.
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