Artemis!

So some friend of mine got together to play Artemis yesterday.

This is the spaceship bridge simulator, with Helm / Weapons / Engineering / Science / Comms all have consoles, and the captain having none besides telling other people what to do.

They recently released an iOS version of the client, so we set it up with 1 laptop plugged into a TV as the main screen & server, and 4 iPads as the consoles, usually doubling up Science and Comms. The touch interface and portability of the iPads made this game more flexible than everyone having to have laptops, and I think it really helped.

We had great fun, our only problem was trying to also manage the baby, toddler, and the other 3 kids under 7 at the same time. The 2 older kids wanted to play, the toddler kept being a toddler and getting into things, and so it was a little like the ship was being boarded by creatures while fighting off dreadnoughts, requiring the captain to leave the bridge and take a team of marines to prevent the aliens (toddler) from removing the isolinear chips (cleaning supplies) from the engine room (under the sink).

Helm and Weapons are pretty straight forward, and Science was operated pretty well by a 6 year old, but we found that Engineering was very tricky to operate well. The iOS version, unlike the PC version, has no way to do presets on the various power settings, so it required constant fiddling.

Anyone else tried this?

I'm about to soon. Can't freaking wait.

Artemis is the best Star Trek / Star Fleet game ever. I am shocked, shocked you haven't played it.

I know at least a few forum members have played it, since I played it with them.

When I played it with Dean, he made certain Engineering was in another room so the captain would have to yell for them to GIVE MORE POWER TO THE ENGINES! And Engineering would have to shout back to reply that SHE CANNA TAKE MUCH MOOOOORE OF THIS! So good.

I got to play Engineering, Comms and Science. I'd say my highlight of the entire experience, hell, it could be my gaming highlight of 2012, is when we got to DS3 to see them under attack by an enemy dreadnought. We quickly prepped to fire on them, but in our haste it's possible our weapons officer didn't notice we already had a nuke in the tube. We all sat there and watched as the nuke streaked out toward the dreadnought, zipped right past it, took a sharp left turn and came flying back to detonate and obliterate DS3. Comms, "Captain, DS4 has hailed us to let us know that its deep space sensors have detected the destruction of DS3." Everyone, "WE KNOW!"

The best thing about Artemis is that it's very easy to pick up and play, or at least it seems that way. Then you end up blowing up your own space station.

So you can get a group playing quickly, then hilarity ensues.

Also, the captain needs a big screen and a special chair.

The captain has the very important job of distributing snacks and quoting from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

I need to put together a bunch of cheap laptops to be able to play this at Dragon*Con. I'd need 6 of them, yes?

It's been taking a while to get a group together, then agree on a date to play. :) :P

Or iPhones/iPads.

You can do less by doubling up, say, comms and science.

Artemis fans would enjoy this: http://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpace...can_a_group_of_ksp_fans_but_an_inexperienced/

Basically playing Kerbal Space Program with an astronaut and a mission control team!

You can use pretty cheap laptops. A month ago or so I verified I can run Artemis on my three year old Asus Eee PC netbook. I was hoping to play with a group for the first time last week but I wasn't able to make it.