Startopia

aka: Spacestation, Startopia: Space City

Released

June 15th, 2001 on Windows

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Developers

Mucky Foot Productions Limited

Moby Score

8.1

#1,448 of 157K

Critics

85% (37)

Players

(37)

Ranking

#446 on Windows

Collected By

100 players

Genre: Simulation
Perspective: 1st-person
Diagonal-down
Pacing: Real-time
Gameplay: Managerial / business simulation
Setting: Post-apocalyptic
Sci-fi / futuristic

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Startopia is a real-time strategy/city management game. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, it is your job to rebuild the once-thriving network of space-stations. You must compete against several other enterprises, using economic and military means to expand your power.

The toroidal space stations are divided into three decks, each split into several sections with bulkheads. The droids construct buildings, deliver cargo, make repairs and can open sealed bulkheads. The first deck houses the basic building to maintain the station like a port for the alien visitors, a recharger for your working droids and an Energy collector that powers the different facilities. Energy also serves as currency. The inner Pleasure deck is home to shops, bars, discos and other entertainment. An outer deck called the Bio deck can be used to grow plants and trees and is used by the visiting aliens as a recreational deck.

Nine different alien races, each with their own abilities and preferences, can visit your station. Aliens can be hired to work for you in your facilities or as security. The game modes offered are missions, sandbox and multiplayer.

Spellings

太空城市 - Simplified Chinese spelling

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Credits (Windows version)

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Bugs	Guy Simmons Darran Eteo Tom Forsyth Tom Ireland Mark Rose Matthew Rosenfeld Jan Svarovsky
Colouring In	Gary Carr Richard Franke Mark Smart John Steels
Bone Bending	Chris Knott
Additional Bugs	Mike Diskett Mark Adami
Plate Spinning and Balancing	Wayne Imlach
Whistles, Beeps and Choons	Martin Oliver
Lead Vocals	William Franklin
Supporting Vocals	Tom Forsyth Graeme Monk Martin Oliver Guy Simmons John Steels A piggy
Chief Game Breakers	Marie Colwell Darren King
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Development

The game originally attracted the interest of publisher Psygnosis, but the team settled with Eidos based on their chemistry with that company.

Mucky Foot was founded by ex-Bullfrog members, so it's not too surprising to find a lot of Startopia's features borrowed from another Bullfrog game, namely Dungeon Keeper 2.

Easter egg

If you zoom up on the Workstations in the Laboratory, you can occasionally see the "Blue Screen of Death". The Turraken scientist will shake with anger and bash his fist against the screen, getting the Workstation back on track.

Movie reference

Slight spoiler: the speech given to the player during the end scene may sound familiar. It is based on the speech Darth Vader gives Luke Skywalker after their battle on Bespin in the Star Wars movie.

Patch

The English voice acting of the in-game AI adviser VAL, which was voiced by William Franklin, was considered so good that shortly after the German release a "patch" was made by fans, which replaced all the German voice acting with the English one. The file is about 300MB, which was quite a large amount back in 2001.