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Oh God, it's been 9 years since I started writing about the #spacelarpcafe

Oh God, it's been 9 years since I started writing about the #spacelarpcafe

Oh God, it's been 9 years since I started writing about the #spacelarpcafe

Oh God, it's been 9 years since I started writing about the #spacelarpcafe

I personally would prefer a space larp (or even a #spacelarpcafe), where we do an away mission out here in the local woods.

but I'd settle for a high fantasy thing too.

I personally would prefer a space larp (or even a #spacelarpcafe), where we do an away mission out here in the local woods.

but I'd settle for a high fantasy thing too.

I personally would prefer a space larp (or even a #spacelarpcafe), where we do an away mission out here in the local woods.

but I'd settle for a high fantasy thing too.

I personally would prefer a space larp (or even a #spacelarpcafe), where we do an away mission out here in the local woods.

but I'd settle for a high fantasy thing too.

I decided a 7 or 8 years ago that I wanted to be able to do all of the kinds of production that the walt disney company does, and that I wanted to be able to do those things without becoming a monster.

As of right now, about the only thing we don't do (other than being a monster) is theme park attractions.

(Give me another two years and we'll get #SpaceLARPCafe kicked back off.)

I decided a 7 or 8 years ago that I wanted to be able to do all of the kinds of production that the walt disney company does, and that I wanted to be able to do those things without becoming a monster.

As of right now, about the only thing we don't do (other than being a monster) is theme park attractions.

(Give me another two years and we'll get #SpaceLARPCafe kicked back off.)

I decided a 7 or 8 years ago that I wanted to be able to do all of the kinds of production that the walt disney company does, and that I wanted to be able to do those things without becoming a monster.

As of right now, about the only thing we don't do (other than being a monster) is theme park attractions.

(Give me another two years and we'll get #SpaceLARPCafe kicked back off.)

I decided a 7 or 8 years ago that I wanted to be able to do all of the kinds of production that the walt disney company does, and that I wanted to be able to do those things without becoming a monster.

As of right now, about the only thing we don't do (other than being a monster) is theme park attractions.

(Give me another two years and we'll get #SpaceLARPCafe kicked back off.)

There's no reason for it to specifically be cryptid themed. @bstacey suggested dinosaurs, which would work very well.

I also love the idea of a world where a bunch of little steampunk-y robots are just out there, and your goal is to spot them all. I've been thinking about that idea since I stumbled on this kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1537376953/wrylon-robotical-field-guides/description a decade ago.

It could be a scavenger hunt. It could be in the #SpaceLARPCafe universe.

There should be enough to do to keep the locals engaged, but it should be friendly enough that it's fun to just play for the weekend, if you're just in town for the weekend.

There's no reason for it to specifically be cryptid themed. @bstacey suggested dinosaurs, which would work very well.

I also love the idea of a world where a bunch of little steampunk-y robots are just out there, and your goal is to spot them all. I've been thinking about that idea since I stumbled on this kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1537376953/wrylon-robotical-field-guides/description a decade ago.

It could be a scavenger hunt. It could be in the #SpaceLARPCafe universe.

There should be enough to do to keep the locals engaged, but it should be friendly enough that it's fun to just play for the weekend, if you're just in town for the weekend.

There's no reason for it to specifically be cryptid themed. @bstacey suggested dinosaurs, which would work very well.

I also love the idea of a world where a bunch of little steampunk-y robots are just out there, and your goal is to spot them all. I've been thinking about that idea since I stumbled on this kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1537376953/wrylon-robotical-field-guides/description a decade ago.

It could be a scavenger hunt. It could be in the #SpaceLARPCafe universe.

There should be enough to do to keep the locals engaged, but it should be friendly enough that it's fun to just play for the weekend, if you're just in town for the weekend.

There's no reason for it to specifically be cryptid themed. @bstacey suggested dinosaurs, which would work very well.

I also love the idea of a world where a bunch of little steampunk-y robots are just out there, and your goal is to spot them all. I've been thinking about that idea since I stumbled on this kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1537376953/wrylon-robotical-field-guides/description a decade ago.

It could be a scavenger hunt. It could be in the #SpaceLARPCafe universe.

There should be enough to do to keep the locals engaged, but it should be friendly enough that it's fun to just play for the weekend, if you're just in town for the weekend.

#SpaceLARPCafe

This isn't something I'm actively working on, so much as it is something that I'm convinced I will do at some point, and that I have a bunch of pieces for folded in to other things.

I won't rehash the whole thing. Find the original post from 2017 if you're interested.

#SpaceLARPCafe

This isn't something I'm actively working on, so much as it is something that I'm convinced I will do at some point, and that I have a bunch of pieces for folded in to other things.

I won't rehash the whole thing. Find the original post from 2017 if you're interested.

#SpaceLARPCafe

This isn't something I'm actively working on, so much as it is something that I'm convinced I will do at some point, and that I have a bunch of pieces for folded in to other things.

I won't rehash the whole thing. Find the original post from 2017 if you're interested.

#SpaceLARPCafe

This isn't something I'm actively working on, so much as it is something that I'm convinced I will do at some point, and that I have a bunch of pieces for folded in to other things.

I won't rehash the whole thing. Find the original post from 2017 if you're interested.

I'm looking back in to it today because I'm looking for things that I can use as visual inspiration as we build out v1 of the #SpaceLARPCafe

Stylistically there's a lot going on here, but practically it is pretty vapid.

I'm looking back in to it today because I'm looking for things that I can use as visual inspiration as we build out v1 of the #SpaceLARPCafe

Stylistically there's a lot going on here, but practically it is pretty vapid.

I'm looking back in to it today because I'm looking for things that I can use as visual inspiration as we build out v1 of the #SpaceLARPCafe

Stylistically there's a lot going on here, but practically it is pretty vapid.

I'm looking back in to it today because I'm looking for things that I can use as visual inspiration as we build out v1 of the #SpaceLARPCafe

Stylistically there's a lot going on here, but practically it is pretty vapid.

I think we're going to run #spacelarpcafe as a weekend installation for Community Day at the makerspace in the spring.

I have ten million things to do before then, and some of them are building a Spaceship.

I think we're going to run #spacelarpcafe as a weekend installation for Community Day at the makerspace in the spring.

I have ten million things to do before then, and some of them are building a Spaceship.

I think we're going to run #spacelarpcafe as a weekend installation for Community Day at the makerspace in the spring.

I have ten million things to do before then, and some of them are building a Spaceship.

I think we're going to run #spacelarpcafe as a weekend installation for Community Day at the makerspace in the spring.

I have ten million things to do before then, and some of them are building a Spaceship.

@kat @ifixcoinops @BillySmith if you dig through the #spaceLARPCafe tag, I'm sure you'll see me talking about converting a school bus or a pullbehind trailer.

I even found a 1950s carnival spaceship trailer that I drooled over for a few weeks before my wife talked me out of it. (It would have needed 10k or more in work and parts.)

I ... do have a spaceship room already. I could just use that.

@kat @ifixcoinops @BillySmith if you dig through the #spaceLARPCafe tag, I'm sure you'll see me talking about converting a school bus or a pullbehind trailer.

I even found a 1950s carnival spaceship trailer that I drooled over for a few weeks before my wife talked me out of it. (It would have needed 10k or more in work and parts.)

I ... do have a spaceship room already. I could just use that.

@kat @ifixcoinops @BillySmith if you dig through the #spaceLARPCafe tag, I'm sure you'll see me talking about converting a school bus or a pullbehind trailer.

I even found a 1950s carnival spaceship trailer that I drooled over for a few weeks before my wife talked me out of it. (It would have needed 10k or more in work and parts.)

I ... do have a spaceship room already. I could just use that.

@kat @ifixcoinops @BillySmith if you dig through the #spaceLARPCafe tag, I'm sure you'll see me talking about converting a school bus or a pullbehind trailer.

I even found a 1950s carnival spaceship trailer that I drooled over for a few weeks before my wife talked me out of it. (It would have needed 10k or more in work and parts.)

I ... do have a spaceship room already. I could just use that.

Basically, I see it like this:

- You have a ship. Your ship has a record. That record is your ship's local copy of the "wiki". The wiki is the state of the universe as far as your ship is aware, and it *can be, but does not have to be* federated.

- Your ship is only online when your ship is online. The world changes without your ship, and your ship will not necessarily know about it unless it is associated with a dock. The dock will backfill data to your ship.

- Your ship can associate itself with a dock. The dock is kind of like a relay. It serves as a hub connecting lots of ships, and probably also federating with other docks. (This is the #SpaceLARPCafe but can also be wholly virtual.) It also becomes the server for the game world your ships connect to.

- The actual bridge simulation bits are built from structured data and text from the "wiki", and the results of various excursions get bundled back up and sent back to the wiki (which does not promise consistency, but will follow a trust model of some sort that I can invision, but don't want to take the time to explain.)

- The only multiplayer aspects come from the other members of your bridge crew and from the other ships connected to your dock. (eventually, maybe, if there's enough interest, dock to dock interaction might approach something closer to real time, but at some point this shit gets complicated and potentially expensive so I'm trying to short circuit as much of that as possible)

- Outside of the bridge simulator bits, everything is done through menus and text at the base layer. We might put a fancy skin on eventually, but under the hood it's all structured text. (The whole game world, in fact, and nearly every interaction within it, should be able to be modeled as flavor text + structured data. This is because all the data discovered about the game world is presented in a wiki! Players are invited to contribute to the wiki (video, audio, and text)

- There's not one massive, persistent game world. There are a bunch of small ones. There's not even one consensus view of reality, there are a bunch of fragmented ones. This might be a problem for a different style of game, but it adds some DIY hacker aesthetic to this one.

Doing it this way lets me bolt on to an existing game engine with some relatively light scripting, and to pass data in and out of the game engine in a way that makes it all feel like One Thing instead of a collection of a bunch of different things.

It means that we can have some basic proc-gen for "you've entered an unexplored region of space and when you get there you find X, Y, and Z" and then store that data for future explorers, while also logging the first people to visit the region, etc. etc. etc.

I have more thoughts here, but it's dinner time

Basically, I see it like this:

- You have a ship. Your ship has a record. That record is your ship's local copy of the "wiki". The wiki is the state of the universe as far as your ship is aware, and it *can be, but does not have to be* federated.

- Your ship is only online when your ship is online. The world changes without your ship, and your ship will not necessarily know about it unless it is associated with a dock. The dock will backfill data to your ship.

- Your ship can associate itself with a dock. The dock is kind of like a relay. It serves as a hub connecting lots of ships, and probably also federating with other docks. (This is the #SpaceLARPCafe but can also be wholly virtual.) It also becomes the server for the game world your ships connect to.

- The actual bridge simulation bits are built from structured data and text from the "wiki", and the results of various excursions get bundled back up and sent back to the wiki (which does not promise consistency, but will follow a trust model of some sort that I can invision, but don't want to take the time to explain.)

- The only multiplayer aspects come from the other members of your bridge crew and from the other ships connected to your dock. (eventually, maybe, if there's enough interest, dock to dock interaction might approach something closer to real time, but at some point this shit gets complicated and potentially expensive so I'm trying to short circuit as much of that as possible)

- Outside of the bridge simulator bits, everything is done through menus and text at the base layer. We might put a fancy skin on eventually, but under the hood it's all structured text. (The whole game world, in fact, and nearly every interaction within it, should be able to be modeled as flavor text + structured data. This is because all the data discovered about the game world is presented in a wiki! Players are invited to contribute to the wiki (video, audio, and text)

- There's not one massive, persistent game world. There are a bunch of small ones. There's not even one consensus view of reality, there are a bunch of fragmented ones. This might be a problem for a different style of game, but it adds some DIY hacker aesthetic to this one.

Doing it this way lets me bolt on to an existing game engine with some relatively light scripting, and to pass data in and out of the game engine in a way that makes it all feel like One Thing instead of a collection of a bunch of different things.

It means that we can have some basic proc-gen for "you've entered an unexplored region of space and when you get there you find X, Y, and Z" and then store that data for future explorers, while also logging the first people to visit the region, etc. etc. etc.

I have more thoughts here, but it's dinner time

Basically, I see it like this:

- You have a ship. Your ship has a record. That record is your ship's local copy of the "wiki". The wiki is the state of the universe as far as your ship is aware, and it *can be, but does not have to be* federated.

- Your ship is only online when your ship is online. The world changes without your ship, and your ship will not necessarily know about it unless it is associated with a dock. The dock will backfill data to your ship.

- Your ship can associate itself with a dock. The dock is kind of like a relay. It serves as a hub connecting lots of ships, and probably also federating with other docks. (This is the #SpaceLARPCafe but can also be wholly virtual.) It also becomes the server for the game world your ships connect to.

- The actual bridge simulation bits are built from structured data and text from the "wiki", and the results of various excursions get bundled back up and sent back to the wiki (which does not promise consistency, but will follow a trust model of some sort that I can invision, but don't want to take the time to explain.)

- The only multiplayer aspects come from the other members of your bridge crew and from the other ships connected to your dock. (eventually, maybe, if there's enough interest, dock to dock interaction might approach something closer to real time, but at some point this shit gets complicated and potentially expensive so I'm trying to short circuit as much of that as possible)

- Outside of the bridge simulator bits, everything is done through menus and text at the base layer. We might put a fancy skin on eventually, but under the hood it's all structured text. (The whole game world, in fact, and nearly every interaction within it, should be able to be modeled as flavor text + structured data. This is because all the data discovered about the game world is presented in a wiki! Players are invited to contribute to the wiki (video, audio, and text)

- There's not one massive, persistent game world. There are a bunch of small ones. There's not even one consensus view of reality, there are a bunch of fragmented ones. This might be a problem for a different style of game, but it adds some DIY hacker aesthetic to this one.

Doing it this way lets me bolt on to an existing game engine with some relatively light scripting, and to pass data in and out of the game engine in a way that makes it all feel like One Thing instead of a collection of a bunch of different things.

It means that we can have some basic proc-gen for "you've entered an unexplored region of space and when you get there you find X, Y, and Z" and then store that data for future explorers, while also logging the first people to visit the region, etc. etc. etc.

I have more thoughts here, but it's dinner time

Basically, I see it like this:

- You have a ship. Your ship has a record. That record is your ship's local copy of the "wiki". The wiki is the state of the universe as far as your ship is aware, and it *can be, but does not have to be* federated.

- Your ship is only online when your ship is online. The world changes without your ship, and your ship will not necessarily know about it unless it is associated with a dock. The dock will backfill data to your ship.

- Your ship can associate itself with a dock. The dock is kind of like a relay. It serves as a hub connecting lots of ships, and probably also federating with other docks. (This is the #SpaceLARPCafe but can also be wholly virtual.) It also becomes the server for the game world your ships connect to.

- The actual bridge simulation bits are built from structured data and text from the "wiki", and the results of various excursions get bundled back up and sent back to the wiki (which does not promise consistency, but will follow a trust model of some sort that I can invision, but don't want to take the time to explain.)

- The only multiplayer aspects come from the other members of your bridge crew and from the other ships connected to your dock. (eventually, maybe, if there's enough interest, dock to dock interaction might approach something closer to real time, but at some point this shit gets complicated and potentially expensive so I'm trying to short circuit as much of that as possible)

- Outside of the bridge simulator bits, everything is done through menus and text at the base layer. We might put a fancy skin on eventually, but under the hood it's all structured text. (The whole game world, in fact, and nearly every interaction within it, should be able to be modeled as flavor text + structured data. This is because all the data discovered about the game world is presented in a wiki! Players are invited to contribute to the wiki (video, audio, and text)

- There's not one massive, persistent game world. There are a bunch of small ones. There's not even one consensus view of reality, there are a bunch of fragmented ones. This might be a problem for a different style of game, but it adds some DIY hacker aesthetic to this one.

Doing it this way lets me bolt on to an existing game engine with some relatively light scripting, and to pass data in and out of the game engine in a way that makes it all feel like One Thing instead of a collection of a bunch of different things.

It means that we can have some basic proc-gen for "you've entered an unexplored region of space and when you get there you find X, Y, and Z" and then store that data for future explorers, while also logging the first people to visit the region, etc. etc. etc.

I have more thoughts here, but it's dinner time

Everyone is flying busted ass homemade ships, relying on a public wiki to know which worlds are safe. The whole universe is basically uncharted.

That gives us a *lot* of room to hang a story off of.

The #SpaceLARPCafe can be "renting" ships to visitors and serving as a "dock" for members.

Visitors can pick from a pre-supplied list of fly by planets and basically just do a training mission and a simple excursion.

Members can chart uncharted systems or do supply runs to charted systems or do rescue missions or salvage missions for other ships.

That gives us room to tell lots of different kinds of stories, but also to have a good reason for many of the stories to remain disconnected or not to build on one another (while also leaving *plenty* of room for us to have ongoing stories that do build on one another.

Everyone is flying busted ass homemade ships, relying on a public wiki to know which worlds are safe. The whole universe is basically uncharted.

That gives us a *lot* of room to hang a story off of.

The #SpaceLARPCafe can be "renting" ships to visitors and serving as a "dock" for members.

Visitors can pick from a pre-supplied list of fly by planets and basically just do a training mission and a simple excursion.

Members can chart uncharted systems or do supply runs to charted systems or do rescue missions or salvage missions for other ships.

That gives us room to tell lots of different kinds of stories, but also to have a good reason for many of the stories to remain disconnected or not to build on one another (while also leaving *plenty* of room for us to have ongoing stories that do build on one another.

Everyone is flying busted ass homemade ships, relying on a public wiki to know which worlds are safe. The whole universe is basically uncharted.

That gives us a *lot* of room to hang a story off of.

The #SpaceLARPCafe can be "renting" ships to visitors and serving as a "dock" for members.

Visitors can pick from a pre-supplied list of fly by planets and basically just do a training mission and a simple excursion.

Members can chart uncharted systems or do supply runs to charted systems or do rescue missions or salvage missions for other ships.

That gives us room to tell lots of different kinds of stories, but also to have a good reason for many of the stories to remain disconnected or not to build on one another (while also leaving *plenty* of room for us to have ongoing stories that do build on one another.

Everyone is flying busted ass homemade ships, relying on a public wiki to know which worlds are safe. The whole universe is basically uncharted.

That gives us a *lot* of room to hang a story off of.

The #SpaceLARPCafe can be "renting" ships to visitors and serving as a "dock" for members.

Visitors can pick from a pre-supplied list of fly by planets and basically just do a training mission and a simple excursion.

Members can chart uncharted systems or do supply runs to charted systems or do rescue missions or salvage missions for other ships.

That gives us room to tell lots of different kinds of stories, but also to have a good reason for many of the stories to remain disconnected or not to build on one another (while also leaving *plenty* of room for us to have ongoing stories that do build on one another.

The original premise for #SpaceLARPCafe put it, more or less, in the Jupiter's Ghost universe (#jg #JupitersGhost).

That is to say THE DISTANT FUTURE. A world inhabited by lots of aliens, with various factions vying for control on the edges of a crumbling intergalactic utopia.

That could be a lot of fun. I think there are a lot of stories to tell in a universe like that!

But it also means slotting this thing in to the periphery of a fairly established universe, which is very different from our own. That takes a lot of work to pull off visually. It would require super complicated sets for the physical elements of things, but it also requires pretty elaborate storytelling and onboarding for new players, and it makes the *game* part harder too.

It didn't really occur to me until yesterday that I already had another option.

The original premise for #SpaceLARPCafe put it, more or less, in the Jupiter's Ghost universe (#jg #JupitersGhost).

That is to say THE DISTANT FUTURE. A world inhabited by lots of aliens, with various factions vying for control on the edges of a crumbling intergalactic utopia.

That could be a lot of fun. I think there are a lot of stories to tell in a universe like that!

But it also means slotting this thing in to the periphery of a fairly established universe, which is very different from our own. That takes a lot of work to pull off visually. It would require super complicated sets for the physical elements of things, but it also requires pretty elaborate storytelling and onboarding for new players, and it makes the *game* part harder too.

It didn't really occur to me until yesterday that I already had another option.

The original premise for #SpaceLARPCafe put it, more or less, in the Jupiter's Ghost universe (#jg #JupitersGhost).

That is to say THE DISTANT FUTURE. A world inhabited by lots of aliens, with various factions vying for control on the edges of a crumbling intergalactic utopia.

That could be a lot of fun. I think there are a lot of stories to tell in a universe like that!

But it also means slotting this thing in to the periphery of a fairly established universe, which is very different from our own. That takes a lot of work to pull off visually. It would require super complicated sets for the physical elements of things, but it also requires pretty elaborate storytelling and onboarding for new players, and it makes the *game* part harder too.

It didn't really occur to me until yesterday that I already had another option.

The original premise for #SpaceLARPCafe put it, more or less, in the Jupiter's Ghost universe (#jg #JupitersGhost).

That is to say THE DISTANT FUTURE. A world inhabited by lots of aliens, with various factions vying for control on the edges of a crumbling intergalactic utopia.

That could be a lot of fun. I think there are a lot of stories to tell in a universe like that!

But it also means slotting this thing in to the periphery of a fairly established universe, which is very different from our own. That takes a lot of work to pull off visually. It would require super complicated sets for the physical elements of things, but it also requires pretty elaborate storytelling and onboarding for new players, and it makes the *game* part harder too.

It didn't really occur to me until yesterday that I already had another option.

For those who are new to these topics, #SpaceLARPCafe is an idea I had a long time ago to bolt a starship bridge simulator like Space Nerds in Space or Empty Epsilon on to the basic idea of an escape room or a haunted house, and then to stick all of that in the back room of a cafe, complete with flight simulators.

It's an interactive, multiplayer space exploration game + a real world space to tie the game world together + star tours.

I've written about the idea a lot, but the post you want if you're encountering it for the first time starts here:
https://retro.social/@ajroach42/99141421780857515

The Space Explorer's Field Guide (wiki) is a TV show we're slowly working on for New Ellijay Television #NETV and probably my favorite of the several series we have in various stages of production and preproduction. The basic premise goes:

The year is 2030. 5 years ago, someone uploaded plans for a DIY interstellar engine to hacker news, and ... It worked. It could be assembled for peanuts.

The american empire has collapsed. The world is in chaos. Interstellar flight is possible, easy, cheap, not remotely safe.

It's a vast, nearly infinite cosmos. All of it is basically uncharted.

A weird combination of hardcore nerds and long haul hikers are out there documenting it and contributing back to the wiki.

Imagine every weird little instance of the fediverse as a guild of space explorers and you'll be most of the way to what I'm envisioning here.

For those who are new to these topics, #SpaceLARPCafe is an idea I had a long time ago to bolt a starship bridge simulator like Space Nerds in Space or Empty Epsilon on to the basic idea of an escape room or a haunted house, and then to stick all of that in the back room of a cafe, complete with flight simulators.

It's an interactive, multiplayer space exploration game + a real world space to tie the game world together + star tours.

I've written about the idea a lot, but the post you want if you're encountering it for the first time starts here:
https://retro.social/@ajroach42/99141421780857515

The Space Explorer's Field Guide (wiki) is a TV show we're slowly working on for New Ellijay Television #NETV and probably my favorite of the several series we have in various stages of production and preproduction. The basic premise goes:

The year is 2030. 5 years ago, someone uploaded plans for a DIY interstellar engine to hacker news, and ... It worked. It could be assembled for peanuts.

The american empire has collapsed. The world is in chaos. Interstellar flight is possible, easy, cheap, not remotely safe.

It's a vast, nearly infinite cosmos. All of it is basically uncharted.

A weird combination of hardcore nerds and long haul hikers are out there documenting it and contributing back to the wiki.

Imagine every weird little instance of the fediverse as a guild of space explorers and you'll be most of the way to what I'm envisioning here.

For those who are new to these topics, #SpaceLARPCafe is an idea I had a long time ago to bolt a starship bridge simulator like Space Nerds in Space or Empty Epsilon on to the basic idea of an escape room or a haunted house, and then to stick all of that in the back room of a cafe, complete with flight simulators.

It's an interactive, multiplayer space exploration game + a real world space to tie the game world together + star tours.

I've written about the idea a lot, but the post you want if you're encountering it for the first time starts here:
https://retro.social/@ajroach42/99141421780857515

The Space Explorer's Field Guide (wiki) is a TV show we're slowly working on for New Ellijay Television #NETV and probably my favorite of the several series we have in various stages of production and preproduction. The basic premise goes:

The year is 2030. 5 years ago, someone uploaded plans for a DIY interstellar engine to hacker news, and ... It worked. It could be assembled for peanuts.

The american empire has collapsed. The world is in chaos. Interstellar flight is possible, easy, cheap, not remotely safe.

It's a vast, nearly infinite cosmos. All of it is basically uncharted.

A weird combination of hardcore nerds and long haul hikers are out there documenting it and contributing back to the wiki.

Imagine every weird little instance of the fediverse as a guild of space explorers and you'll be most of the way to what I'm envisioning here.

For those who are new to these topics, #SpaceLARPCafe is an idea I had a long time ago to bolt a starship bridge simulator like Space Nerds in Space or Empty Epsilon on to the basic idea of an escape room or a haunted house, and then to stick all of that in the back room of a cafe, complete with flight simulators.

It's an interactive, multiplayer space exploration game + a real world space to tie the game world together + star tours.

I've written about the idea a lot, but the post you want if you're encountering it for the first time starts here:
https://retro.social/@ajroach42/99141421780857515

The Space Explorer's Field Guide (wiki) is a TV show we're slowly working on for New Ellijay Television #NETV and probably my favorite of the several series we have in various stages of production and preproduction. The basic premise goes:

The year is 2030. 5 years ago, someone uploaded plans for a DIY interstellar engine to hacker news, and ... It worked. It could be assembled for peanuts.

The american empire has collapsed. The world is in chaos. Interstellar flight is possible, easy, cheap, not remotely safe.

It's a vast, nearly infinite cosmos. All of it is basically uncharted.

A weird combination of hardcore nerds and long haul hikers are out there documenting it and contributing back to the wiki.

Imagine every weird little instance of the fediverse as a guild of space explorers and you'll be most of the way to what I'm envisioning here.

I'm thinking more and more about #SpaceLARPCafe within the context of the universe of the Space Explorer's Field Guide (wiki) ( #sefgw ) and how those two ideas could co-exist.

I'm thinking more and more about #SpaceLARPCafe within the context of the universe of the Space Explorer's Field Guide (wiki) ( #sefgw ) and how those two ideas could co-exist.

I'm thinking more and more about #SpaceLARPCafe within the context of the universe of the Space Explorer's Field Guide (wiki) ( #sefgw ) and how those two ideas could co-exist.

I'm thinking more and more about #SpaceLARPCafe within the context of the universe of the Space Explorer's Field Guide (wiki) ( #sefgw ) and how those two ideas could co-exist.

I went to a very well designed and thoughtfully curated private museum today and it has my mind all aflutter with possibilities.

Interactive storytelling and emmersive theater ( and, yes, #spaceLARPCafe, even) are only a shade removed from the best museum exhibits.

I went to a very well designed and thoughtfully curated private museum today and it has my mind all aflutter with possibilities.

Interactive storytelling and emmersive theater ( and, yes, #spaceLARPCafe, even) are only a shade removed from the best museum exhibits.

I went to a very well designed and thoughtfully curated private museum today and it has my mind all aflutter with possibilities.

Interactive storytelling and emmersive theater ( and, yes, #spaceLARPCafe, even) are only a shade removed from the best museum exhibits.

I went to a very well designed and thoughtfully curated private museum today and it has my mind all aflutter with possibilities.

Interactive storytelling and emmersive theater ( and, yes, #spaceLARPCafe, even) are only a shade removed from the best museum exhibits.

It has been brought to my attention that I haven't talked about Jupiter's Ghost recently enough for even people who know me well to know what the hell I am talking about so

It's time to talk about my pet project.

Not #newellijaytelevision

Not #expeditionsasquatch

Not the #zinestation or the #zinestation486

and not the #spacelarpcafe (although very nearly the space larp cafe)

Today, right now, and for the foreseeable future, I'm talking about #jupitersghost or #jg, what it is, what I want it to be, and how you can get involved.

It has been brought to my attention that I haven't talked about Jupiter's Ghost recently enough for even people who know me well to know what the hell I am talking about so

It's time to talk about my pet project.

Not #newellijaytelevision

Not #expeditionsasquatch

Not the #zinestation or the #zinestation486

and not the #spacelarpcafe (although very nearly the space larp cafe)

Today, right now, and for the foreseeable future, I'm talking about #jupitersghost or #jg, what it is, what I want it to be, and how you can get involved.

It has been brought to my attention that I haven't talked about Jupiter's Ghost recently enough for even people who know me well to know what the hell I am talking about so

It's time to talk about my pet project.

Not #newellijaytelevision

Not #expeditionsasquatch

Not the #zinestation or the #zinestation486

and not the #spacelarpcafe (although very nearly the space larp cafe)

Today, right now, and for the foreseeable future, I'm talking about #jupitersghost or #jg, what it is, what I want it to be, and how you can get involved.

It has been brought to my attention that I haven't talked about Jupiter's Ghost recently enough for even people who know me well to know what the hell I am talking about so

It's time to talk about my pet project.

Not #newellijaytelevision

Not #expeditionsasquatch

Not the #zinestation or the #zinestation486

and not the #spacelarpcafe (although very nearly the space larp cafe)

Today, right now, and for the foreseeable future, I'm talking about #jupitersghost or #jg, what it is, what I want it to be, and how you can get involved.