Developer Auroch Digital and publisher Secret Mode offered up an exciting announcement. An official partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Auroch Digital in order to work on the development of Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life.
This partnership isn’t the first time that the ESA has been involved in video game collaboration. The partnership on Mars Horizon 2: The Search For Life follows on from the pair’s successful collaboration on the first Mars Horizon, where ESA staff provided valuable insight into the planning and operation of missions to Mars, and ESA itself was a playable agency within the game.
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“It is hard to fully encapsulate the value that working with the European Space Agency brings to us as game developers; there is the expert knowledge, there is the breadth of experience, but also just the general all-round excitement of space exploration that radiates from ESA staff we interact with,” said Dr Tomas Rawlings, Studio Director at Auroch Digital. “We’re doing our best to capture all this to offer players an authentic representation of our species’ ongoing journey to understand our solar system and beyond.”
Players can once again take the reins of ESA within Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life, and ESA’s expertise will be used to ensure that all projections into the future involving mankind’s search for extra-terrestrial life are based on likely scientific scenarios and achievable technological progress. From a player standpoint, this is an incredible venture that builds on the immersion of the experience. This unique centering of a real scientific agency in development is something to celebrate.
“Science and exploration are at the heart of everything that ESA does,” said Emmett Fletcher, Head of Branding and Partnerships. “To be able to work again with Auroch Digital on its newest development is a fabulous way to share the ambition, wonder, and excitement of ESA’s missions; past, present, and future.”
Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life is scheduled to launch in 2024.
