Space Station Designer is a construction and management game that puts you in charge of creating and expanding a network of orbital outposts in Earth and Lunar orbits.

## About This Game

Space Station Designer is a construction and management game where you are in
charge of building and expanding a network of orbital outposts in Earth and
Lunar Orbit.

Perform a wide range of activities such as recruiting and managing astronauts,
building and installing modules, providing commercial services, manufacturing
commercial goods, acquiring and commercializing industrial R&D technologies,
leasing modules, and a lot more in order to make your network the best it can
be!

Or, if you prefer a more chilled experience, fire up the sandbox mode and come
up with your own creative designs. Your imagination is the limit!

Space Station Designer is the second large game from the creators of Buzz
Aldrin’s Space Program Manager and it’s under heavy development. There’s no
planned release date, as this is a labor of love and we are working on it
during our spare time. If you want to support our efforts and stay up to date
with its development, please add it to your Steam wishlist and follow us on
Twitter. We’ll be providing updates on a regular basis.

The year is 1984. As an extremely accomplished and well-respected billionaire
that made their fortune in the logistics and technology sectors, you’re well
aware of the potential benefits that a permanent presence in space can
provide. After meeting with many world leaders for several months and pitching
your ambitious ideas, government officials from China, the Soviet Union, the
United States of America, and the European Union all want to partner up with
you in order to setup a government-industry venture in order to establish a
network of orbital outposts in Earth and Lunar orbits.

Unfortunately, these four superpowers are not interested in working together!
Will you partner with the US and receive a commercial goods transactions bonus
and an extra influx of initial funds? Or maybe go with the European Union and
receive a permanent bonus on propulsion and research points generation? The
Soviet Union prepares their astronauts for maintenance duties a lot better
than the rest of the regions, maybe that’s the best option? Or probably
partnering up with China looks more appealing, as they provide a significant
manufacturing boost?

After selecting your partner, choose between three initial configurations of
the Core Module, launch it into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), and begin your journey!
A typical week as a Director of this government-industry venture will find you
ordering modules, arranging resupply spacecraft, training astronauts,
acquiring technologies from a vast tech tree, and providing commercial
services to private companies and contractors.

Once you’ve established a solid presence in LEO, expand your network by
opening further outposts in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), High Earth Orbit (HEO)
and the Moon. Your career as a Director will span 50 years. Develop a strategy
and see how far you push this venture during this period of time!

As of December 2020, Space Station Designer features both a Sandbox and a
Campaign mode. The Sandbox mode gives you a blank canvas with a massive
palette of modules that you can assemble as you see fit, whereas the Campaign
mode provides the following options:

* Choose between four unique regions to establish your company. Each one of them provides different bonuses and perks.
* Setup your LEO station by choosing from three different Core Modules.
* Purchase modules across a wide range of categories (electricity, cooling, structural, research, manufacturing, etc) and install them.
* Manage the members of your astronauts corps, whose individual morale ratings are affected by the assignments they get and other external events.
* Discover and unlock technologies from a complex tech tree comprised by over 55 technologies.
* Request and prepare resupply missions in order to bring consumables, raw materials and astronauts to the station.
* Provide commercial services and lease your modules to private companies in order to bring much needed funds.
* Assign astronauts to maintenance duties in order to keep the station fully functional. Sometimes modules will break, though! So make sure you have enough crew members available to jump in for unexpected repairs.
* Setup complex production lines in order to produce commercial goods, which can be sold back on Earth in a constantly evolving market.
* Develop Industrial R&D technologies, which can be leased or sold to private entities.
* Expand your network to higher orbits such as Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) and High Earth Orbit (HEO). You can even establish an orbital outpost in Lunar orbit!

Planned features for the campaign mode include:

* The ability to build Earth facilities, which provides extra bonuses and the option of running Continuous Improvement Programs (CIPs).
* The option to buy space station modules from different types of contractors featuring unique strong points.
* An optional mini-game where you will manually pilot resupply spacecraft and guide them to the target docking port.
* A deeper lifetime management mode for space station modules.
* Random events that affect different aspects of your company.
* A launch minigame when launching resupply spacecraft.

We’re also implementing modding support for both the Sandbox and the Campaign
modes, which will allow you to add new modules and astronauts or replace
existing ones. And of course we’re designing a massive list of Steam
Achievements and coming up with loads ideas for Steam Trading Cards!

There’s no planned release date for Space Station Designer yet. After
implementing the planned features from the previous session, we’ll conduct
some heavy playtesting and take the next steps based on that. If you have any
feedback, we encourage you to open a thread in the forums. We cannot promise
we’ll be able to answer every single message, but rest assured we read all of
them! If you’d like to get involved during playtesting, please let us know.

See you in the forums!

Space Station Designer