Developer and writer QUByte Interactive has launched a promotional marketing campaign calling all volunteers for a ‘Mission to Mars’ forward of the launch of their upcoming recreation MARS 2120, a contemporary metroidvania recreation set on the planet Mars, launching on Steam and consoles. All through the sport, protagonist Anna “13” Charlotte should discover the human services on the planet to search out out what brought on a misery sign from the Martian colony. She wants your assist! – Enlist right here for the Mission to Mars!
This ‘Mission to Mars’ marketing campaign combines fantasy with actual science and house exploration, simulating the seek for a volunteer crew to board the fictional UNSS-1826 Baumfree spacecraft, the ship in MARS 2120 that takes Sergeant Charlotte to discover the crimson planet on an journey stuffed with hazard and discovery.
All gamers who join the mission through the web site shall be entered to win digital copies of MARS 2120, in addition to objects linked to the mission equivalent to official UNSS-1826 Baumfree crew T-shirts and a ship’s captain’s jacket!
Prize attracts will embrace 24 gamers who may have their names listed within the credit of the MARS 2120 recreation because the official UNSS Baumfree crew who valiantly undertook the rescue of the colony on Mars. This crew will even be introduced on the developer’s social networks together with a particular sequence of posts celebrating humanity’s progress in exploring house, the significance of scientific data and, above all, the essential function of feminine scientists and explorers all through the historical past of house exploration.
The UNSS-1826 Baumfree’s identify pays homage to the various achievements and the braveness and bravado of actual girls who’ve made historical past. The quantity and identify of the spacecraft are a reference to Sojourner Fact, born Isabella Baumfree, a girl, abolitionist and civil rights activist for African Individuals. The quantity 1826 refers back to the 12 months through which Baumfree escaped from slavery and started her journey. Not coincidentally, Sojourner is the identify of the primary rover to land on Mars in 1997.
