What Is Blackspace?

Blackspace, is a unique form of real-time strategy, combining elements of action with an emphasis on economic and defensive efficiency. Players will find themselves on the outskirts of explored space, harvesting minerals, and supplying markets, while using the resources around them to sustain their operations as well as the lives of the colonist workers.

The game takes place on X class asteroids, players will control both surface and orbital operations with the use of a specialized low gravity operation support vehicle. The vehicle controls take skill to maneuver safely, but once mastered, it becomes an extension of the players hand, commanding base operations, pilot drilling dig sites, prospecting large and unusual mineral deposits, and if need be, supporting the bases defense.

The play space encircles the celestial body and extends into orbit. This gives the player a layered and expansive strategic platform. The unique layout serves to broaden the players ability to develop varied and personalized solutions to the environmental and defensive challenges that await them.

 

This is news, not about our game, but about the asteroid mining business, which up until last week was complete science fiction. Planetary Resources is actually doing the real thing, the real Blackspace. Except Planetary Resources won't have as much fighting up there, well at least not yet...

Plan. Dig. Defend. Survive.

The space age emerges and fleets of ships await their birth. Massive mining rigs scatter into the darkness of space in hopes of finding mineral deposits to prospect for extraction. Blackspace takes you to the edge of known space where nature's true hostility lay bare. It's here, in the frontiers of the galaxy, that those dubbed the Blackspace colonists expect to prove that life can not only exist but flourish. It is yet to be demonstrated whether these deep space ventures can yield returns to justify the expense and the risk. You and your crew are among those who believe they can.

Lead your crew across asteroids, planetoids and moons, mining mineral deposits, establishing bases, and defending territory. Master the art of sub-orbital flight. Establish and maintain mining installations. Hone the efficiency of your base to ensure high profits and maintain the strength and resilience to succeed in the face of all opposition.