Inspiration

A selection of games and things I particularly like about them…

A Mind Forever Voyaging
Being an AI/Information Gathering through sensors and robots

BioForge
Escape/Disintegrating Facility/Chaos

Command & Conquer
Base Building/Research

Dead Space
Derelict Ship/Restoring Systems/Exploration/Discovery

Dominus
Strategy (Traps, Potions, Creature creation/Placement)/Defence

Dwarf Fortress
Micromanagement/Construction/World Generation/Flooding/Mechanisms/Crafting/Adventure Mode

Earthrise
Exploration of abandoned Facility

Fallout
S.P.E.C.I.A.L RPG system/Vaults/Social Experiments/VATS

Free Enterpri$e
Customisation/Construction/Building/Manufacture

Innocent Until Proven Guilty 2
Simple Interface/Travelling

Ironseed
Ship Systems/Resource Collection/Assembling/Dis-assembling/Construction

Miner Dig Deep
Mining/Various Resources

Noctis
Procedural Generation of Galaxies-Systems-Planets-Terrain

Operation Cleaner 2
Detailed Demolition Simulation

Outpost
Choice of starting goods/Location/Base Building/Research

Portal
Post Apocalypse/Piecing together events through terminal information gathering

Project Nomad
Trade/Scanning/Travel/Dialogue

Protostar: War on the Frontier
Travel/Speech/Exploration/Resource Gathering/Trading/Upgrades

Reach For The Stars
4X Play/Simple Interface/Detail/Empire Building

Reunion
Base Building/Research/Expansion/Recruitment/Satellites

Sea Rogue
Artefact Hunting and Retrieval/Equipping/Upgrades/Randomised Locations

Settlers
Simple charts/Economy

Sim City
City Creation/Management

SimEarth
WorldGen/Parameter Tweaking (Weather/Geography/Biomes etc)

SimLife
Genetic Tweaking/”God” Feel

SimTower
Construction/Management/Tower Design

Sink or Swim
Flooding/Rescuing

Space Colony
Micromanagement/Systems/Progression

Space Rangers 2
Multiple Modes (Text/ASCII/RTS/RPG/Trade etc)/Randomly generated worlds

Space Station 13
Varied Jobs/Highly detailed systems/Detailed Atmosphere system/Hacking/

Spore
Evolution/Ascendancy/Procedural Generation (Galaxies-Systems-Planets-Terrain)/Terraforming/Diplomacy/Trade

Star Control II
Humble beginnings/Large map/Upgrades/Exploration/Recruitment

Star Trek Ship Creator
Detailed Ship Design and Construction

Startopia
Derelict Station/Powering up systems/Building/management

The Orion Conspiracy
Station Layout/Conversation

Ultimate Universe
BBS/Multiplayer Trading/WorldGen/Text-Based

Universal Combat
Detailed Ship Systems/Repair/Exploration/Ground-Sea-Air-Space Travel

Warzone 2100
Base Building/Research

Weird Worlds:Return to Infinite Space
Random World each play/Exploration

X Series
Diplomacy/Trade/Exploration/Ship Variety/Empire Building

Films

Event Horizon

Alien (all)

Solaris

2001: A Space Odyssey

Fortress

Twelve Monkeys

Ghosts of Mars

Pitch Black

I Am Legend

Doom