GeekWire app of the week: Spaceteam
Jan 7, 2013, 10:25 AM | Updated: 10:46 am
This week's GeekWire app of the week makes you feel like a team member on a space craft. (Image courtesy iTunes)
(Image courtesy iTunes)
“Activate Dark Rim!” “Set Sigmaclapper to 0.” “Dial up the Copernicus Crane.”
These are just a few of the crazy commands you might shout out playing this week’s GeekWire app of the week: Spaceteam.
“It’s a free app for the iPhone and iPad, and what you do is you all connect to the same Wi-Fi network and your devices are connected to each other and it’s like you’re members of Star Fleet going through the academy,” says GeekWire host Todd Bishop.
Bishop explains players are jointly flying a space craft, and the crazy commands shouted between players keeps the mission on track.
“When you hear these kind of random commands, if you have on your dashboard a command the other player is trying to [find], you then press the button on the dashboard or flip the switch.”
Attempting a mission live on the show, the Spaceteam of GeekWire hosts Todd Bishop, John Cook, and GeekWire contributor Emily Shahan unfortunately crashed their vessel, but all had a good time.
“I haven’t come across a Wi-Fi game like that where everybody plays collaboratively,” says Cook. “That’s pretty cool.”
“It makes you feel like you’re flying on the Enterprise,” says Shahan.
Check out Spaceteam app for iPhone, iPad.
