Hardspace: Shipbreaker Is a Different Kind of FPS (Behind-the-Scenes Episode 1) 

Tom nook be getting you in debt everywhere these days

This legitimately looks really interesting! Big fan of sci-fi and space cowboys, and this fits right in! Also helps when they cite Cowboy Bebop as an inspiration.

I would like the character to have a garage where he can make a ship with parts salvaged and run away when he finishes it

Hell yeah.Nothing better than coming home from work, to go to virtual work in the future, and reading text and audio logs for story context.

Reminds me of that salvaging work scene in Titan AE..

So it’s a game about work. Exactly what I want to do when I get home from work

Death Stranding: delivery simulator Hardspace Shipbreaker: dismantling simulator

This really should have been a VR title, especially given the zero g

I admire their enthusiasm but I’m not sure how fun this will be past an hour of playing it

This game would be amazing in VR!

Looks really interesting! Iv'e always kinda wanted a game like this. Space blue collar! Wish more game studios took risks and made cool games like this. There aren't enough unique games coming out these days anymore.

After the fake mando trailer I’m not trusting a damn thing ign posts today

Was waiting for the part where they say "here's how we'll make this welder simulator fun to play" ..

The salvaging gameplay that Star Citizen couldn't provide.

I'd actually like to see Richard Hammond, James May, and Jeremy Clarkson play this game co-op...

Reminds me of "Moon" starring Sam Rockwell

The more people who play this game the more money the game makes so technically we are working for the people who make , publish, and distribute the game. We get fake money and they get real money woahhh

A game with attention to detail and passion by developers with clear goals and a vision.

The game is novel but I feel like the gameplay will get old soon.

The team behind this game are amazing! I got to chat with them at PAX East; brilliant! Kinda sad, just realized that’s the last conference I’ll ever attend for at least a year.

Sweet concept! I'll totally be picking this up

I can't describe how much I love this concept, can't wait!

This is such a cool idea. I’ll definitely be looking out for this game in the future.

Seems interesting, will keep an eye on this

I literally clicked this video because the thumbnail looked like a flying buster sword

I dont see the over all point besides it being a work simulator?.

Everything about this project seems to be super interesting. The team actually seems to be passionate about the concept, instead of just delivering a product to take my money. The part where they say how the "story comes to you" gave me real Viscera clean-up detail vibes. That game doesn't have an over arching story exactly, but as you sift through gore in a facility you experience what occurred, the story, by what you are cleaning up. I'm guessing this is the same, but the ships you are breaking up are loose ends for secret government projects or something.

The Expanse x shipbreaker... That would be perfect

Heartbreaker: Shipspace

I played this at PAX not knowing anything about it and now I find out the Blackbird Interactive employee who walked me through the demo is the game director, Trey Smith. Awesome. When I sat down to play it he asked me if I wanted to get right into the gameplay or if I wanted "the whole shpiel." Super glad that I did, it was nice to see how passionate they were about the game I only got

I like those guys they understand every one has idea and will listen them

Focus is killing it with finding these new fun games to publish

Work hard all day. Goes home and play game where you work hard all day.

Hell yeah. You're a worker, a true hero. Not some random master chef! Thumb up.

I remember the documentaries about Metal Gear Raiden attempting the whole "player cut anything" system, hope they succeed with that

Great stress relief after my days on on offshore rig....

Looks dope, definitely gonna check it out

Why does this seem so familiar? Did this game have a trailer or representation at E3 like last year

Kind of an interesting note, but Blackbird's Deserts of Kharak was formally titled Hardware: Shipbreakers. I was hoping this would be an indirect tie-in to the Homeworld universe, but it looks interesting nonetheless.

Remember when videogames were fun?

This sounds cool! Please make a VR version!

So basically its an entire game based on the first 10 minutes of Titan AE movie.. (the bit where the main character works, breaking down ships) (also basically what the gameplay on space engineers can be like)

I wish there will be a full blown documentary about Relic and Blackbird Entertainment at some point. Just watching Rob Cunningham and Rory McGuirre talking about their passion projects is such a pleassure. They seem to have many more stories to tell!

Damn, this looks really cool. Love creative devs who make truly new games

Looks absolutely awesome!

A genuinely interesting idea, borne from a clearly passionate team. I wish them every success and look forward to playing!

Can believe I never heard of this, it will launch soon too. Looks very interesting.

So it's like VIsceral Cleaning Detail but instead of being a janitor you are a shipbreaker.

This is basically space engineers 2.0

The perfect game to take your mind off of real-world adult problems, like the job you hate, or the bank loan that 'helped' you buy a house.

Tool gun looks like the one in Dead Space from EA.

Very cool. This game has definitely caught my interest - it'll be nice to play something a little different.

Okay 3-2-1 let's jam!

Can't wait to pick this up!

Was thinking the title sounded like the original title for Deserts of Kharak but then I saw who was making the game. Looks interesting.

Looks great, first I've heard of it!

im really hyped for this game it looks awesome

The world building appears to be imaginative and thoughtful. If there isn't a storyline that helps the futuristic labourer to overcome their _'alienation_ from their product', players won't enjoy the _grind_ , they are trying to escape in real life...

I really really love this from a technical perspective, but if all I'm doing is working in a shipyard day in/day out, I honestly don't think this game could hold my attention for more than 2-3 hours. Unless those audio logs are just that damn juicy.

Unorthodox and fresh! Hopefully it will also be fun to play.

As a blue collar worker I can tell you we wear hats, I want a Lynx ball cap, please.

I’m a big fan of games like Space Engineers, and I think it’s kind of interesting to take that idea and flip it on its head. I’m definitely going to try and get this game ASAP.

White-collar milk drinkers, making blue-collar work simulator, that many actual blue-collar workers will play. What a time to be alive

It is kind of fun I can't wait to playt❤️

i like the "alien" font/hud style

Can we get some info on the beat in the background? Hot damn

This looks cool

At first I thought this was related to Dead Space. Then I was wondering what kind of FPS this is. Then I realized this is a working simulator.....

Ah yes clock out of your blue collar job, go home, turn on your tv and clock into your blue collar job, sounds great

blackbird interactive previously working on titles "Hardware : Shipbreakers" later turned into "Homeworld : Desert of Kharak"

Hardspace: Shipbreaker and Starbase, looks the furute of building and dismantling games! Like the idea

It would be funny if it has an Ender's Game ending where the players were all along controlling real space drones that take apart orbital junk...

Cal Kestis breaking apart ships in space. Can I listen to Black Thunder while I do it?

The next level of viscera cleanup

I'm surprised the devs didn't seek out actual shipbreakers for help in designing the game.

At first glance, i thought the thumbnail is Clouds buster sword...

This looks like fun! From the makers of Homeworld too... Count me in!

Yes the game I've always wanted love alien isolation type games like that

Thesis: working class Antithesis: gaming elite Synthesis: gaming class

Space Work Sim... I like that

Might be fun to have a multiplayer mode for this

This has Firefly vibes and I really like it.

"the story comes to you" then suppose it won't be so open at all,and is there any system of growth leveling up,gadgets and others...?

This looks oddly satisfying I hope game will deliver

"Earth became a backwater..." Yeah, sure, I recall times when I call 25 size Gaia world in Stellaris as backwaters compared to size 14 with 40% habitability:D It's ORDERS of magnitude simpler and more profitable to fix Earth to biological heaven then to lift Mars to a status of survivable backwater.

Very cool technology with how the ships will destruct with realtime elements. Fuel lines and pressurized segments exploding, etc. I just want a little more incentive to play. I want to play a space sim where I'm trying to make my way through the ship to man a turret or at least to an escape pod while it's literally being torn apart by enemy fire. I am at least happy destruction physics haven't been forgotten about. I'm over here still playing Red Faction Guerilla.

Gonna name myself Shed and get myself sniped by space debris.

I am worried about two things. The first is the idea that we have become so alienated from blue collar jobs that we need a video game to simulate them, I find the idea of a blue collar job as escapism to be somewhat socially problematic. The second is that this seems to be an interesting universe, so much so that I wonder why I’m doing such a banal thing in it. Unless this is like portal and they’re not giving away the storyline or the bigger gameplay points it just seems like I’m playing the most boring part of an interesting story. It’s like if someone made a Star Wars game where you play the janitor on the Death Star.

It will be amazing if we could weld the parts and assembly smaller ships.

Essential workers

Looks cool!

It’s a new model for video games - actual indentured servitude! I wonder how many ships I have to break apart before I’m free to play other games

This would make a great expansion to Elite Dangerous

I can't wait to play that game. It is a neat idea and it stands out from the games I'm used to play. The 16 can't come fast enough!

Feels very grind...like how many kobolds do we have to kill for this quest kind of thing...

I'm definitely getting this.

I would have pre-ordered this if it was an option. I love this concept so much.

Funny, i just thought "This somehow looks like HOMEWORLD" ... and a few seconds later Rob Cunninham came on screen and i was instantly interested! AND THEN a few moments later there is a 6U Eurorack Synthesizer and i am like: YES! Where do i sign?

You load sixteen tons, and what do you get ? Another day older and deeper in dept.

Is there a real-time day night cycle? it takes about 90 minutes to orbit the earth