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ARM Planetary Prospectors Asteroid Resource Mining
Trapped as an asteroid mining prisoner, explore, mine and craft to find unique ways to escape from the Mining Barge that is under control of an advanced AI alien race. Explore an procedural generated open world with fully destructible environments governed by Newtonian physics in this space flight sim, psychological survival horror game.
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Release Date: 15 Sep, 2015
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Title: ARM Planetary Prospectors Asteroid Resource Mining
Genre: Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access
Developer: nefarious Dimensions iNteractive , nDi
Publisher: Nefarious Dimensions Inc.
Release Date: 15 Sep, 2015

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Note: This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“We want to hear from you, for feedback on gameplay and storytelling. NDi is an independent game studio and we need your honest opinions & suggestions. We care about the Community and we want to make sure we build, what the community wants. Feedback, testing and iterative design are essential in game development; you can count on us to listen and utilize feedback generated by the Community and include them in our road map.

BONUS Purchase Early Access for Episode 1 and include a Free future Key to continue in Episode 2

We believe we’ve created something really special here, and we want your input to take ARM Planetary Prospectors to the next level. As we continue to improve and support ARMPP into the future and beyond.

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?
The full version of ARM Planetary Prospectors is expected to be released in Fall 2016, on PC and MacOS. Then later on other platforms such as PS4 and Xbox One.

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?
The full version will build on the core features that already make the Early Access version enjoyable, but we’re dedicated to adding and improving new ones with every update. Feedback from Early Access players will undoubtedly bring in suggestions that we can use to make the full version more robust and packed with improved content. We’re currently working on clever ways to play in Free-For-All mode while building out amazing storylines, all while developing a unique type of multiplayer. The current graphics and gameplay are not final, and will be subject to change.

What is the current state of the Early Access version?
The core gameplay is there, although the player is imprisoned aboard a Mining Barge, and has to mine and craft a way to freedom. Players can also currently pilot Mining Repair Rescue Mechs in a realistic space-mining simulator that is focused on fun, and not just click and mine. Space mining is very dangerous and risky job, there are many things that can go wrong and hidden dangers lurking in the unknown.

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?
Yes. ARM Planetary Prospectors is currently discounted for Early Access, as we are adding more content bi-weekly. We want to encourage and reward our early adapters and contributors with digital and physical rewards.

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?
Community support will be the backbone to the success of ARM Planetary Prospectors We want to hear your thoughts on the game so we can make improvements during Early Access while we still have time to significantly improve the game.

We’ve integrated an idea and bug report tool into the game, which allows us to track the amount of contributions any community member makes. We want to thank our contributors with well-deserved rewards!

The community is encouraged to connect with us via our website and social media as well, if they’d like to learn more about NDi, the game itself, and keep informed about our updates:

Website: https://www.PlanetaryProspectors.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NefDimensions
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NefariousDimensions/

Like us on Facebook, and Follow us on Twitter, we will be giving reward points, for the Community sharing on social media. The more success we have, the better we can make the final version.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“The plan currently is to make ARM great enough to win some awards, then it will be finally released once it's Finished. Once the release of the full game, NDi will then begin releasing the following episodes. Although we plan to keep it in early access until it's polished and ready to ship.

We are also started planing a Kickstarter for the iOS/Android cross platform Companion game that will have Cross Platform Multiplayer with ARM Planetary Prospectors”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“The final release of "Episode One" will include a procedurally generated "near infinite" open world multiverse, destructible environments, simulated Newtonian physics, component system damage and much more. Players will "Choose their own Adventure" as they find ways to break free from the Mining Barge. They will meet enemies and friends along the way, as they come together to earn or find a clever way to escape the Mining Barge Prison.

After the final version, we will work to bring a Multiplayer experience, where friends can join in and help collect minerals. Later on, once mass amounts of minerals are collected, we will add a module that will allow Player, to design, craft and construct their own mining colonies, refineries, and setup defensive fortifications. Explore, Prospect, Mine, and Survive against rival mining corporations, pirates, bounty hunters and atrocious aliens.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The game is currently in Alpha PvA (Asteroids) (PvE) form with additional episodes, new tools, new mechs/spacecraft, more branching stories and additional planets to be added over time.


In-game press R to Report and take screenshots of the bug or suggestions. Points will be awarded for doing so

Updated recently with renegade space pirates, and knifing merchants that provide black market items that can be useful trying to escape the mining barge prison.


The graphics and content are not final and subject to change

Xterminators AI Security bots
Merchant Ships to trade and upgrade the mech and tools
Friend MRRM mining AI (give orders, they will listen...if they like you)
Dialog System and Quests
Fully Destructible and Procedural generated Asteroids
Component Damage (Damage certain parts will have gameplay effects)
Simulated Newtonian Physics (Experience what its like to pilot a Mining Mech in zero gravity)
Upgrade system (Spend credits to further improve and upgrade the Mech)
Defensive Turrets
Meteor Storms
Inventory system with NPCs that can craft tools and items
Oculus Rift VR supported
HOTAS and gamepad supported”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“The price may go up after Early Access, as the community helps steer the final design and destination of ARM PP. The exact pricing has not been decided at this time.


Early Access adaptors get a bonus free pass for Episode TWO. Get it Now, before we Launch



Xbox One and PS4 prices may also be different”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We will discuss content and features with the Early Access community and see where they can help us make changes or implement their ideas. We are not a secretive gaming company, we want to be open and transparent with the community and have them involved in our development process. After all, we are making this game for the Community and not just for ourselves.

Come join our Public Trello Room and discuss suggestions, and report/track bugs.


https://trello.com/b/6dByRD5r ( Partial Road map is also here )

This is just our first step, and one giant leap for Gamerkind!”
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24 May

ARM Alive! on Life Support after taking some hits! Repairs then Launch

Greetings enlighten Community, even our haters that gave us a negative review, we will hopefully, in time will meet your expectations and then in return your review will become a Positive. As it may sound like a Conspiracy theory, although, why do we only have 23 reviews and how little sales we had since our Launch date over a year ago. Sale or coverage, barely anything, most games get more coverage and exposer in the first Month or so. It's almost like something more NEFARIOUS is going on here, such as suppression of information amongst other antics. I'm not blaming Valve or any company, as we don't have any evidence other than usually low traffic. Maybe in part due to our lack of indie marketing experience, still seems odd from this perspective. Almost like a shroud of media blackout, or perhaps something more sinister, manipulating and pulling the strings...?

Joking aside, It's Actually all part of a more complex charade, meta-connectivity to the Psychological Sci-Fi Thriller motive, rather than attempting cheap, cheesy Horror jump scares. I encourage the Community to startup conversations about types of Psychological storytelling seen in Eternal Darkness and Metal Gear Solid. We have some different ideas on where we take the characters and the different types of relationships they can have with each other, and how they can be socially engineered and manipulated, against or together to achieve goals. Nothing is final in the game, we can adapt and make changes.

NDi's team and work Philosophies are similar and inline with the likes of Valve's leaked Employee's Handbook and Blizzard's credo.


Hence we are still in Early Access, and will continue to be in this stage until myself, NDi Crew and the NDi Community are ready to Launch, be proud of what we made together as a combined united collective to improve the Quality of ARM Planetary Prospectors EP1 making it a smashing hit, with a chance to win some Awards.

As our small Indie Developer Spacecraft, pivots and and readjusts calibrations, sets a final coarse and destination for our road map to Final Launch EP1.

Some of our devs are teaching or working FT at other developers, thus making our progress much slower only being able to work PT at this point in time. We are looking to spread the workload around more, so we can have ARM completed to spec, sooner. We are reaching out to fill roles within the company, that we are sharing with the founders, and the future founders.

NDi is looking for the following Developers to help finishing ARM Early Access, and work on the secret project(s)

Graphics Shader Programmer
AI Programmer
Physics Programmer
Gameplay Programmer
VR Programmer
2D/3D Artist
3D Animator
FX Unity Artists

We are looking to fill Lead roles, including a CTO role which we can discuss shares and other options.

We are trying to be a social, super flat democratic company and Community:)

Send us your Resumes or message info@NefariousDimensions.com

Currently NDi has some investors and moving forward with a government grant.

We are going to be more transparent with the community, opening up a message board on Trello, where the Road Map, Bugs, Suggestions and chat about this and that can help improve the final version of ARM, so that we can win some Awards and be apart of that team that won!

https://trello.com/b/6dByRD5r/arm-planetary-prospectors-ep1-road-map

Unfortunately NDi has suffered some impacts from false DMCA claims, and invalid Copyright infringement claims, that led to legal matters that unknowingly took way from our development time and resources. Financially due to low sales and lack of exposer, making our sales very low and unable to pay the developers at this time. Instead stock, and IOU's were arranged. Some devs had to take other positions at other companies, plus many other issues that nearly grounded ARM indefinitely. Once our sales increase we will then be able to pay our developers and produce future sequels and other projects in the works.


Some pieces are still missing, some content not complete, with bugs to fix, however, now a clearer, more precise creative vision is developing based on constant community feedback and developer iterations.

Our company NDi's Goal is to succeed in making a memorable gaming Masterpiece that will withhold the test of time, and be mentioned as a Future Classic, in the Smithsonian next to other Video Game works of Art. If you want to be a part of this, and help save ARM....Join NDi and become a hero for the Community!


Thanks Community, and reach out to your developer friends to see if you or they can contribute to this WIP work of art.

CMDR
USSC Nefarious



(NDi)) Nefarious Dimensions

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19 February

Patches & another Update on the way Lets get Ship Shape for Launch day!

Hi Community, some of our team members are working hard on polishing the early access so that we can release episode one for our fans.

We have reports some have a bug that has been stopping progress. If you do, please post on the forums or email support, better yet please press the R button to send a screenshot and write a brief report, so then we can track and fix the issue easily.

Our goal is to wrap up the condensed version of EP1 so we can turn it into a sales success, so we can then continue on with EP2 and later future EP3.

Please be patience and stay active in the community and play regularly while reporting bugs.

Patches will be coming over the next few days, and expect the next update sometime in the following months.

The next Update will have a present surprise and might be our final updates before Final release

We need feedback to make the game better, send in your reports and gain awards for helping the dev team.

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We are still in Early Beta Access and will be updating and adding features, fixing bugs, and tuning the gameplay. We listen to our community, and value their opinions. NDi's goal is to provide the most fun and exhilarating Space Exploration, Mining Psychological Survival Horror game on the market. Then eventually port to Sony PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Xbox One.

About This Game



Space Flight Mining Simulator, with a Psychological Survival horror twist.

Live the life of ordinary Deep Space Asteroid Miner, that wakes up everyday enslaved to mine asteroids for precious resources and minerals, while being under surveillance and supervision of an advanced alien A.I. controlled mega mining corporation A.R.M.

All while the Andromeda Galaxy is doomed to collide with the Milky Way, is all hope lost. Is there no way to stop it? Can some unlike heroes from different species set aside their differences and utilize each other strengths to endure fate, adapt and overcome destiny. Find a way to escape the mining prison barge, and safe your Family!

ARM will be remembered as a unique Classic of being a vulnerable space miner trapped as a prisoner aboard a mining barge converted into a prison for asteroid miners. Wake up, Mine, explore, then use your wits and skills to find a way to escape the barge and find her family.

Work as a captive Asteroid Miner, pay off your debt, or find other clever ways to escape the malevolent AI overlords, orbiting Earth

+Worlds First Space Mining Flight Simulator
+Science based GeoPhysics inspired by Thermodynamics and Aeronautics
+Simulated Newtonian Physics based on Real factual science simulations
+Procedural Generated near infinite "Open World Multiverse" (Player is reborn, as the consciousness has been trapped and now controlled by the AI)
+Fully Destructible Environments, mine asteroids and collect minerals to trade or have crafted
+Trade with merchant ships, while avoiding hostile raiders and rival mining corporations
+Find tools and have them crafted them in order to escape the prison
+Component and Systems damage, oxygen, water, fuel are only some of the systems set in play for survival

+Episodic content including rescue, repair, racing and archaeological missions (EP1 currently in Early Access)
+Psychological Survival Horror mixed with Anime style Quest and RPG elements
+VR Oculus Rift and HOTAS/Gamepad Support (Vive HMD support coming soon)
+Community driven receives points and rewards for finding bugs and coming up with new ideas

Can you be clever and find a way to escape the prison of being a slave space miner? Then build a mining fleet and become the wealthiest miniMofo in the Universe?

Episode One EARLY ACCESS (ND crew vows to continue to support Planetary Prospectors for years to come)

Bonus Future Steam Early Access for ARM:Planetary Prospectors Episode II

You have to wonder, “Am I free to be a slave, or is the AI messing with my mind?” There’s only one way to find out. Hatch an escape plan while you mine for the Company. Pound lasers into asteroids long enough, you might find an alien artifact and never work again. That is, if the pirates and corporate raiders don’t get there first. Their lasers are bigger, no offense, but you can upgrade, craft tools, and raid other mining camps for supplies. You do what you need to survive. Unless the AI controls you. Then all bets are off.


Your life in the 99% isn’t easy, not like the old days when there was enough for everyone. A debt slave to the Megamine Corporation, you scrape asteroids in the hope that one day you’ll find your little piece of the pie, just enough to peel off your bondage license and buy a ticket back to Euloo New Earth II.... If you don’t die first.

‘Cause dying is easy. Plenty of Luckless out here, poor bastards done in by ruptured oxygen lines, damaged comms, or off-kilter nav kits, the standard end-of-the-line equipment your credit chit can afford. That’s not counting the gas itself, which you extract night after night for propellant and Megamine profits. Sometimes, it propels you, deep into the everlasting darkness.

Nights are all the same. Wake up in a cage somewhere outside Koops Asteroid Belt, take orders from an evil machine, pound rocks all day will lasers and, if you’re lucky, slide some home brewed Hava past the collar to unwind.

It’s a lonely line of work, your friends being not so trustworthy, but there’s always the odd pirate ship to keep you company and spice up your day, even if it is your last. Megamine isn’t the only big player out here, and the gas isn’t the only treasure.

Ever since Deepworld scientists confirmed the existence of microbial life somewhere in the vicinity of Eeloa, your stomping ground has gotten a whole lot more crowded. Aliens are in vogue, and finding the first signs of intelligent life have brought out the crazies. Yeah, even crazier than you.

Just yesterday, the crew next door went off the reservation when their Debris Field Scanning Analyst (DFSA) identified a very strange anomaly coming from an oddly shaped asteroid. Could have been a wild goose chase, ‘cept they didn’t come back.

Wake up! Megamine just tasked you with finding them. Your orders are to fly into the asteroid tunnels and see what happened.

Just another one of those crazy dreams, this time without the night tremors...Well I better get out of bed, before that Xterminator comes for inspection. I really rather dream of breaking out of this prison, and find my family, that I only have a photo of ...that is...if they are still alive.

Try not to be a Luckless.

Daily Journal -Mining Cycle 632
Dr. Whoknows
Slave Space Miner Tag #3-259-00-9201

Still Early ACCESS our graphics and gameplay are subject to change. We reward our Community for making suggestions and finding bugs. We are an indie team that will keep ARM in EarlyAccess until it is ready to LAUNCH! Expected Episode ONE for Fall 2017. Come join the Community and make a difference and real impact!

If you are having any difficulty with the game, reach out, and report it to us first before putting negative comments. We want to work with you and make ARM a memorable and amazing game that players will appreciate for generations to come.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 7
    • Processor: Intel Core Duo 2.20 GHz or equalivant
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 2 GB video card Dedicated DX 11 Compatible GPU
    • DirectX: Version 10
    • Storage: 3 GB available space
    • Sound Card: generic
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: Intel i7 3.60 GHz or equalivant
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 4 GB video card Dedicated DX 11 Compatible GPU
    • DirectX: Version 10
    • Storage: 3 GB available space
    • Sound Card: generic
    • Additional Notes: The better the GPU, the more intense the procedural generation will be
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