THE VIDEO SHELF · larp spaceship technology
Ropecon 2019: Essi Santala, Sampo Juustila: Odysseus – Where Code Meets Light and Sound
A Ropecon 2019 talk by a lighting designer and a software engineer on how the Odysseus larp spaceship was built, using over ten IT systems, hundreds of lights and dozens of speakers. It covers the lessons learned.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN people share it as a look at the custom backend and hardware behind a large sci-fi larp.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Ropecon
- Topic
- larp spaceship technology
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2026
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From the original HN conversations
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There's an active forum for bridge sims that's the de facto community space for EmptyEpsilon: [LINK] There's a Discord that assembles online games run by United Stellar Navy (it's officially an role-playing community, but the EmptyEpsilon games aren't heavy on it): [LINK] They organized a …
trynewideas on Hacker News · 2021-08
In Empty Epsilon: a fully open-source spaceship bridge simulator gameI love Odysseus so much. On one hand I think it sounds amazing and would love the opportunity to play it one day. On the other, from a technical accomplishment of volunteer work it is amazing! Just the IT work alone. Here's a video I …
hifikuno on Hacker News · 2026-03
In The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.