Nerd heaven!
There I was, minding my own business, preparing a blog post. Thought I’d take a break, and popped over to Twitter to see what’s up there… and:
Randall Munroe’s online comic xkcd has a lovely interactive game today, where you can pilot your ship to explore different planets full of SF/F references. And one of them has a steerswoman!
I cannot express how chuffed I am at this! I love xkcd, nerdly nerd that I am. And look, there’s a steerswoman in it! Right there!
Seriously, how cool am I now?
The interactive game is quite complex and varied! Navigation is tricky, and seems only possible on a computer with a keyboard. And it’s a bit counter-intuitive, as GRAVITY seems to actually operate. You can get caught in a gravity well, loop around in orbit of something just out of sight, or spin off into space if you’re not alert. I ended up in the center of the Sun more than once, and my little ship did not have enough ooph to escape.
I have so far been unable to actually reach the steerswoman’s world… if you manage to get there, let me know how you did it!
(If you get stuck, I think the fastest way to reset is to hit “previous” and go to a previous comic, then hit “next” to get back and start all over.)
