The full team involved people in multiple studios and cities. Writers who helped included comic book writer Mike Johnson and Brannon Boren. “We’re making references to Star Trek events that are more recent than that.” “We want fans who, unlike some of us, are not so old that they would be fans of a 1980s film,” he said. The writing has callbacks to different Star Trek stories, such as Voyager. The team sculpted a lot of content to create all of the no-win situations where you die in the game, so that you only have a one in 10,000 chance of winning. “It also reaches the biggest possible audience, as opposed to asking someone to download a new application onto their phone,” he said. The web game format was a natural evolution of the retro click-based adventure design. “The stories we tell about Kirk and Spock going on different adventures - that’s a big part of what Star Trek fleet command is,” he said. The story is consistent with the way that the team has evolved the narrative in Star Trek: Fleet Command, which introduced a Khan character. The Kobayashi Maru is famous for both its original appearance there and then later, in canonical and non canonical appearances, including the new J.J. “There is a lot of great fandom for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Kirk famously did.”ĭavid Eckelberry, the general manager of Star Trek: Fleet Command, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the game took about a year to create and the germ of the idea hearkens back to retro games like LucasArts’ story-based adventures in the 1980s and 1990s.

They really latched onto the idea of exploring the Kobayashi Maru, and it was a natural step to come up with this experience where you’re a cadet who refuses to give up when faced with this impossible simulation - just as James T. He added, “The Kobayashi Maru simulator is a very different experience: It’s an homage to those great ’80s adventure games in a situation that is, well… ‘unwinnable.’ The idea to build an experience around the Kobayashi Maru presented itself while we were brainstorming ideas with the writers at CBS. “Star Trek: Fleet Command is an experience about establishing an Independent base in a tumultuous Alpha Quadrant, exploring the galaxy, running missions for the major factions, building alliances, and more.” “We set out to craft a novel experience that would reach a different part of the Star Trek fandom than our mobile game,” he said. The motivation was built around a marketing effort to reach people who weren’t already inside the Star Trek: Fleet Command game.Īvery Sakamoto, the lead game designer of Star Trek: Fleet Command, said in an email that he hopes everyone has as much fun (dying) in the game his team had creating it. The idea started with brainstorming sessions the Scopely Star Trek team did with the CBS writing team, which makes the movies and other lore.

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