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How Heroes are Made: a Kerbal Space Program Story

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Orbital flight. Missions to the mountains. Experiments in the water. The Kerbal Science Centre had done everything they could think of short of producing a Kerbal-rated mission to the Mun. To land a Kerbal on the surface of the Mun and to return him safely to Kerbin — that was the goal, said the director, before we leave the office on Friday. Once the engineers picked their jaws up off the floor, they got to work. Progress was slow, mostly because Jebediah was so excited that he wouldn’t get out…

Guilt and KSP

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I’ve been playing a bit of 0.22, which is the career mode update to Kerbal Space Program. I’m enjoying it, but perhaps not as much as I thought. I’m simply not good enough at the game to earn science points easily. I’m not stuck at the second tier of research, but I’m not sure how much fun it will be to get to the next. I may dive back into sandbox mode, but I feel like slugging it out. I bought into the game at this early stage; I feel…