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NEW EPISODE: I Captained a £4,000,000 Starship Filled with Actors (Patreon)

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2025-05-08 13:00:10
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2026-06
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Continuing a trend of Quinns and myself being sent to explore lavishly-designed roleplaying experiences together, we this time ventured into the world of Bridge Command, a "highly interactive theatre experience" set aboard a starship in London (and also in space).Along with a couple of our friends, we were able to bring a small camera crew with us to capture the whole thing and show off what we think is some truly pioneering game design at work. Also, it's very fun. This is one of our fun videos, for sure.I don't know what else to tell you that the video title hasn't already managed. This is about as over-the-top and ridiculous as it sounds.PATREON EXCLUSIVE

And once you've watched the playthrough itself, we've got another little bonus something just for you!Join Quinns as he goes behind-the-scenes with the Bridge Command team and takes a look at how this expensive, sci-fi sausage actually gets made.

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I Captained a £4,000,000 Starship Filled with Actors

Quinns and Chris take some friends and a small film crew with them to play Bridge Command, a "highly interactive theatre experience" set aboard the bridge of an elaborate starship. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeopleMakeGames Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/people-make-games-i-captained-a-4000000-starship-filled-with-actors Bridge Command: https://bridgecommand.space/ Created by Quintin Smith: https://bsky.app/profile/itsquinns.bsky.social And Chris Bratt: https://bsky.app/profile/chrisbratt.bsky.social Music & SFX: Epidemic Sound 00:00 - What is Bridge Command? 01:13 - Meet the crew 02:47 - The mission 04:05 - Diplomat Paxton is looking a bit peaky 08:13 - "Is that spelt with a Q or a K?" 10:57 - The gift of the gab 13:55 - Investigating the shuttle 15:13 - Meanwhile, the ship comes under attack 17:33 - What happened to Paxton? 19:58 - When the engineer leaves the bridge... 21:42 - Illness becomes wellness 26:02 - Introducing Blake Paxton 27:37 - Chris overheats the ship a little bit 30:43 - Arriving at the negotations 33:29 - A final word from the captain 37:02 - And now for something unexpectedly serious 40:54 - A little something for the PMG patrons 42:35 - Outro

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Euphemia Wilson

I'm confused by the £4,000,000 part, after the chat at the start I almost expected the tickets to cost thousands!

People Make Games

Oh interesting, thanks for the feedback on this! It's referencing the amount the owner of Bridge Command told us they spent on building this thing. We're trying to get across that it's an elaborate and *expensive* installation in the hopes that makes it more enticing to watch? We may need to revisit the title, we're trying to figure that out at the moment. -Chris

Bjerg

It made sense to me from just the title that building the ship would be what cost the 4 mil.

Ben C

Amazing video. Wish I was in London to join. Inspired me to try and at least find out if similar events were happening near me. I found these sites (at least for the US?) if anyone is interested. https://everythingimmersive.com/ https://noproscenium.com/ There are of course plenty of escape rooms scattered about but I don't know a good spot for finding out which are worthwhile.

wirving

I just wanted to mention that apparently you guys left an impression at CFPB (RIP, though hopefully not for long): "It's a predatory financial model. You can make games through Roblox, and you get "paid"—in extremely heavy quotation marks—to do it. But you're paid in their provincial currency, that they only pay out at a certain amount. And meanwhile you're paying fees to have the privilege of making those. There's a really good YouTube series from People Make Games, which is a video game journalist outfit. They did a whole series about it where they were talking about creators who are more influential [that] essentially create a pyramid scheme of getting other children to come make games as part of their thing. It's psychotic." https://defector.com/an-interview-with-a-fired-web-content-manager-at-the-consumer-financial-protection-bureau?giftLink=1809c09ad85d8a34133bcb86b090f97b

Charlotte

Holy shit, this is so much more elaborate and better built than Disney's frigging Galactic Star Cruiser. That of course also went out of business, but it's not fair that this one is also currently not bringing in enough...

Kathryn

Thanks for sharing! Everything Immersive and No Proscenium attempts to cover most of the major cities in North America as well as UK (our staff is mainly in London).

Kathryn

For quality escape room reviews check out the Morty app and Room Escape Artist’s web site and podcast.

Ben C

Awesome! I did find an upcoming immersive theater experience in SF that I hope I can go to. I've been to the Speakeasy immersive experience in SF which was amazing and also got to go to Sleep No More in NYC ages ago. However the RP/escape room elements of this Bridge Command experience seem incomparable!? Would love to find something like this on the West Coast somewhere.

Garrett Guillotte

So cool to see Bridge Command featured! This is a bucket-list experience for me, and it sounds like I should hurry up with that bucket. The set design and the actors in particular make this look like such a uniquely fantastic show. Shoutout to the fantastic folks who work on the EmptyEpsilon (EE) software used on the control screens and by the GM, which is fully open-source and freely modified (and also prebuilt and free on Steam). EE is worth a pickup if you want a tiny bit of the Bridge Command experience as a "home version" (or just want to play an Artemis bridge sim-a-like with a game master's mode). The behind-the-scenes video mentions that EmptyEpsilon was also used in Odysseus LARP, which is a multi-day Nordic sci-fi LARP that takes over an entire school building as the ship. It similarly used physical props for ship functions and repairs, and ran in 2019 and again in 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6xNUyijCis Much longer presentations on how they built and ran Odysseus at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76IsgkI3oDU and on more technical details at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE7j1SgUpKs — since it sounds like Bridge Command used Odysseus' fork, some of these details might be similar.

Lula Hiigel

No lie, I would totally watch a full tv season of y’all crewing a starship. Absolutely brilliant. 😄

Laura Mellin

This was brilliant, please tell Quinns I particularly enjoyed his scrolling through the inspirational speeches he’d saved on his phone! :D - Laura M.