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Titania in various locations within the ship as well as planting a scuttling bomb, in an effort to destroy the ship and profit from its insurance. However, both men perished in the attempt with the player finding their dead bodies on the ship. After exploring the vessel and solving puzzles, the player eventually finds all of
Titania's body parts and awakens her, repairing the sabotaged ship and allowing for it to be navigated. The player then accesses the bridge and navigates the ship back to their home on Earth. Throughout the game, the player meets other bots, including Nobby, the "LiftBot", Fortillian, the "BarBot" and D'Astragaaar, the "Maitre d'Bot". The player also meets a parrot that accompanies them throughout most of the journey.
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when the game begins. The game also requires the player to transport items throughout the ship through the Succ-U-Bus, a system of tubes that transfer objects placed in them to other parts of the ship; these tubes can be found in many areas of the ship. The player also needs to use the parrot to solve certain puzzles. A talking bomb can be found in the game and unwillingly armed by the player; if that happens, the player has to either disarm it or distract it during countdown to prevent it from exploding.
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that country rose to 150,000 copies by August 1999. According to the company's creative director Jeff Siegel, a DVD version of the game "did not really sell" despite being an alternative to the three-CD original release. According to
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Baggage, the inventory in which the player can add or withdraw items; Remote Thingummy, a set of functions to interact with objects and locations; Designer Room Numbers, which indicates the player's current location; and
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programs "made the voices sound cold and distant". Douglas Adams claimed that they made "all of your characters sound like semi-concussed
Norwegians". The bots in the game understood around 500 words of vocabulary and were capable of conversing with the player as well as each other. According to
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Digital Village's own developed engine, Lifeboat. The engine was developed by programmers Sean Solle and Rik Heywood, who joined the company in January 1997. Their intention when developing Lifeboat was allowing simultaneous work on different parts of the game,
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September 1997, but was postponed for December 1997 in time for the U.S. Christmas season. However, the game was delayed again, and in January 1998 Adams said the game "should be ready by March".
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gave the game two and a half stars out of five, praising the graphics and visuals as "gorgeous", but criticizing the playability, the bots' responses in the text parser, and ultimately thought that the game is "just not very funny".
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praised the text parser and wrote that as the game progresses, "it's impossible to get anywhere" without asking the bots questions, adding that "the humor of the answers alone makes it worth asking questions". Paul Presley of
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s most enduring legacy" is a forum in the older version of the game's official website, which was developed by The Digital Village's web developer Yoz Grahame. The starship's fictional construction company
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Young, Jeffrey Adam (5 May 1998). "'Starship' sails on word power".
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787:and all associated intellectual property to
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3136:Oldfield, Andy (19 October 1998). "Bytes".
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1274:The game received two nominations for the
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3553:Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic: A Novel
3503:The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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4190:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future
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4136:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
4117:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
4102:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
3936:So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
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3975:The Private Life of Genghis Khan
3694:Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2821:. No. 17. pp. 236–237.
1946:Kushner, David (16 April 1998).
1926:"Interview with Douglas Adams".
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2518:Fudge, James (25 March 1999).
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771:announced on 8 July 1998 that
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2832:Dickens, Evan (20 May 2002).
2450:. 4 June 1998. Archived from
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2280:. 13 May 1996. Archived from
1586:Adams, Douglas (2005). "10".
1420:Kalata, Kurt (13 July 2010).
1362:
1280:PC Adventure Game of the Year
419:
4290:Video games by Douglas Adams
4250:First-person adventure games
4230:Adventure games set in space
4052:Monty Python's Flying Circus
3836:Fiordichthys slartibartfasti
3325:"H2G2 Leaving The BBC Soon!"
3110:Brussel, Joe (8 July 1997).
3083:"Raise the Starship Titanic"
2999:Dulin, Ron (21 April 1998).
2943:Computer Games Strategy Plus
2886:Poole, Stephen (July 1998).
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2400:Computer Games Strategy Plus
2352:Computer Games Strategy Plus
2096:Harlan, Megan (8 May 1998).
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4260:Novels based on video games
3677:Marvin the Paranoid Android
2598:. No. 172. p. 34.
2213:Herz, J.C. (9 April 1998).
1286:. Likewise, the editors of
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4021:The Deeper Meaning of Liff
3982:Young Zaphod Plays It Safe
3617:The Original Radio Scripts
3546:Young Zaphod Plays It Safe
3295:. 13 May 2001. p. 7A.
3292:Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
3183:Staff (16 February 1999).
2936:Yans, Cindy (5 May 1998).
2250:. No. 7. p. 403.
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2860:"Starship Titanic Review"
2834:"Starship Titanic Review"
2775:Dixon, Mike (July 1999).
2559:. 1 June 1999. p. 9.
1725:The Sydney Morning Herald
1508:. No. 41. p. 7.
1505:The Sydney Morning Herald
1462:(43): 110–111. July 1998.
1309:
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1268:Adventure Classic Gaming
1071:Adventure Classic Gaming
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249:Written and designed by
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3773:Somebody else's problem
3354:Richards, Neil (1998).
3190:The Electric Playground
2171:Computer Graphics World
1289:The Electric Playground
1167:, Stephen Poole called
649:as a visual reference.
362:
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3779:Encyclopedia Galactica
2447:Los Angeles Daily News
1770:Los Angeles Daily News
1332:1 January 2014 at the
802:on 17 September 2015.
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2818:Computer Gaming World
2595:Computer Gaming World
1338:Starlight Lines Corp.
1146:Computer Gaming World
897:Computer Gaming World
672:
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4245:Fictional spacecraft
4240:Classic Mac OS games
2103:Entertainment Weekly
1687:. 18 November 1997.
1452:"Starship Titanic".
1428:on 24 September 2017
1238:Entertainment Weekly
244:text adventure games
242:similar to those of
4035:The Salmon of Doubt
4000:The Meaning of Liff
3561:The Salmon of Doubt
3379:Webb, Nick (2005).
2756:on 2 September 1999
2627:The Washington Post
2082:. pp. F1, F13.
1314:In a 2015 article,
1261:New York Daily News
1125:"Freakin' Awesome!"
845:
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623:modern architecture
516:Ian Charles Stewart
500:The Digital Village
427:first imagined the
220:The Digital Village
178:25 March 1999 (Mac)
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4193:(BBC radio series)
4014:Last Chance to See
3843:Kiitoksia kaloista
3816:25924 Douglasadams
3581:And Another Thing…
3362:Three Rivers Press
3164:on 4 November 1999
3112:"Starship Titanic"
2938:"Starship Titanic"
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2220:The New York Times
2098:"Starship Titanic"
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3289:"Douglas Adams".
3227:on 1 October 2017
3197:on 16 August 2000
2695:on 1 October 2017
2613:. 25 August 1999.
2454:on 1 October 2017
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2284:on 1 October 2017
2079:Los Angeles Times
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