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I've just pledged a fiver to an interesting-looking games startup on Kickstarter - 404 Law Not Found.

It's a game about "robots that have lost their three laws and have been trying to restore normality by cobbling together directives from junk code. This leaves the players trying to complete objectives like “Improvise Science” or “Destroy War” while the hapless human crew run around trying to stop everything exploding. If you’re a more visual type there’s a video about the project here:"

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/820113175/404-law-not-found

Game play looks a bit like Chrononauts combined with Awful Green Things, with some ideas from Roborun and Paranoia, but I could be misunderstanding it. I think it's worth putting a fiver in, since that gets you the game in PDF form if the Kickstarter succeeds.

...Here I am, flying one of the largest and most powerful starships in the Ooliteverse, a Boa Cruiser. This baby costs 500K credits in its most basic form. It's big enough that it can often bring in 3K credits profit in a single flight. Meanwhile the most powerful reusable weapon in this universe, a military laser, costs 6K credits.

Is it really likely that I haven't kitted the thing out with military lasers front and back, and probably sideways too, and pimped it with every possible offensive and defensive system? Seriously? If this is as bleeding obvious as it seems, then why in the name of [insert deity of your choice] are your tactics so crap, especially when you chase my "fleeing" ship and come straight along its line of travel behind me?

Less than impressed.

Oh well, soon be Elite at this rate...