Horizon HQ

The main hubworld for Space Caretaker For Hire. This is the centre of the worlds you visit in the game and is the place where Nova and other caretakers live and work.

Area 1: Ground Floor and Gardens

• Artificial gardens?
  • cowboy beeboop
• set up by company to help keep people sane
• real plants but they behind glass/preserved (mark quinn)
  • easter egg for planets yet to visit
  • without the bite marks
• working out a reason for characters to be still
• made by the company or by disgruntled workers trying to add personality
• wide open spaces VS cramped corridors

Area 2: Apartments

• Japanese pod hotels?
• 80s style scifi meets cabin member quarters on cruises
• larger >> uni accommodation, bed, cupboard
• inside of the enterprise >> chrome, shiny
• Limits to how homely you can make it
  • amazon towns
  • allowed some personalisation
  • but communal areas make it presentable
  • too small to customise

Area 3: Backrooms

• Not accessible from the beginning?? allows a sense of the space opening up
• showing more signs of Grubbs influence, more organic >> worm farms?
• underneath water treatment plant