Heroes of the Antarctic
Antarctic Simulator 2014
Future Project
A ROGUELIKE SIMULATION AND ROLEPLAYING EXPERIENCE OF HISTORICAL EVENTS
Begin Your Journey
Choose Your Own Objectives
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Oh, The Wonderful Ways You'll Die

Similar to most roguelike games, Antarctic Simulator 1914: Heroes of the Antarctic has random events and permanent death. There is no option to load a checkpoint and try again. But unlike most roguelikes, the events of your expedition carry over into future trips to the Pole.
- Explorers that die can no longer be chosen as crewmates in subsequent expeditions.
- Cruelly, if all your crew dies on an expedition then all their discoveries and progress is lost.
- But so long as one crew member makes it home alive, the deeds of your adventure will be saved.
History is no Picnic
These are the choices explorers of the early 1900's had to face, and so will you.
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Experience an Emergent Story

Your story of early twentieth-century exploration will unfold based on the choices you make and how those choices resolve themselves. No two people will play the same game.
Learn the toll leadership takes. Decisions will cost resources, even lives, and sometimes the wisest choice will be turning back.
Get immersed in history. Read what great explorers wrote about the experiences your crew is facing. Learn how they survived (or didn't) from the choices they made. And yes, you can even die of dysentery.
Learn the toll leadership takes. Decisions will cost resources, even lives, and sometimes the wisest choice will be turning back.
Get immersed in history. Read what great explorers wrote about the experiences your crew is facing. Learn how they survived (or didn't) from the choices they made. And yes, you can even die of dysentery.
Unbridled Scientific and Historical Accuracy

The scenarios, events, and choices the player makes are taken directly from the diaries of Antarctic explorers from the turn of the twentieth century.
Further gameplay content has been researched with the help of historians at the Dulwich College Archives.
Further gameplay content has been researched with the help of historians at the Dulwich College Archives.

Travel across a hyper-accurate satellite map of the Antarctic. With the aid of the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) your crew of explorers will travel over game maps that represent actual Antarctic terrain and locations. In game maps are so detailed that one square represents approximately 150 yards.
Scientific and geographic information is included in the game thanks to the consulting efforts of scientists at the Office of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation. Ice conditions and their effect on the continent have been provided with the generous aid of scientists like Stephanie Pfirman at Columbia University.
Scientific and geographic information is included in the game thanks to the consulting efforts of scientists at the Office of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation. Ice conditions and their effect on the continent have been provided with the generous aid of scientists like Stephanie Pfirman at Columbia University.