AFTER EARTH

“THOSE SYSTEMS OF EXPLOITATION ARE PROBABLY JUST GOING TO GET MORE FINE-TUNED AND PREVALENT”

Sometimes a name simply drifts through space, awaiting the perfect project to dock with. Blade Runner was originally the title of a little known 1974 sci-fi novel about a black market medical equipment supplier – until Ridley Scott bought the rights, keeping the name and jettisoning everything else.

Similarly, the name ‘Shipbreaker’ pre-exists the game was originally the working title of , the RTS that became Blackbird Interactive’s first release. It was years later that Blackbird would develop a game about shearing huge chunks of metal from the carcasses of starships – but even then, somehow, the team missed the title that was staring them in the face.