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The Starship Titanic was released to mixed reviews and was a financial disappointment, although it was nominated for three industry awards and won a Codie award in 1999. It was published by for the in 1998. A tie-in novel titled Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic: A Novel was written by Jones and released in October 1997.OverviewStarship Titanic is a first-person adventure game designed by , author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and the studio. The game's voice cast includes Monty Python members Terry Jones and John Cleese. Oscar Chichoni and Isabel Molina, artists on the film Restoration (1995), served as the game's production designers and designed the ship's Art Deco visuals.

In the beginning of the game, the player is given a device called Personal Electronic Thing (PET), which serves as a toolbar on the bottom of the screen. The mouse can also be used to pick up and store items in your inventory and interact with onscreen objects. The player moves on the eponymous ship by clicking on locations indicated by the cursor and advancing to the next frame after a blurred transition (although this can be avoided by holding down shift during clicks).

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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. In order to advance within the game, the player must upgrade from the standard third class level to first class and thus gain access to areas that are restricted when the game begins. The main objective of the game is to locate the missing parts of the ship's broken intelligence system in order to repair the starship. Additionally to conversation with characters through interpreting of user input, the parser often provides hints or explanations that come in the form of pre-recorded speech, which can help the player in progressing in the game. Another significant aspect of the game involves talking with characters in the game, namely the bots that work in the ship and a parrot, by inputting prompts in the Chat-O-Mat mode. Much of the gameplay involves solving puzzles by using items with other items or with objects and characters onscreen.

The player begins the journey as a third-class passenger and thus cannot access many areas of the ship that are reserved for higher class passengers until he or she obtains a second-class promotion and eventually convinces Marsinta to upgrade him or her to first class after managing to alter her personality.Through backstory in the ship's email system, the player learns that Brobostigon and Scraliontis, two associates of the ship's creator Leovinus, double crossed him and deliberately provoked a 'Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure' by hiding the body parts of the ship's humanoid intelligence system Titania in various locations within the ship, in an effort to destroy the ship and profit from its insurance. Once the ship is taken back to space, the player meets Marsinta, the 'DeskBot', who makes him or her a third-class reservation, and Krage, a 'BellBot'. Fentible, the 'DoorBot', informs the player that the ship and its crew have malfunctioned and needs help to get them back to normal. Plot Starship Titanic begins in the player character's house on Earth, which is partially destroyed when the eponymous cruise ship crash-lands through the roof. 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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Before making Starship Titanic, Adams had previously served as a designer for Infocom's 1984 text-based game The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which was based on his successful science fiction series of the same name, and had been an advocate for ' new media'. Adams describes the shipвЂ”named after the famous ocean linerвЂ”as a 'majestic and luxurious cruise-liner' that 'did not even manage to complete its very first radio message вЂ“ an SOS вЂ“ before undergoing a sudden and gratuitious total existence failure'. Development Starship Titanic creator Douglas Adams Background Douglas Adams first imagined the Starship Titanic in Life, the Universe and Everything, the third entry in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, where it is briefly mentioned in the book's 10th chapter. The player also meets a parrot that accompanies him or her throughout most of the journey. Throughout the game, the player meets other bots, including Nobby, the 'LiftBot', Fortillian, the 'BarBot' and D'Astragaaar, the 'Maitre d'Bot'. The player then accesses the bridge and navigates the ship back to his or her home in Earth.

Additional dialogue was written by D. Writing The story was created by Adams, who wrote the game's script with Michael Bywater and Neil Richards. Around 40 people worked on the game's development. Development of the game began Summer 1996. In 1996 Simon & Schuster Interactive reached a deal with the company to finance Starship Titanic, whose budget was estimated at $2 million. In December 1995, The Digital Village arranged a deal to raise seed capital from venture capitalist Alex Catto, who bought 10% of the company's shares for ВЈ400,000.

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In order to make conversations with characters convincing, The Digital Village's Jason Williams and Richard Millican created a language processor called SpookiTalk, which was based on VelociText, a software developed by Linda Watson of Virtus Corporation. According to Adams, over 10,000 lines of dialogue were recorded for the game. The text parser includes over 30,000 words and 16 hours of dialogue recorded by voice actors. Adams aimed to develop a text parser-based dialogue system as opposed to the drop-down conversation menus of contemporary adventure games, in which player have limited dialogue options. Adams had devised a story concept to add an additional gameplay element where players would be able to enter the ship's data system as a 'full realtime, flyable environment' and control how information flows through the vessel, but the idea was abandoned because, according to Adams, it was 'a bridge too far'.