History Videogame / Otherspace

''Otherspace'' began in 1998, pulling influences from a variety of [[StandardSciFiSetting science fiction]], including ''StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat'' series, the ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' books, the ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' Universe books and several others, and was heavily influenced by ''Series/BabylonFive'', adopting their StoryArc system for plotlines. Later influences would include ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', and ''Franchise/MassEffect''.

* FiveRaces: Stout: Demarian, Hekayti, Pyracani, Zangali. Fairy: Riftwalkers. Mundane: Human. High Men: Aukami, Timonae. Cute: Lotorian, Lyiri, Tupai.

* PettingZooPeople: There are several anthropomorphic animal-like races, including the cat-like Demarians and Lyiri, eagle-like Falari, kangaroo-platypus mix Gankri, lizard-like Grimlahdi and Zangali, badger-like Llivori, raccoon-lemur mix Lotorians, dalmatian-spotted panda-like Opodians and fox/wolf-like Pyracani.

''Otherspace'' began in 1998, pulling influences from a variety of [[StandardSciFiSetting science fiction]], including ''StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''TheStainlessSteelRat'' series, the ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' books, the ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' Universe books and several others, and was heavily influenced by ''Series/BabylonFive'', adopting their StoryArc system for plotlines. Later influences would include ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', and ''Franchise/MassEffect''.

''Otherspace'' began in 1998, pulling influences from a variety of [[StandardSciFiSetting science fiction]], including ''StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''TheStainlessSteelRat'' series, the ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' books, the ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' Universe books and several others, and was heavily influenced by ''Series/BabylonFive'', adopting their StoryArc system for plotlines. Later influences would include ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', and ''Franchise/MassEffect''.

Created in 1998, [[http://www.jointhesaga.com Otherspace]] is a [[InteractiveFiction text-based]], original-theme SpaceOpera {{MUSH}} produced by professional journalist and game designer Wes Platt.

Otherspace began in 1998, pulling influences from a variety of [[StandardSciFiSetting science fiction]], including ''StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''TheStainlessSteelRat'' series, the ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' books, the ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' Universe books and several others, and was heavily influenced by ''Series/BabylonFive'', adopting their StoryArc system for plotlines. Later influences would include ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', and ''Franchise/MassEffect''.

* AppliedPhlebotinum: The functionality of faster-than-light drives in OtherSpace falls under this trope, fueled by a volatile substance called polydenum and a generous helping of hand-waving.

* CreatorCameo: The creator of OtherSpace occasionally shows up on the grid as one of his many characters to run events and interact with players.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Characters pulled from the broad expanse of Earth history - Atlantis, the Wild West, the age of pirates on the Seven Seas - are examples of this trope in OtherSpace.

* StoryArc: For its first ten years, Otherspace followed a series of story arcs, turning the universe on its head as it lead characters through each epic plotline.

* ActingForTwo: Players with the right props can include some non-player characters as part of their entourage.

Otherspace began in 1998, pulling influences from a variety of [[StandardSciFiSetting science fiction]], including ''StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''TheStainlessSteelRat'' series, the ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' books, the ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' Universe books and several others, and was heavily influenced by ''Series/BabylonFive'', adopting their StoryArc system for plotlines. Later influences would include ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', and ''MassEffect''.

Otherspace began in 1998, pulling influences from a variety of [[StandardSciFiSetting science fiction]], including ''StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''TheStainlessSteelRat'' series, the ''{{Lensman}}'' books, the ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' Universe books and several others, and was heavily influenced by ''Series/BabylonFive'', adopting their StoryArc system for plotlines. Later influences would include ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', and ''MassEffect''.

Otherspace began in 1998, pulling influences from a variety of [[StandardSciFiSetting science fiction]], including ''StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''TheStainlessSteelRat'' series, the ''{{Lensman}}'' books, the ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' Universe books and several others, and was heavily influenced by ''{{Babylon 5}}'', adopting their StoryArc system for plotlines. Later influences would include ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', and ''MassEffect''.

* {{Abusive Precursors}}: It would take less time to list precursors that weren't abusive, but the now extinct Kamir are the best known abusive precursors.
* {{Acting For Two}}: Players with the right props can include some non-player characters as part of their entourage.

* {{Alt-itis}}: People often make alts to try out different races as well as be a part of different organizations.
* {{Amusing Alien}}: Lotorians, Gankri, and Nemoni - among others - are designed specifically with humorous performances in mind.

* {{AntiMagic}}: Human-derivatives called Laters from the planet La Terre developed abilities that prevent psionics from being used against their person, and sometimes, those immediately surrounding them.
* {{Applied Phlebotinum}}: The functionality of faster-than-light drives in OtherSpace falls under this trope, fueled by a volatile substance called polydenum and a generous helping of hand-waving.

* {{Automated Automobiles}}: Automated ferries and cabs help players move around on some worlds.
* {{Bit Character}}: Some players only have minor roles, but participate when they can.

* {{Cast Full of Writers}}: All players are basically collaborators in writing an evolving work of interactive science fiction.

* {{Chase Scene}}: Some roleplaying events end in pursuit sequences, with players chasing or being chased.
* {{Creator Cameo}}: The creator of OtherSpace occasionally shows up on the grid as one of his many characters to run events and interact with players.
* {{Depending on the Writer}}: With so many people collaborating in the lore of the game, several groups, races, and in a couple cases, even characters, have notably different portrayals depending on who is writing the portrayal.
* {{Dream Sequence}}: Some roleplaying events have taken place within the realm of the dream.
* {{Drives Like Crazy}}: Some characters, such as Buteo Calabratrarios, are a menace to fellow travelers as they navigate their hovercars.

* {{Expansion Pack World}}: The game started with a core of more than a dozen worlds in Normalspace, but has expanded over the years to encompass a multiverse with new alien worlds and parallel versions of the original universe.
* {{Fantastic Racism}}: Ranging from two different ethnic groups distrusting each other to genocide.
* {{Fish Out of Temporal Water}}: Characters pulled from the broad expanse of Earth history - Atlantis, the Wild West, the age of pirates on the Seven Seas - are examples of this trope in OtherSpace.
* {{Fish Out of Water}}: Characters pulled from Normalspace to Hiverspace fall under this trope, exposed to a new and unusual universe.

* {{Functional Magic}}: Psionics serve to explain several magic like phenomena.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces: Over twenty available races.

* {{Mirror Universe}}: The rift situation has made it possible for multiple versions to exist of every character.
* {{Mind Rape}}: Name dropped in universe to reference unwilling interference by a telepath.

* {{Omnidisciplinary Scientist}}: Due to how the skill system works, many science focused characters end up as this.

* {{The World is Always Doomed}}: The multiverse is often under threat from a variety of malicious forces, from psionic tears in the fabric of the multiverse to more mundane threats such as massive military conflicts.
* {{Time Travel}}: Characters pulled through rifts are sometimes victims of time travel, leaving an earlier age in human history to end up in the 27th Century.

* {{Trapped in Another World}}: Many characters who started in Normalspace had to make the journey to Hiverspace, making them refugees in a strange universe.
* {{Vehicular Sabotage}}: In past events, vehicles have been sabotaged so that they were rigged to explode, wreck, or run over innocent bystanders.

Otherspace began in 1998, pulling influences from a variety of [[StandardSciFiSetting science fiction]], including ''StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''TheStainlessSteelRat'' series, the ''{{Lensman}}'' books, the ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' Universe books and several others, and was heavily influenced by ''{{Babylon 5}}'', adopting their StoryArc system for plotlines. Later influences would include ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', ''BattlestarGalactica'', and ''MassEffect''.

Otherspace began in 1998, pulling influences from a variety of [[StandardSciFiSetting science fiction]], including ''StarWars'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''TheStainlessSteelRat'' series, the ''{{Lensman}}'' books, the ''{{Uplift}}'' Universe books and several others, and was heavily influenced by ''{{Babylon 5}}'', adopting their StoryArc system for plotlines. Later influences would include ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', ''BattlestarGalactica'', and ''MassEffect''.

Otherspace began in 1998, pulling influences from a variety of [[StandardSciFiSetting science fiction]], including ''StarWars'', ''StarTrek'', ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', ''BladeRunner'', ''TheStainlessSteelRat'' series, the ''{{Lensman}}'' books, the ''{{Uplift}}'' Universe books and several others, and was heavily influenced by ''{{Babylon 5}}'', adopting their StoryArc system for plotlines. Later influences would include ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', ''BattlestarGalactica'', and ''MassEffect''.