Mars has captured the imagination of both scientists and popular culture buffs going back centuries as books, movies and even games have attempted to encapsulate the isolation and vastness of the red planet seen in our imaginations.

Now it’s caught the eye of indie video game developer Tyler Owen, who hopes to take players to a 25-square-mile stretch of the red planet in his in-development game Lacuna Passage. Owen is a longtime space science enthusiast who was inspired to set his latest game on Mars after following the descent of the Mars Curiosity rover to the planet’s surface during the summer of 2012.

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