ORBIT 00 — Launch window
ORBYT is a dome gaming club in a retired planetarium. Twelve reclined seats sit in a ring under the curved screen, sound circles the room, and the whole crew plays one thing together — heads back, lights low.
Every night on the dome runs as one shared session. You pick the flavour — a full deep-space co-op, a slow drifting explore, or a loud party on the ceiling — and the room is set up for it before you dock.
The main event. Twelve players, one long mission on the full dome, headsets synced so the crew talks quietly across the circle. We keep the room dark and the volume even so the far seats hear the same cue as the near ones.
A slower drift for six to ten. Calm exploration titles, no clock pressure, blankets allowed. People talk in low voices, pass the controller around the ring, and let the screen wrap overhead while nobody is racing anything.
The loud one. Party games thrown across the whole ceiling, up to twelve people swapping seats and shouting scores by points and finish time. Best booked as a full ring so the whole dome belongs to one group for the night.
The screen is a fourteen-metre half-sphere left over from the building's planetarium years. It curves over you instead of standing in front of you, so the picture reaches the edge of what you can see without turning your head.
Sound runs in a full ring — twelve small speakers set around the rim, tuned so a whisper from a game reaches every seat at the same moment. The chairs lean back on a fixed frame, arranged as one circle so nobody sits behind anybody. You look up, not forward.
Co-op feels different here. When the map is above all twelve of you at once, people point at the same star, call the same turn, and lose track of where the room ends. That is the whole reason we kept the dome.
Short list, kept for the sake of the room. The dome only works when it stays quiet and dark, so a few habits keep every session clean for the whole crew.
A full ring of twelve took on a three-part co-op that ran the whole 150 minutes. The last stretch put the crew on a single slow landing, and the room went completely silent for the final approach. Nobody moved until the screen faded. One of the best endings we have watched from the back.
A Chill orbit for seven that never picked up speed and never needed to. They spent two hours mapping a quiet ocean world, passing the controller around the circle every few minutes, blankets up, voices barely above the sound of the game. Left grinning and slow, like waking from a good nap.
Twelve friends took the whole dome for a Zero-G party. Scores were tracked by points and round time on a board by the door, and the lead changed hands nine times before the last game. Loudest ninety minutes the room has held. The rim speakers earned their tuning that night.
Three fixed points in the room, logged by their seat coordinates. This is what the dome looks like from the floor before a session begins.
Rarely, but it can happen with fast first-person motion filling your whole view. We keep the recline gentle, seat you toward the centre if you ask, and the mid-session break lets you sit up and reset. If a game feels too much, tell a host and we will move you toward the rim where the picture is flatter.
The door closes when a mission starts so nobody walks through a dark room. If you arrive after that, you wait for the "dock" — the planned mid-session break, usually around the 60-minute mark — and slip into your seat then. Message us and we will hold your spot in the ring.
Seats are set in a fixed ring of twelve, and we assign them so the crew sits together rather than scattered. If you have a preference — centre view, aisle end, next to your group — note it when you book and we will do our best. Every seat sees the full dome, so there is no bad chair.
Yes, and on Chill orbit nights plenty of people do. The room sits at a cool 19°C so the screen stays crisp, and the reclined chairs make a blanket welcome. We also keep a small stack of clean throws by the airlock if you would rather travel light.
We hold early weekend slots built for younger crews: shorter 60-minute missions, calmer titles, lights a touch higher, and a grown-up welcome in the ring. The full-dark deep-space nights are aimed at older players, so check the session type when you book a family group.
Pick a date, a session type, and how many seats in the ring you need. We will confirm your slot and hold your chairs. Docking opens fifteen minutes before launch.
