And So It Begins...
Spaceship 47 is the board game of the best 90s Sci-Fi TV show that never got made. To this end it is a story driven game allowing the...
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paulbaalham
- May 2
- 5 min
How To Simulate Hacking A Computer?
The resolution mechanism for skill checks (actions) in Spaceship 47 is: The player knows a target number (for example 7). They then...
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paulbaalham
- Apr 3
- 6 min
Whose Turn Is It Anyway?
Like many board games, Spaceship 47 consists of rounds, with the players taking multiple turns during each round. As a co-operative...
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paulbaalham
- Feb 8
- 9 min
Playtest: 6th February 2022
This past Sunday, I finally got to playtest my latest version of Spaceship 47. I played solo, as I wanted to test some things before...
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paulbaalham
- Aug 17, 2021
- 2 min
New Idea (That I Will Probably Not Use)
I've been thinking about whether to reboot Spaceship 47, and even though I am not there yet (I want to actually play test the latest...
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paulbaalham
- Aug 1, 2021
- 2 min
Lacking Motivation
I've been making very little progress on Spaceship 47 for a few months now. Mainly it is because when I get a chance to do anything, I...
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paulbaalham
- May 20, 2021
- 3 min
All About Conditions
I haven't done much work on Spaceship 47 recently as I've dived back into Breath of the Wild after months of ignoring it. However, I...
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paulbaalham
- Apr 22, 2021
- 3 min
How Often Should Player Actions Succeed?
Background One of the criticisms of the last play test was that, for enemies with certain defence scores, the player only had to spend 2...
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paulbaalham
- Apr 2, 2021
- 7 min
Meaningful Decisions
Two bits of feedback I got from the last play test were: 1) a player that can spend 3 ability points can ALWAYS hit an enemy with a...
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paulbaalham
- Mar 27, 2021
- 5 min
System Streamlining
Sorry for talking about enemy AI systems again, but I find writing these blog posts really helps me with design problems. My current...
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paulbaalham
- Mar 15, 2021
- 6 min
Putting the AI in Villain
I have settled on a new way of deciding what actions an enemy takes on its turn and how to resolve them. Originally, what I wanted to do...
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paulbaalham
- Mar 9, 2021
- 9 min
Putting the AI in Impair
First off, sorry for the lame title, but I've already used Putting the AI in Pain and Putting the AI in Maim - there aren't that many...
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paulbaalham
- Feb 27, 2021
- 5 min
Playtest Report (24th February 2021)
Players : Me (Human Officer); @InterregnumThe (Android Engineer); @HarperRob (Chimpanzee Deadeye) and a work colleague of mine (Stishak...
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paulbaalham
- Jan 30, 2021
- 4 min
Books Are So Last Year
Book of Maps One of the reasons that I started designing Spaceship 47, is that I enjoy this sort of game, but I wanted to improve upon...
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paulbaalham
- Jan 16, 2021
- 1 min
The Design Space of Spaceship 47
This will be quite a boring post for you guys as it is intended as a reference for myself while I continue designing Spaceship 47. This...
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paulbaalham
- Oct 29, 2020
- 4 min
Going Round In Circles With A Map
Man, I am having an absolute nightmare designing Spaceship 47 at the moment. It boils down to the use of a book of maps for the game. ...
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paulbaalham
- Oct 4, 2020
- 3 min
Damage Reassessment
Image by Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay In The Damage Is None I had discussed the decision to not have health/hit...
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paulbaalham
- Aug 2, 2020
- 3 min
The Damage Is None
Photo by Gokhan Okur from FreeImages In my last blog post, I talked about the need for scaling the difficulty of individual components of...
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paulbaalham
- Jul 29, 2020
- 5 min
You’ve Got Scale
It occurred to me the other day that I have no way of scaling Spaceship 47 to take into account the number characters being played. So...
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paulbaalham
- Jul 11, 2020
- 5 min
Mission’s Criticals
Image by skeeze from Pixabay If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that one of the things I was keen on was to minimise set-up...
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