paulbaalhamOct 29, 20204 minGoing Round In Circles With A MapMan, 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. Th...
paulbaalhamOct 4, 20203 minDamage ReassessmentImage by Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay In The Damage Is None I had discussed the decision to not have health/hit points/vigo...
paulbaalhamAug 2, 20203 minThe Damage Is NonePhoto by Gokhan Okur from FreeImages In my last blog post, I talked about the need for scaling the difficulty of individual components of...
paulbaalhamJul 29, 20205 minYou’ve Got ScaleIt 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 th...
paulbaalhamJul 11, 20205 minMission’s CriticalsImage 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 ...
paulbaalhamJun 21, 20204 minThe 7th WayPhoto by B S K from FreeImages Introduction Last time, in Vive la Resolution I outlined 6 mechanics I was considering for resolving actio...
paulbaalhamJun 5, 20206 minVive la ResolutionIn yesterday’s post (Turns, Turns, Turns (and Rounds)) I discussed the turn structure and how players choose their actions. This post is ...
paulbaalhamJun 4, 20203 minTurns, Turns, Turns (and Rounds)Image by David Zydd from Pixabay Episodes, Rounds and Turns The Spaceship 47 campaign will be split into 10 episodes. Each episode is a s...
paulbaalhamMay 31, 20201 minDoing NothingImage by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay In my previous post I mentioned that I needed to do research. I have been doing this so actual progres...
paulbaalhamMay 25, 20201 minResearchBefore I get stuck into the design of the game, I need to do some more research. There are various Board Games and RPGs that I’ve decided...
paulbaalhamMay 9, 20203 minCharacter StoriesThis post was edited to include option 5. One of the things I want to include in Spaceship 47 is that over the course of the campaign the...
paulbaalhamMay 1, 20203 minEpisodesPhoto by Diego Vaisberg from FreeImages I think of this board game as the first season of a TV show. Each session the players play is an ...
paulbaalhamApr 26, 20201 minSize MattersPhoto by sanja gjenero from FreeImages As I am concentrating on my book, I haven’t really thought about this game this past week. Apart f...
paulbaalhamApr 19, 20202 minThree Levels of StoriesPhoto by Jean Scheijen from FreeImages For Spaceship 47, there are three levels of stories: Campaign Story Session Story Character Story...
paulbaalhamApr 12, 20202 minStar Trek or Star Wars?Photo by aksoy I’m a big ol’ geek. One of my many nerdy interests is Science Fiction. My two favourite Science Fiction things are Star Tr...
paulbaalhamApr 5, 20203 minDice Systems Are GoI’m pretty sure that after I’ve written my book. I will resume creating this board game. One of the main reasons I paused on it is becau...
paulbaalhamMar 29, 20202 minDecisions, DecisionsI have this domain until November, so I might as well use it. At the moment I am not focusing on Spaceship 47 at all. My main focus is th...
paulbaalhamJan 1, 20201 minLooking ForwardObligatory it’s-a-new-year-therefore-I-must-write-about-the-forthcoming-year post. In 2020, the main thing I want to do is finish off my ...
paulbaalhamDec 24, 20192 minAn End of Year UpdateAs it is Christmas I have had a lot of Annual Leave so I have had time to work through my to-do list. Writing a blog post is the next to-...
paulbaalhamNov 6, 20191 minAn Unexpected UpdateImage by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Book So I’ve been pretty quiet lately as work on the Spaceship 47 board game has paused as...