Welcome to Spaceship 47

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...

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...

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...

Sorry for talking about enemy AI systems again, but I find writing these blog posts really helps me with design problems. My current...

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...

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...

Players : Me (Human Officer); @InterregnumThe (Android Engineer); @HarperRob (Chimpanzee Deadeye) and a work colleague of mine (Stishak...

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...

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...

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. ...

Image by Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay In The Damage Is None I had discussed the decision to not have health/hit...

Photo by Gokhan Okur from FreeImages In my last blog post, I talked about the need for scaling the difficulty of individual components of...

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...

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...

Photo by B S K from FreeImages Introduction Last time, in Vive la Resolution I outlined 6 mechanics I was considering for resolving...

In yesterday’s post (Turns, Turns, Turns (and Rounds)) I discussed the turn structure and how players choose their actions. This post is...

Image by David Zydd from Pixabay Episodes, Rounds and Turns The Spaceship 47 campaign will be split into 10 episodes. Each episode is a...

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay In my previous post I mentioned that I needed to do research. I have been doing this so actual...

Before 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...

This 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...