WELCOME TO 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 p...

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. Th...

Image 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...

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 th...

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 actio...

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 s...

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 progres...

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...

Photo 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 ...

Photo 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...

Photo by Jean Scheijen from FreeImages For Spaceship 47,  there are three levels of stories: Campaign Story Session Story Character Story...

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...

I’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...

I 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...

Obligatory 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 ...

As 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-...