Welcome to Spaceship 47

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 from the Go First Dice website This post updates the dice portion of Attacks Revisited I came across Go First Dice a while ago and...

I discussed the game’s enemy AI in Putting the AI in Pain. While I haven’t 100% decided on how exactly the AI system will work, I have...

Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay Sorry for the lack of blog posts, but I’ve been ill. I started looking at how the first mission of the...

One thing I wanted to do was keep an air of mystery about certain things in the game. With the entire section of the map laid out at...

Rescuing the Chimpanzee Scientists held hostage by the Draydun Red Shadows. Avoiding the automated defences left on an abandoned planet...

I wrote about the maps in Spaceship 47 in There’s a Map For That. I had a lot of useful feedback about it and I think  I have come up...

Map picture by alex dehnel I am breaking up the procession of profession posts to talk about the maps for Spaceship 47. I have had two...

We interrupt your scheduled Professions post for a quick chat about the player boards and icons. Over the past few weeks I have been...

In Who Do You Think You Are? I expressed reservation about the amount of numbers needed for each character. I talked to my good friend...

In other games I have played that are similar to Spaceship 47, they always include a few predefined character cards that include the...

To take back Earth from the clutches of the evil, gnarled, red-with-puce-veins hands of the Draydun, the crew of Spaceship 47 will have...

While I get stuck into writing the missions, I thought I’d write a few blog posts outlining some of the rules as they are. Today’s topic...

Starting This is the first proper post of the blog and so I thought I would share the background and some of the design goals I have....