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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Spaceship 47
The board game of the best 90s Sci-f TV show that never got made.
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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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paulbaalham
- Jun 21, 2020
- 4 min
The 7th Way
Photo by B S K from FreeImages Introduction Last time, in Vive la Resolution I outlined 6 mechanics I was considering for resolving...
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paulbaalham
- Jun 5, 2020
- 6 min
Vive la Resolution
In yesterday’s post (Turns, Turns, Turns (and Rounds)) I discussed the turn structure and how players choose their actions. This post is...
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paulbaalham
- Jun 4, 2020
- 3 min
Turns, 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...
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paulbaalham
- May 28, 2019
- 3 min
Dice, dice, baby
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...
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paulbaalham
- May 1, 2019
- 4 min
Putting the AI in Maim
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...
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paulbaalham
- Apr 24, 2019
- 4 min
Meaningful Decisions
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...
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paulbaalham
- Apr 3, 2019
- 1 min
Book of Secrets
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...
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paulbaalham
- Mar 25, 2019
- 4 min
Putting the AI in Pain
Rescuing the Chimpanzee Scientists held hostage by the Draydun Red Shadows. Avoiding the automated defences left on an abandoned planet...
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paulbaalham
- Mar 20, 2019
- 4 min
Map, Crackle and Pop
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...
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paulbaalham
- Feb 25, 2019
- 4 min
There’s a Map For That
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...
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paulbaalham
- Feb 14, 2019
- 2 min
Nice icons, but what do they MEAN?
We interrupt your scheduled Professions post for a quick chat about the player boards and icons. Over the past few weeks I have been...
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paulbaalham
- Jan 24, 2019
- 6 min
Attacks Revisited
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...
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paulbaalham
- Nov 22, 2018
- 3 min
Who Do You Think You Are?
In other games I have played that are similar to Spaceship 47, they always include a few predefined character cards that include the...
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paulbaalham
- Nov 19, 2018
- 6 min
Or I will Attack And You Don’t Want That
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...
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paulbaalham
- Nov 15, 2018
- 4 min
So Whose Turn Is It Anyway?
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...
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paulbaalham
- Nov 4, 2018
- 5 min
Background and Design Goals
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....
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