SSO

Kickstater Post-Partum for SSO and Moonflight

I had intended to do a post kickstarter examination of SSO but never got around to it, at least partly due to a feeling that I didn’t rea...

Development and Other Thoughts

When I sat down to write this blog or at least planned to write it it was one thing and has gone through being something else since, so s...

Pulsating Easter Eggs

SSO has a number of semi-hidden references throughout its artwork and flavour text. The whole feel is entrenched in film futurism from th...

Chasing May

Language in games design regularly requires a specificity and accuracy alien to casual speech, made all the more onerous by the necessity...

Alternative Rules: 7+ players and limited vision/motility players for SSO

There are a few alternative ways of playing SSO not outlined in the Main Rules for various reasons, they are listed here. 7+ players: SSO...

Brutal Deluxe

Should we manage to release the various Challenge Decks there are a series of deluxe expansions planned for SSO. Since the ship in SSO is...

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Things Emerging

Emergent narrative is a term for the story telling that occurs outside of what's written specifically into a narrative. For example, in a...

Time to die.

SSO contains player elimination. For those who haven't immediately sworn to never have anything to do with the game on that basis, let me...

Further Challenges

I've been testing and tweaking the base game and first two decks for around 5 or 6 months now, and that was after some pretty carefully c...

Narrative Imperatives

Okey, so, inflexible linear narrative imperative. Thrilling I know. SSO is a narrative game, the intent is to tell the story of your stru...

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