SSO

Things Learnt From SSO To Moonflight

Hopefully with each Kickstarter, and each game, we’re learning a little something about how to do this right. As such, between our succes...

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...

Picking Challenges

The base set of SSO comes with a Challenge Deck representing the ship's A.I. turning on the crew in the style of HAL in '2001: A Space Od...

Evolution

The single biggest change during playtesting has been the Activation cards. During SSO each player is given a number of movement cards de...

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