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Manifest Crew
The S.S.O. comes with a wide range of crew, 12 in the base set actually, 4 command crew, 8 general crew. They've all been repeatedly...
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The horror, the horror.
Having decided that horror was the puzzle I wanted to answer with this particular game the important question was one of setting. To be...
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Thematic Decisions
I've been writing games in one form or another for most of my life but it wasn't until recently, working on games design with Mike...
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Number Balance
Crew numbers has been the most important balancing act in the whole game. SSO is largely based on base 6, the challenge deck is 24 cards...
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Resource Managment
Something that will almost certainly come up at various points, not least during reviews and Kickstarter, will be my decision to make the...
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Spaces in Space
So the ship has various locations, one of which, in the vein of sci-fi films everywhere is a Cryogenics pod. Originally, in the game the...
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The Genesis Project
The original genesis of the SSO mechanics comes from a moment in the Danny Boyle film Sunshine, which I'm about to spoiler in explaining...
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SSO A New Frontier in Fear!
SSO is a cards and counters boardgame. It has elements of worker placement Euro games as players move their crew around the ship to...
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