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Lol. I think it looks great for a butt chin. Which usually looks like butts. Haha.

I'm hoping that the satire nature of this means it won't incur any copyright concerns. If it does, I'll draw it by hand and I think that's enough? 🤔

Twas a quick morning project that I had been thinking about for a while but never done anything about, so I can do better I just didn't hAve the time. 😅👍

Glad you enjoyed my weird brain stuff!

Ooh, fancy!! Now featured on Man Alone:

I have followed the link, and it is a circle of links with no downloads that I can see for the actual campaign setting. The top of this page just has two links, and the top link has all of the adventures, but clicking on the campaign guide just leads back here.

This page:

Page above leads to this page, and the campaign setting links here just go back to the page above. No campaign guide download, though.

Great ideas, I appreciate your enthusiasm! Yeah, for most of the trifold pamphlets I made last year I had way more ideas than could fit on a single page, but I was using the various game jams as artificial deadlines to actually get something on paper and shipped. I should join one of those jams that let you extend an existing game to force me to work on version 2. 😅👍

Haha. Great point, I'll see about planning a revision to make that change. 👍

Thanks for letting me know it wasn't TOO light for your tastes. I wanted to do more than just a vending machine, so I enjoyed adding a bit of personality to it, as well as some chances to use these abandoned vending machines to get up to no good.

Me too - who doesn't need an afternoon Stimpak pick-me-up or a Pulse Rifle at 2am once all the regular stores are closed? Handy for all those exploring the galaxy. SAM takes just a teensy little bit of the horror out of the sci-fi horror that is Mothership.

Color version of this pamphlet is now available!

Great! Let me know if you think the room weaknesses liven things up, or make it too easy! 🤔

Very clear! The art elevates an already awesome trifold. Excellent graphic design, and an intricate, but wholly understandable, monster-of-the-week!

This is a gorgeous trifold! The layout is very clear, and the art adds to the theme.

Wow, I REALLY appreciate all the time you put into making B&W versions as well as colour AS WELL AS A4+Letter versions. This is truly a finished product!

Love the clean lines on the map! A nice break for the eyes, haha!

I was waiting for baby-faced Cillian Murphy to jump out and save the day the whole time!

The art and clean layout elevates this so much! I love that the spaceship line art in the background is visible, but light enough that it doesn't get in the way of the readability. Well done (pun intended)!

The Spacewalk is brutal and awesome, and the Ship Stress Table is very trope-y in all the best ways!

Great cover art - The Dream looks spooky in pink silhouette! Love the new faction ideas, and the "You're OP and also you're probably dead now" approach to this Darkstar worship! Very cool!

Very nice cover art!

Great way to pack in a ton of information in a trifold! I would love to see a player handout with just the map and no text, just to clarify what the players are looking at.

Thanks!

As per the title, the discord links have expired.

I love the look of this for playing on a screen - any chance you could remove the backgrounds to make a slightly more printer-friendly version?

Thanks for making awesome stuff!

FYI: The OnlyOffice File link is giving me a 404 today.

No rush at all, I love the game as it stands. But also am old school and want a printed copy. 😅

Happy holidays, and best wishes for 2025!

I totally get it - I'm an army of one, myself, and not all of my stuff is as accessible as I'd like yet.

Too many ideas, too little time!!

Thanks for your reply, looking forward to all of your new content in 2025!

Wow, that was so fast!! You're amazing to work on this at such a busy time of year for most people. Thank you for your diligence!! 🙌

I'll check it out from my computer later!

This game is so awesome!! Could you please make a low-ink / printer-friendly version that doesn't have the coloured background?

Hi! This is a super fun idea! Would you be able to create a low-ink / printer-friendly version of the documents? I'm old school, and like to print my games and keep them in a gaming binder. (^_^)

This looks super cool, I can't believe how detailed this book is! Nicely done!

Also, would you be able to remove the page border to make a low-ink / printer friendly version of this? That would be awesome! (^_^)

Does this game require a GM, or is it a solo adventure? How many players do you recommend (if it is not a solo game)?

Also, is it possible to create a low-ink / printer-friendly version of this? I love the art, but my printer can't handle all this colour. (x_x)

I was going to ask this as well - your art is amazing, and you should get a whole artist credit line in the rulebook just for the art!! <3

Love the theme and all the effort you put into making this awesome game!! Would it be possible to make a black-and-white (aka printer friendly / low-ink) version?

This is a beautiful game, and I would like to print it but it will kill my printer with the black pages and white text... Would it be possible for you to make a low-ink / printer friendly version of this? I would really appreciate the effort!

Thanks! It didn't happen, I was having weird Inkscape crashes. I think I'll take this page down for now, and take it as a sign from the universe that this idea needs more soak time. Haha. 😅👍

Awesome, wow! That was a fast turn around on the low ink version request. You rock!!

I love the style of this! Would you be able to make a low-ink version that has black text on a white background to make it cheaper for home printing? Also, what is the font that you used for the title? So cool!

Great concept!
I took rather detailed notes on a successful playthrough (as in, I pushed through to the end):

• 23 rounds before I had 6 cards on all planets.
• The last planet took a long time because I didn't roll a six on it for a while. I would start on that planet, roll through all the cards without getting a 6 to add a new card, and then move on to another planet and unlock cards on planets that were already done.
• In the end I had unlocked 18 new cards on top of the initial 20 (minimum would be 2/planet, so 10). I forgot to note down how many per planet before I reset the game.
• The reliance on chance (only a dice roll) to influence how well you are exploring, and if you can unlock new cards or tokens meant that even on later rounds, I could roll badly and only visit two locations. For example, before I had all plants fully explored on round 20 I explored a location (1 token), rolled a 1 (-2 tokens), explored  a location (1 token), rolled a 2 (-1 token). And that was the whole round. See table, below, for list of explored locations per round. You can see that I had a couple of long runs, but that most were 2 or 3 locations.

Number of explored locations and new cards unlocked:

Thoughts on reducing the grind to the end:

1. To explore a location, you spend a token. Then, if you roll a 6 you gain a card but don't get any new tokens. This means that gaining a card reduces your token count, and that only 2/6 possible die rolls increase your ability to explore. It felt like pretty low odds for a game that focuses on exploration, especially at the end. But, I guess it is a grim "end times" theme so perhaps it fits. Might be nice to gain a token or two when you unlock a card to make it a bit more hopeful, though.
2. Perhaps for every unlocked planet card you get an extra permanent token that doesn't reset at the end of the round? That would mean that the more success you have the longer your runs can be, and the lower the chance of those disappointing 2-explore late game explorations.
3. It felt a bit weird to be adding new cards to so many other planets at the end of the game while I tried to roll a 6 on the last planet that wasn't fully explored to 6 cards. Maybe you could sacrifice a perma token (if that was added) to get a guaranteed new card? Or, some other mechanism to give the player some agency over their ability to move forward.

General thoughts:

1. Nice, compact game! The color cover image uses a ton of ink, whether or not you print in color. Would be nice to have a low-ink, and even a black and white option of the layout.
2. The game is set out as a trifold layout, but it is not possible to print it double-sided such that you can see the Atlas and the d6 table at the same time. Would be nice to be able to do that to not have to keep flipping between the sides to check on location cues vs token usage.
3. Would be cool to somehow incorporate the memories that the player takes with them on the race to the Eye into part of the way the world they envision turns out.
4. The "how you envision the new world" thing kinda comes out of nowhere at the end, and the whole "different than you imagined" implies that it was imagined previously. Might be good to get the player to put down some sort of vision for the future at some point in the game, and then there are consequences for not exploring to gain more tokens at the end because the vision that they have will be lessened if they don't. Something like that to make the choice to explore more of a drive for the player - so that they can build the full world they have set down in their vision.
5. The setup involves giving your character and your ship names and personality. Would be cool to see how the personality could change the gameplay, or if it had an effect on the ending somehow.

The prompts unlock a lot of interesting ideas! I like the way the player returns to familiar areas but discovers new things and different perspectives.

Looks like it only ships to UK or US. Any idea when shipping to Canada will open up?

A nice, tight game loop! Bravo!

Would you be able to create a printer-friendly version that inverts the color scheme? I'm running out of toner... (^_^;)

I'm not seeing anything on the Community profile. I would love to message the devs about the XYZ of QWERTY games, but there is no PM system on here yet AFAIK.

Nope, I haven't seen a response on that.