How is it? What games are similar? What makes it unique? Is there a print-and-play out there? I love space science and I'm confident that >G can execute, but I just like to try the game out before I buy it. I've broken with that principle several times recently, though, so I'm looking for people to sway me one way or the other.
I backed it, but haven't played it yet. I found Rahdo's videos final thoughts illuminating: the game appears to have a lot more aggressive behaviour than I might have expected from the description.
In case anyone doesn't know, this is why it's being asked...
I haven't been able to figure out why the planet tiles aren't round. The closest I can figure is that since the space tiles are round, they're trying to make the planets visually distinct, but it's not working for me. Planets are round. It is known. Maybe the space tiles should be a different shape instead.
Yeah, sorry, I should’ve put in the Kickstarter or >G news link for a reference.
Man, these guys are crazy to add yet another thing in flight...if I have my count right, including projects from GTG, DHM, Handleabra, and partnerships we've got OblivAeon, Spirit Island, Tactics: Wave 2, Bottom of the 9th Clubhouse, Meta Games: Round 2, Season 2 of the video game, Exoplanets, and probably soon Fate of the Elder Gods* and the Sentinels RPG*. And that's just what we know about!
* - https://greaterthangames.com/content/gen-con-2016-mega-post
EDIT: Realizing the tone sounds critical, that's not my intent; I'm just amazed that they're managing to find time to sleep.
I would be amazed to know we were finding time to sleep, too!
You can put space tiles under the planet tiles, adding an extra effect into that missing space.
The way the planets are laid out, it looks like the non-round part is supposed to be representing the core of the planet.
If anybody gets to see an Exoplanets demo at Origin, I’d love to hear your impressions.
That's my plan on Saturday.
So apparently running the booth off of Foam Brain Games they couldn't keep Exoplanets up as a demo. The reason being is they had a limit on games they could demo each day that weren't actually being sold. So if I had been able to get out Thursday or Friday I may have gotten to it. I got to play Fate of the Elder Gods with Chris Kirkman who got to show off that Dice really do hate him.
So, the update on Kickstarter says that they had a great demo session - I suppose that means until they had to stop. Anybody play it?
I was just taking a look at the rules on the Tabletopia link, and this:
To begin, the player who can name the most of Jupiter’s moon takes the first turn.
...caused me to immediately laugh out loud and start rattling off Galilean moons. Sadly, then my brain went off on a Saturnian moon tangent!