If I’m totally honest, launching my second wargame in the middle of a global pandemic is a tad daunting. Like many people, my tabletop gaming life for the last 12 months has consisted of two things: (1) playing online using Tabletop Simulator; and (2) playing by myself.
Continue reading “Solo Play Rules”Design Blog
Spaceship Miniatures
If you are looking for some awesome spaceship miniatures to play A Billion Suns with, here’s a list of manufacturers to check out.
Continue reading “Spaceship Miniatures”A Billion Suns: Interstellar Merchants
Become an Interstellar Merchant to sell A Billion Suns tokens, ships, terrain and accessories in your online store.
Continue reading “A Billion Suns: Interstellar Merchants”Gamma Testing – Now Closed
Hello everyone. I have some bad news and I have some good news.
Continue reading “Gamma Testing – Now Closed”Designing for Extensibility
Something that I did unconsciously with Gaslands was designing the game system in a way that gave me a lot of design space to explore beyond the game’s initial scope.
Continue reading “Designing for Extensibility”Are Big Numbers Best?
I don’t like to bash other games, but I recently played a new skirmish game and there was an aspect of it which irked me and I want to examine.
Continue reading “Are Big Numbers Best?”BonesCon Interview
At BonesCon this year, I got a chance to sit down with Glenn Ford, from Man O’ Kent Games and Lee from Bleeped Up Productions to chat about A Billion Suns, Gaslands: Refuelled and Glenn’s game: SSO.
Continue reading “BonesCon Interview”T minus 12 weeks
Red Alert! With Gaslands: Refuelled in the can, I am returning my full attention to A Billion Suns. Here’s the plan… Continue reading “T minus 12 weeks”
Version 37
Okay, I admit it. The versioning system has gone a bit screwy, but I’ve made so many changes in the closed playlets group over the last month I lost track of the numbering. In order to provide a bit more context to the major changes in this release, I’m posting a blog post here. I might take this down after a while, or not… who can say. Continue reading “Version 37”
Back to the Shipyard
Maybe it’s because my car just died and I have to get a new one. Maybe it’s the excitement of it being the end of the year… Time to tear this game to pieces and build it anew!
Continue reading “Back to the Shipyard”