science fiction
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Medical Bay Twitch
Otherdoc ran Medical Bay Three on their Twitch channel, and you can watch it here.
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Falling Forever Into Oblivion
You were a pair of interstellar explorers. You traveled the galaxy together, and you cared about each other deeply. While studying a black hole, you separated in two small scout vessels to examine the black hole’s accretion disk. Somehow, one of the ships was knocked out of its controlled orbit. The ship, and the explorer…
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Road to Nowhere
Road to Nowhere is an interdimensional road trip hack I made out of the brilliant game Archipelago by Matthijs Holter.
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[Actual Play] Longshot
The Liberation Industries podcast did a series of Actual Play recordings of Longshot, my 2010 Game Chef entry. The game seems to still hold up pretty well, and I enjoyed hearing how their game went. You can hear the recordings here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
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[Actual Play] So Now You’re a Time Traveler
The Party of One podcast played So No You’re a Time Traveler, my two page time travel game.
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Al Amarja Today!
I wanted to GM a short campaign of Over the Edge, the classic rpg of surreal conspiracies. The biggest problem with the game, I figured, was that there was no clear core activity for the PCs to pursue as a group. So I decided to frame the game with the PCs as journalists, working for…
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A Shadow Among Shadows
Here’s a game I made over the summer, inspired by but not entered into Game Chef, but I never got around to posting it here. It’s a mashup or Archipelago and some boardgame mechanics, where you explore an abandoned space ship. A Shadow Among Shadows
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Interstellar Diplomacy
Interstellar Diplomacy is a freeform-ish game I wrote as an entrant into the Golden Cobra Challenge. You play alien diplomats, meeting on earth to decide whether or not war will destroy the galaxy.
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Game Chef ingredients are up, and I’ve been thinking about them for a while. ( http://game-chef.com/ ) I had an idea for a game about druids writing a reality-altering book, but I’m not really very enthused by it. I may return to it later, but right now my brain is more interested in this potential…
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Medical Bay Three
“Four years of pre-med, four years of medical school, one year of residency, years of professional experience back on Earth and all the memory downloads about extraterrestrial culture have all taught you this: you don’t know anything about what you’re doing. Not here, anyway. On the Sphere, everything is weird and different. The Sphere is…