The single biggest change during playtesting has been the Activation cards. During SSO each player is given a number of movement cards...

My natural inclination with games is to see them in a very abstract fashion, which while working on Gaslands with Mike Hutchinson worked...

Playtesting is vital. Its hard to know how much is enough, just like re-writing, but certainly some is vital. As a designer its very easy...

SSO contains player elimination. For those who haven't immediately sworn to never have anything to do with the game on that basis, let me...

I've been testing and tweaking the base game and first two decks for around 5 or 6 months now, and that was after some pretty carefully...

Okey, so, inflexible linear narrative imperative. Thrilling I know. SSO is a narrative game, the intent is to tell the story of your...

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...

Having decided that horror was the puzzle I wanted to answer with this particular game the important question was one of setting. To be...

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...

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...