I’m one of those folks with a bunch of X-Wing minis that never made the transition to second edition, so Junkspace is obviously of interest… but Perilous Tales is where my heart lies. That game brought me much lockdown joy, and I would love to return to it.
X-Wing is one of my favourite games, but when I read AMG's announcement, I wasn't surprised. The combination of the 2020 lockdown, and the transition from FFG to AMG was hard for the game, and it felt like it was on life support for a couple of years now. That being said, the community is already doing community updates, so I expect the game will survive, in the same vain Warmaster and Mordheim has survived. So Junkspace being a replacement for X-Wing in my use case is not going to happen. However, I do like Frostgrave a bunch, and I'm a magpie for interesting systems, AND HotAC (the X-wing Community Co-op campaign mod) was a bit to clunky for my taste, so with those three things in mind, then Junkspace did manage to pique my interest. Also, Space Gits sounds dumb in the exactly correct way, and I want to try it.
Yes, I completely agree that the game is very likely to live on with community support. That’s why I would very definitely aim to provide a very different game experience: not trying to replicate the tense dogfighting and tight list-building, but offering a more game-to-game looting, shooting and scooting campaign-driven thing, letting you tell a slightly different kind of story and build more attachment to custom pilots and dudes you invent. Not better or a replacement, just different but with the same miniatures. :)
new A Billion Suns addon looks cool, might prompt me to finally buy A Billion Suns, I keep meaning to but money and keen haven't lined up right, it would be nice to get the addons in dead tree, maybe bundled together? I'm not sure where's good to buy cool spaceship miniatures these days, any ideas?
If you want modern looking ships, hard to beat the Dropfleet Command stuff IMO. If you prefer a more retro look, Brigade Models is a favourite of mine. If you want to print, search for Sable Badger, he has great designs.
Ground Zero Games, Brigade Models both make superb 'retro' style ships. Well, retro in a sense. For STLs, check out Sable Badger, Irrational Designs/Charles Oines on Gumroad, EC3D, Martian Models has stuff made for ABS & have a new fleet coming soon - very Homeworld style. There's also tons of ships on the various STL vendors. ABS is very much worth the price of admission.
Happy Birthday!!! Productivity King! :-) Some Gaslands players are already playing around with X-wing minis, so Junkspace will be a winner. Personally I'm most excited about Flagstone and Icunabula.
Most interested in order space gitz drunk orcz, junkspace sounds great nice way to use x wing models, and more gas lands is a huge plus. Amazing you can come up with so many unique games, keep up the work
Happy Birthday! Just chiming in that I’m really interested in ABS related items as well as Junk Space. Really all of sounds great, but I already play ABS and have X-Wing minis I’d like to get more use of. Also, I play a lot of solo games, so any refinement or inclusion of solo rules is always appreciated :-)
Junkspace - welp, time to get my Silent Death collectuon out again! Are you going to make the bigger X-Wing ships a thing in Junkspace? Id love to see a corvette/frigate/Destroyer game with fighters, maybe like Cruel Seas in space. Ive got lots of models and bits awaiting building/conversion, but there really isnt a system that does that well that ive found. Theyre either fighter focused, or fleet focused.
I should look at Cruel Seas. My thinking with Junkspace is that it’s a handful of small ships, really a skirmish game in space, but actually having bigger thinks (sort of like war rigs in Gaslands) could be awesome. It won’t be that sort of mid-level game you are thinking of though, I think, but that was always how I was imagining “The Fringe” expansion for ABS being, but I’ve never figured out exactly what I want it to feel like. If Junkspace does the smugglers and pirates and scavenging things, perhaps that lets me focus ABS Fringe more on Cruel Seas in space boarder patrol stuff… Hmmm, interesting.
Flagstone, ABS: Domination & Gaslands XL are three titles I am very excited about. I've just recently got a few folks into Gaslands and its been a blast. ABS I play solo, but I have longed for a really good fleet based space game since the fall of Cadia. Flagstone just sounds beautiful and charming. I do wonder if it'd be better as a boardgame, but then I consider the fact of things like expansions with different units in it and, as you mentioned, genre-bending it into multitudes of different... well... genres I guess... The rest of the titles do sound like good ideas independently, but as I think you touched on, the closer an idea gets to 'Warband Skirmish', the more it has to compete with everyone elses and their mother's warband skirmish game. I think at that stage you'd be hoping for that sweet designer name recognition and "cred" (which, lets admit it, you do have) more than mechanics to suck folks in initiatlly.
Flagstone is sort of a deliberate act of wilful contradiction. It’s not going to be a board game because I want it to be miniatures agnostic. There’s plenty of miniatures agnostic skirmish games, but almost none use a grid, because grids are hard to source unless you include them in a boxset. The chess board solves that.
Feel like chessboard systems work well with very zoomed-out themes. Would love something like a divisional scale WW2 or modern game on a chessboard with a ton of abstraction, for use with 3mm or 6mm models. I realize I'm probably the only person on the planet who does though ...
Totally know what you mean. I have an idea for an asymmetrical Dune II #chess28 thing where one player is the Industry and another The Guerillas. Fog of war and tiny sci-fi models.
Awesome stuff to hear. On some of the stuff you mentioned I'd deffo prefer properly laid out physical books than print-on-demand / pdf. I guess the thing with kickstarter is that if used as originally intended you don't have to do some big campaign you just get people locking in there commitment so you know something is worthwhile. You see people making fairly low effort staple bound zines for Mork Borg and releasing via Kickstarter all the time. Just my two cents - but great to see you thriving working full time on this whichever way you decide to go.
I’m the same, in wanting the games I play to be properly produced rulebooks. It’s going to be interesting to see if I can repeat the 1000+ backers we got on Hobgoblin with other games. If I can get close to that, professionally printed books is a no-brainer.
I am really excited for junkspace and gaslands xl. my hobby career literally started with gaslands, and now that I have people actually willing to play these things with me I'm very very on board to play even more things :3
Junk space has really caught my attention! Not interested in using x-wing minis, but scratch building would be fun or scaling the game up in scale and using ships I collected from the Lightyear movie.
Happy belated birthday! I just joined your patreon - when we can see you working this hard to produce so much for us to enjoy, the least we can do is consider buying you the equivalent of a cup of coffee every month. Really excited for some of this stuff!
Ouch, that’s tough. The good news is that the X-Wing game is super fun and won’t every not be, but hopefully Junkspace will find an audience and get people to get their toys out.
Happy Birthday! As someone with a RT/2nd Ed Space Ork collection who will probably never actually play those older versions of 40k the Space Gits game sounds super interesting.
Tell me (based on the little you have gleaned so far) what you hope will be true about it. It’s at the stage right now where your wish is (to a degree) my command!
@@planetsmashergames I really like the basic idea of for movement and shooting rolling dice and using the location of the dice. The dice tower to represent damage/drunkeness is also fun. I hope that the environment will play a roll. Things like exploding barrels, oil slicks and other nonsense (the goofier the better). That can be hard to pull off while keeping the game super simple though. I also love gretchin, snotlings and squigs and hope they find there way in since there are so many fun old models. The rock, paper, scissors mechanic sounds fun and fits the type of game well. For some reason I lost the ability to get the timing right as I've gotten older. (I know that sounds weird, I don't know why I just always seem half a step off no matter what I do.) I don't think you should change it just based on one weirdo's very specific problem though. This seems like it will be a great drinking game, although I don't necessarily think that's a good thing to incorporate into the official rules. Maybe better to let people come up with that on their own.
I love you, that is all really helpful insight into what folks my look for and hope for. The drinking game thing is funny, I drop a tiny nod to it in the turn structure section: “You activate an orc then I activate an orc. After you activate your orc, it takes a swig (and if using the advanced rules: so do you). The more it has activated, the more likely it is to fall over drunk while moving.”
I totally get why people love it, and partly because it leans into itself, it’s a game that knows what experience it wants to deliver. I respect that, even while it’s not for me.
Wow. That is a spread of games, any one of which could eat a lot of my gaming time, money, and attention. Junkspace got me to share out the video for all the lapsed X-wing players, like me. Looking forward to your take on skirmish with Incunabila. And hope you had a great birthday, way to continue the streak.
Awesome! Thanks a TON for sharing and get the word out. I’ll shoot a dev/demo game real soon to start showing off where the game is at so people can see what I’ve got cooking.
Happy birthday Mike! Wow, you are a fountain of compelling game ideas! I hope you will reconsider manufacturing your games in China though. Your idea of offering high quality, bespoke boxed games sounds smart, but Chinese manufacturing severely undercuts that. There are already far more flashy Kickstarter and Asmodee products made in ethically dubious places than the world needs. Embrace the indie/punk spirit and find some like-minded partners to make the products your designs deserve. I know it's a harder road, but people like you are the only ones that are going to make a difference. Good luck! Looking forward to seeing where you go with all of your ideas.
Thanks for saying that! I will definitely keep talking to people. Print on demand hubs are increasingly a possibility, and could be much better (less shipping air around the planet, cheaper local shipping costs for you, less upfront production and zero warehousing costs to me). I need to get something made like that to see if the quality is “good enough”.
@@planetsmashergames Thanks Mike, hope you'll share some of your findings on the channel. 👍 I agree about PoD print quality. DTRPG is certainly "good enough", but not as nice as pro-printed. I've got lots of nice small press RPG books though, often printed in Europe. FWIW the Earthborne Games Podcast has some good discussions about sustainability considerations for manufacturing (board) games. They did a very deep dive into all of this a few years back. I got some (recycled metal) minis with their KS game, and they're pretty good! I also wonder if some small-scale manufacturing options like laser-cutting and computer controlled plotters/cutters might work for someone tech and craft savvy like yourself. I think @roguehobbies designed and made her own packaging for her goblin minis.
Happy Birthday! Gaslands XL sounds great! Is the 3rd version of the game you mentioned still in the works or is this XL expansion going to be the 3rd version please? I'm so excited and can't wait for them!
Very excited about Incanabula, I’ve been trying to work something out that would let me do action like in a Bayonetta style combos for ages. More specifically Dynasty Warriors or Devil May Cry.
@@planetsmashergames sorry to add to the workload (Slash not sorry as I do enjoy the output so!) Been working on my own solo map campaign as a way of tying together all the one-off ABS and Stargrave games I play. Almost ready to ask the good folks on RoC discord to tear it apart 😂
GL:XL and ABS: Dominion is the games that sound most interesting to me. And your maybe unknown to yourself historical naval game that you need to make ;)
@planetsmashergames its a age of sail game! With a lot of movement ideas from gaslands and such but the emphasis on broadsides make for a very different game!
@@planetsmashergames 3d models. I usually post as Sablebadger. I've made tons of models for your games over the years. Your games are fertile ground for creating cool stuff.
It’s an idea that has always been good, but never felt more timely. I have a sort of Infinite Space inspired load-out and upgrade system cooking up for it.
Happy birthday Mike! I downloaded Perilous Tales a while back but never actually got around to reading it. I need to rectify that. Otherwise of all these projects I think Junkspace sounds the most interesting. Looking forward to seeing more about that.
Happy birthday and awesome progress!! Love seeing how many projects you have on the go. I've got one game in active development and another on the back burner and that seems enough for me 😅
Thanks my dude! I am excited and energised by all the things you are doing. I only wish I could get my hands on them in the UK. I think once Pit Lord restocks I’ll bite the bullet and pay the shipping to feel like I’ve split it across two games.
@@planetsmashergames Big love my man! This channel rocks. I would love for you to play those games and tell me if they are good. Like yourself I've got so many ideas, I am inspired to share.
The best gift I got for my birthday was a small book called “the future of songwriting”. It’s not about songwriting but about artistic work and worth. I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone, but I suspect you’d dig it.
I actually played it coop for the first time ever last month and was shocked how fun it was. Sadly the video failed, else I would have published the game here on the channel.
Happy birthday Mike, thanks for putting your ideas out there and sharing your enthusiasm with us, and thank you for aiming for innovation and pushing the genre/hobby in new directions!
Everything starts in my physical notebook As it coalesces, I move my notes into Notion. Once I want to get something playable on the table, I write my draft rulebooks in Google Docs. With nice formatting and printed with the “booklet mode” most printers offer, a Google Document can be an excellent looking zine/alpha rulebook. Everything I showed here was a printed Google Doc.
@@planetsmashergames Thanks! Did you get it printed at a staples or something or on a home printer. lol I always have trouble with getting it to do pamphlette mode.
I invest in a decent laser printer at home as I print things all the time as part of my prototyping process. I have a HP Colour Laser Jet Pro something something. Big boxy thing with a scanner and does duplex.
I am super stoked to dust off my Xwing models. Also getting to play with my choice of the 200 or so Gaslands cars I have!!! Gaslands is my favorite . Thanks. I think we feel it may be our birthday too.
I’m one of those folks with a bunch of X-Wing minis that never made the transition to second edition, so Junkspace is obviously of interest… but Perilous Tales is where my heart lies. That game brought me much lockdown joy, and I would love to return to it.
Awesome to hear.
I'd love to try Space Gits, that looks fun as hell !
X-Wing is one of my favourite games, but when I read AMG's announcement, I wasn't surprised. The combination of the 2020 lockdown, and the transition from FFG to AMG was hard for the game, and it felt like it was on life support for a couple of years now. That being said, the community is already doing community updates, so I expect the game will survive, in the same vain Warmaster and Mordheim has survived. So Junkspace being a replacement for X-Wing in my use case is not going to happen. However, I do like Frostgrave a bunch, and I'm a magpie for interesting systems, AND HotAC (the X-wing Community Co-op campaign mod) was a bit to clunky for my taste, so with those three things in mind, then Junkspace did manage to pique my interest. Also, Space Gits sounds dumb in the exactly correct way, and I want to try it.
Yes, I completely agree that the game is very likely to live on with community support. That’s why I would very definitely aim to provide a very different game experience: not trying to replicate the tense dogfighting and tight list-building, but offering a more game-to-game looting, shooting and scooting campaign-driven thing, letting you tell a slightly different kind of story and build more attachment to custom pilots and dudes you invent. Not better or a replacement, just different but with the same miniatures. :)
I am excited about: Gaslands XL, Junkspace, ABS Domination
new A Billion Suns addon looks cool, might prompt me to finally buy A Billion Suns, I keep meaning to but money and keen haven't lined up right, it would be nice to get the addons in dead tree, maybe bundled together?
I'm not sure where's good to buy cool spaceship miniatures these days, any ideas?
If you want modern looking ships, hard to beat the Dropfleet Command stuff IMO. If you prefer a more retro look, Brigade Models is a favourite of mine. If you want to print, search for Sable Badger, he has great designs.
Ground Zero Games, Brigade Models both make superb 'retro' style ships. Well, retro in a sense. For STLs, check out Sable Badger, Irrational Designs/Charles Oines on Gumroad, EC3D, Martian Models has stuff made for ABS & have a new fleet coming soon - very Homeworld style. There's also tons of ships on the various STL vendors. ABS is very much worth the price of admission.
Happy Birthday!!! Productivity King! :-)
Some Gaslands players are already playing around with X-wing minis, so Junkspace will be a winner. Personally I'm most excited about Flagstone and Icunabula.
I’m intrigued by most all of your projects, but Rotvarlden and Junkspace are definitely the big ones for me!
Happy Birthday! Junkspace very much has my attention. Can't wait!
Most interested in order space gitz drunk orcz, junkspace sounds great nice way to use x wing models, and more gas lands is a huge plus. Amazing you can come up with so many unique games, keep up the work
Drunk orcs! Literally NEED to play this in whatever form it takes! 🤣🤣
Wow Space Gits sounds amazingly fun. I can't wait to try it out.
It’s certainly going to be unique !
Box for Perilous Tales! Exactly what it needs!
Junkspace and GL:XL!!
Super excited for those two
Love the stacked dice mechanic for the drunkards!
Excellent. Your vote has been registered! :)
Happy Birthday! Just chiming in that I’m really interested in ABS related items as well as Junk Space. Really all of sounds great, but I already play ABS and have X-Wing minis I’d like to get more use of. Also, I play a lot of solo games, so any refinement or inclusion of solo rules is always appreciated :-)
Awesome to hear. Second vote for solo spaceship gaming, so I’ll add that to the short list for sure.
Junkspace - welp, time to get my Silent Death collectuon out again!
Are you going to make the bigger X-Wing ships a thing in Junkspace? Id love to see a corvette/frigate/Destroyer game with fighters, maybe like Cruel Seas in space. Ive got lots of models and bits awaiting building/conversion, but there really isnt a system that does that well that ive found. Theyre either fighter focused, or fleet focused.
I should look at Cruel Seas. My thinking with Junkspace is that it’s a handful of small ships, really a skirmish game in space, but actually having bigger thinks (sort of like war rigs in Gaslands) could be awesome.
It won’t be that sort of mid-level game you are thinking of though, I think, but that was always how I was imagining “The Fringe” expansion for ABS being, but I’ve never figured out exactly what I want it to feel like. If Junkspace does the smugglers and pirates and scavenging things, perhaps that lets me focus ABS Fringe more on Cruel Seas in space boarder patrol stuff… Hmmm, interesting.
Flagstone, ABS: Domination & Gaslands XL are three titles I am very excited about. I've just recently got a few folks into Gaslands and its been a blast. ABS I play solo, but I have longed for a really good fleet based space game since the fall of Cadia. Flagstone just sounds beautiful and charming. I do wonder if it'd be better as a boardgame, but then I consider the fact of things like expansions with different units in it and, as you mentioned, genre-bending it into multitudes of different... well... genres I guess...
The rest of the titles do sound like good ideas independently, but as I think you touched on, the closer an idea gets to 'Warband Skirmish', the more it has to compete with everyone elses and their mother's warband skirmish game. I think at that stage you'd be hoping for that sweet designer name recognition and "cred" (which, lets admit it, you do have) more than mechanics to suck folks in initiatlly.
Flagstone is sort of a deliberate act of wilful contradiction. It’s not going to be a board game because I want it to be miniatures agnostic. There’s plenty of miniatures agnostic skirmish games, but almost none use a grid, because grids are hard to source unless you include them in a boxset. The chess board solves that.
Feel like chessboard systems work well with very zoomed-out themes. Would love something like a divisional scale WW2 or modern game on a chessboard with a ton of abstraction, for use with 3mm or 6mm models. I realize I'm probably the only person on the planet who does though ...
Totally know what you mean. I have an idea for an asymmetrical Dune II #chess28 thing where one player is the Industry and another The Guerillas. Fog of war and tiny sci-fi models.
Awesome stuff to hear. On some of the stuff you mentioned I'd deffo prefer properly laid out physical books than print-on-demand / pdf. I guess the thing with kickstarter is that if used as originally intended you don't have to do some big campaign you just get people locking in there commitment so you know something is worthwhile. You see people making fairly low effort staple bound zines for Mork Borg and releasing via Kickstarter all the time. Just my two cents - but great to see you thriving working full time on this whichever way you decide to go.
I’m the same, in wanting the games I play to be properly produced rulebooks. It’s going to be interesting to see if I can repeat the 1000+ backers we got on Hobgoblin with other games. If I can get close to that, professionally printed books is a no-brainer.
I am really excited for junkspace and gaslands xl. my hobby career literally started with gaslands, and now that I have people actually willing to play these things with me I'm very very on board to play even more things :3
Awesome! I’m really happy to hear that.
Junk space has really caught my attention! Not interested in using x-wing minis, but scratch building would be fun or scaling the game up in scale and using ships I collected from the Lightyear movie.
Interesting. Good to know. I think scratch-building ships could be super fun.
Happy belated birthday! I just joined your patreon - when we can see you working this hard to produce so much for us to enjoy, the least we can do is consider buying you the equivalent of a cup of coffee every month.
Really excited for some of this stuff!
That immediately shoots you way up my “list of rad dudes”, thank you! Hopeful to get one of these things to Itch next week I think.
Really looking forward too Junkspace and Gaslands XL
Nice. XL is close, need to just lay it out. :)
I just got into X-Wing a week before the game was 'cancelled' so I'm definitely interested in Junkspace.
Ouch, that’s tough. The good news is that the X-Wing game is super fun and won’t every not be, but hopefully Junkspace will find an audience and get people to get their toys out.
Still looking forward to the Netrunner Chess 28 game!
Me too! If you write it first I won’t be mad. 😁
Dogfight space game sounds amazing... I was too late to get into xwing, and I would love to have an excuse to buy tie fighters
Pew! Pew! Pew!
Happy Birthday!
As someone with a RT/2nd Ed Space Ork collection who will probably never actually play those older versions of 40k the Space Gits game sounds super interesting.
Tell me (based on the little you have gleaned so far) what you hope will be true about it. It’s at the stage right now where your wish is (to a degree) my command!
@@planetsmashergames I really like the basic idea of for movement and shooting rolling dice and using the location of the dice. The dice tower to represent damage/drunkeness is also fun.
I hope that the environment will play a roll. Things like exploding barrels, oil slicks and other nonsense (the goofier the better). That can be hard to pull off while keeping the game super simple though.
I also love gretchin, snotlings and squigs and hope they find there way in since there are so many fun old models.
The rock, paper, scissors mechanic sounds fun and fits the type of game well. For some reason I lost the ability to get the timing right as I've gotten older. (I know that sounds weird, I don't know why I just always seem half a step off no matter what I do.) I don't think you should change it just based on one weirdo's very specific problem though.
This seems like it will be a great drinking game, although I don't necessarily think that's a good thing to incorporate into the official rules. Maybe better to let people come up with that on their own.
I love you, that is all really helpful insight into what folks my look for and hope for.
The drinking game thing is funny, I drop a tiny nod to it in the turn structure section:
“You activate an orc then I activate an orc. After you activate your orc, it takes a swig (and if using the advanced rules: so do you). The more it has activated, the more likely it is to fall over drunk while moving.”
@@planetsmashergames Awesome, drinking in a game with dexterity mechanics sounds like it will be a blast!
Happy birthday Mike 🎉🎉🎉
Gaslands XL and Junkspace are at the top of my list, but looking forward to them all!
Nice. Votes recorded!!
21:01 I loved Star Wars Armada!
But your criticisms are valid...
I totally get why people love it, and partly because it leans into itself, it’s a game that knows what experience it wants to deliver. I respect that, even while it’s not for me.
that sounds very very lovely, I am so hyped about your next games 💥💥💥
Thanks Till! ;)
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Wow. That is a spread of games, any one of which could eat a lot of my gaming time, money, and attention.
Junkspace got me to share out the video for all the lapsed X-wing players, like me.
Looking forward to your take on skirmish with Incunabila.
And hope you had a great birthday, way to continue the streak.
Awesome! Thanks a TON for sharing and get the word out.
I’ll shoot a dev/demo game real soon to start showing off where the game is at so people can see what I’ve got cooking.
Star Wars Armada ABS??? Please take my money!!!
Before I do, tell me: what do you hope for it to be/do? I’m very curious (and very much in the place where your wish can be my command).
Happy birthday Mike! Wow, you are a fountain of compelling game ideas! I hope you will reconsider manufacturing your games in China though.
Your idea of offering high quality, bespoke boxed games sounds smart, but Chinese manufacturing severely undercuts that. There are already far more flashy Kickstarter and Asmodee products made in ethically dubious places than the world needs. Embrace the indie/punk spirit and find some like-minded partners to make the products your designs deserve. I know it's a harder road, but people like you are the only ones that are going to make a difference.
Good luck! Looking forward to seeing where you go with all of your ideas.
Thanks for saying that! I will definitely keep talking to people. Print on demand hubs are increasingly a possibility, and could be much better (less shipping air around the planet, cheaper local shipping costs for you, less upfront production and zero warehousing costs to me). I need to get something made like that to see if the quality is “good enough”.
@@planetsmashergames Thanks Mike, hope you'll share some of your findings on the channel. 👍
I agree about PoD print quality. DTRPG is certainly "good enough", but not as nice as pro-printed. I've got lots of nice small press RPG books though, often printed in Europe.
FWIW the Earthborne Games Podcast has some good discussions about sustainability considerations for manufacturing (board) games. They did a very deep dive into all of this a few years back. I got some (recycled metal) minis with their KS game, and they're pretty good!
I also wonder if some small-scale manufacturing options like laser-cutting and computer controlled plotters/cutters might work for someone tech and craft savvy like yourself. I think @roguehobbies designed and made her own packaging for her goblin minis.
Happy Birthday!
Gaslands XL sounds great! Is the 3rd version of the game you mentioned still in the works or is this XL expansion going to be the 3rd version please? I'm so excited and can't wait for them!
XL is an expansion for Gaslands Refuelled. Currently can’t confirm anything else, other than discussions are ongoing.
@@planetsmashergames thank you for your response. I look forward to trying XL. Hope you had a great birthday 🙂👍
Very excited about Incanabula, I’ve been trying to work something out that would let me do action like in a Bayonetta style combos for ages. More specifically Dynasty Warriors or Devil May Cry.
I’d love to see that. My Bayonetta reference here is actually about the environments and “world” rather than the mechanics.
@@planetsmashergames
Still cool
Looking forward to ABS domination! Heard a Rule of carnage where you mentioned a possible map campaign in the works… would this be that?
It is not! But that still exists and bloody hell I’d forgotten all about that and now I have to add it to the list!!!
@@planetsmashergames sorry to add to the workload (Slash not sorry as I do enjoy the output so!)
Been working on my own solo map campaign as a way of tying together all the one-off ABS and Stargrave games I play. Almost ready to ask the good folks on RoC discord to tear it apart 😂
GL:XL and ABS: Dominion is the games that sound most interesting to me. And your maybe unknown to yourself historical naval game that you need to make ;)
Oooh, tell me more! Is it an Age Of Sail thing? Or WWI?
@planetsmashergames its a age of sail game! With a lot of movement ideas from gaslands and such but the emphasis on broadsides make for a very different game!
I would love solo support for Junkspace
Noted. That is an excellent point.
which one should I play
What a question! Today, I would recommend Rotvärlden, it’s super fun and mostly complete.
I'm gonna make so many models for Junkspace.
Noice. Where is your head going in terms of hobby? I really want to know. Hacking up other models? Scratch builds? 3D printing?
@@planetsmashergames 3d models. I usually post as Sablebadger. I've made tons of models for your games over the years. Your games are fertile ground for creating cool stuff.
Oh hai. I just recommended you to someone a few comments down!
Actually. We should talk. I (obviously) don’t want to put literally X-Wings in the Junkspace book, so… yeah. We should talk.
@@planetsmashergames sounds good. I was going to reach out anyway. :)
happy birthday. love some of this. Also love GL-XL and space junk, I will get out my armada and x-wing stuff. Nice.
Junk Space will fly.
It’s an idea that has always been good, but never felt more timely. I have a sort of Infinite Space inspired load-out and upgrade system cooking up for it.
Happy birthday Mike! I downloaded Perilous Tales a while back but never actually got around to reading it. I need to rectify that. Otherwise of all these projects I think Junkspace sounds the most interesting. Looking forward to seeing more about that.
Happy birthday, and I cant wait for Domination! Id still love to see what you come up with for Fringe, but this does sound very cool.
Happy birthday and awesome progress!! Love seeing how many projects you have on the go. I've got one game in active development and another on the back burner and that seems enough for me 😅
Gaslands XL sounds soooo cool. Ive been thinking about what it would be like to have a mass battle Gaslands with cars moving in formation
Do you have a discord for game design?
Yes! The Rule of Carnage discord is here: discord.gg/Gb4aK7uECh
Yes! Search for “Rule of Carnage discord” and you’ll find the invite link on my website.
Merry Womb Emergence Anniversary!!!!
Excited for Perilous Tales!
Happy Birthday!!! Keep up the great work!
You're an inspiration, I appreciate you
Thanks my dude! I am excited and energised by all the things you are doing. I only wish I could get my hands on them in the UK. I think once Pit Lord restocks I’ll bite the bullet and pay the shipping to feel like I’ve split it across two games.
@@planetsmashergames Big love my man! This channel rocks. I would love for you to play those games and tell me if they are good. Like yourself I've got so many ideas, I am inspired to share.
The best gift I got for my birthday was a small book called “the future of songwriting”. It’s not about songwriting but about artistic work and worth. I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone, but I suspect you’d dig it.
@@planetsmashergames I'm looking it up now!
Well you have me excited about The Incunabula
The Incunabula sounds really intriguing! Casually dropping "Doctor Who" in there piqued my interest.
I’m going for a “desperate adventure through a collapsing megaverse” type setup for the game.
Great bunch of games cooking away there. Definitely looking forward to Perilous Tales, though more as a co-op game than solo.
I actually played it coop for the first time ever last month and was shocked how fun it was. Sadly the video failed, else I would have published the game here on the channel.
Happy birthday Mike, thanks for putting your ideas out there and sharing your enthusiasm with us, and thank you for aiming for innovation and pushing the genre/hobby in new directions!
Thanks dude! I appreciate those words.
What software do you use for game design?
Everything starts in my physical notebook As it coalesces, I move my notes into Notion. Once I want to get something playable on the table, I write my draft rulebooks in Google Docs. With nice formatting and printed with the “booklet mode” most printers offer, a Google Document can be an excellent looking zine/alpha rulebook.
Everything I showed here was a printed Google Doc.
@@planetsmashergames Thanks! Did you get it printed at a staples or something or on a home printer. lol I always have trouble with getting it to do pamphlette mode.
I invest in a decent laser printer at home as I print things all the time as part of my prototyping process.
I have a HP Colour Laser Jet Pro something something. Big boxy thing with a scanner and does duplex.
@@planetsmashergames Sweet! Thanks!
I am super stoked to dust off my Xwing models. Also getting to play with my choice of the 200 or so Gaslands cars I have!!! Gaslands is my favorite . Thanks. I think we feel it may be our birthday too.
Haha! Awesome
@@planetsmashergames so excited to expand ABS also! SPACE QUACKEN ATTACK!
Happy Birthday!!!!