Setup is not the slickest. Unless we use discs.
The hockey bench plan for Possession didn't work. Don't be surprised to see Possession demoted, moved to the library. The brand spanking new Space is rising fast. Atlantis Chess needs to
be polished and presentable.
A page for this game is being developed. Also pondering painting discs, with a dot for runners.
Space
Space is a light, brief, blockade game where the last player who can move a runner wins.
There are ten blue pawns, ten yellow pawns and one green neutral pawn. Two blue runners and two yellow runners. The board is a 5 x 5 grid. Put all the pieces on the board in random positions. Blue removes one blue pawn and yellow removes one yellow pawn. These are the two spaces, unoccupied positions.
Players can only move pieces of their colour, while both players can move neutral. Pawns are moved to an orthogonally adjacent position, as long as it is unoccupied.
Runners are moved as far as they want across a row or column as long as they land on an unoccupied position. A turn involves moving a pawn and a runner, in either order, and moving the pawn is optional.
If you can't move your runner, you lose.
Construction notes:
The game doesn't have the smoothest setup. It would help to have uniform discs for all the pieces, with a design on the runners. Or cubes. Or is it still better to have more vertical runners?
No, discs are best. I even know the symbol for the runners.
discs search
How good is this game?
Well I think it's the bees knees, whatever that means.
But a better question might be What is the role of this game?
Setup is not the slickest. Unless we use discs.
The photograph makes it look radioactive. The blue chess pieces are actually quite dark.
Yellow moved the neutral green pawn, which comes across as light in the photograph.
Some moves were not recorded.
Must have taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
What stuff, areas, rooms are on Alouette?
Alouette is very big. Big ships are attached to it, but these are babies compared to Alouette. Alouette has its own passengers and freight.
The more entertaining spaces include:
at least one eating place
cruise ship mess Where a lot of the drama, or at least conversation, happens.
Lounge. You could play a game of Space there.
A bar? Could save that for a planet, or a pod.
Think indoor soccer. A smaller sports place, also used for dance. Hockey in space.
Theatre/auditorium, like on cruise ships. Used for entertainment, lessons, corporate gatherings, possibly religion.
excercise room
running track
A swimming pool might be too much to ask for, but surely a jacuzzi could be squeezed in.
sleeping quarters
plants?
Some decoration, art is present. And miscellaneous personalisation.
There are windows.
A place for kids.
While we're at it, here is a brief clip of a freighter's bridge/operations room.
So what happens with night and day? One option is to have different night and day for different people. The people stuffed in Pod A can run around Alouette during their day time while the B people are
in their sleeping quarters. Someone is responsible for keeping the A people under control.
They're eating these on the Artemis moon mission (Not sure of the brand; they all look the same). It helps that they are shelf stable.
Thomas Crapper & Co. wristwatch
