In Earthless, Blackbird Interactive is searching for a new sci-fi strategy frontier.
Blackbird is unusually forthcoming about just how many mistakes it takes to get a game right. Big pieces of Earthless have only recently been nailed down despite more than two years of iteration. Ma built his first prototype with physical cards and initially envisioned controlling a small fleet.
Switching to one ship helped connect those two pieces but also had its own creative dead ends."We had the idea that we needed variety, so we needed to make a modular ship system," says Aduna."But at the end of the day, we're playing the game and it's like… you know, it's not really doing anything. So let's make bespoke ships that have a lot of personality.
Even the"captain fantasy" element only clicked into place six months ago, when someone in a meeting said"You can't be a captain unless you have a crew." It may sound obvious, but it changed their perspective on the crew's personalities."If you're a captain and you don't care about your crew, that's almost like not having a crew to begin with," Smith says.
The version of the game I played didn't yet have what it takes to establish a new colony in a corner of space as competitive as the deckbuilding quadrant. But the right ideas are all there; Earthless's team seems to have worked out the star chart they need to put their ship on the correct course. All that's left now is to see it through.Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.
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