Billions watched the live global broadcast of the first Squeak hopping on the Mun over 50 years ago.
Now, the various nations on planet Tree have finally come together as the United Forests and have created a planet-wide space program to peacefully explore their solar system.
You have been selected to lead the Exploratory Branch of that program.
Send survey probes into the void, reaching far away moons and distant icy comets.
Go where no Squeak has gone before and put two adorable little paws on another planet.
Design and construct never-before seen spacecraft, purpose-made for your missions in interplanetary space.
Peacefully explore the Squeak's solar system and establish research outposts on its many worlds and moons.
Maybe, just maybe, make startling discoveries out on the final frontier and herald a new era for all of Squeakind...
most innovative mechanics among all entries of the contest
best rulebook of the contest
best game designed within the contest timeframe
2nd best game overall (among 67 entries)
Download the full print & play board game today!
The Mini-Expansion 1 - Supply Drop, expanding the solo player's options.
Expansion 2 - Unity, transforming the game into a coop-experience for two players.
Expansion 3 - Space Race, featuring a sandbox-mode for solo and a competitive experience for two players.
Expansion 4 - Skywards, introducing 18 new directives for even more variety during solo- and coop-sessions.
Expansion 5 - New Worlds, introducing additional tiles and variants for all modes of play.
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The optional action summary cards, supplementing the base game's action summary component and make learning the game a bit easier ;-)
Blank Directive Cards - create your own custom content for this game!
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A competitive roll&write for one to infinitely many players, about agriculture in ancient Egypt.
Allot land to the peasants, invest in irrigation canals and make sure you do not overflood the land while doing so.
This is mostly a classic roll&write, an easy-to-learn but hard-to-master experience that sees you choosing die values to write and draw on your sheet, aiming for a high score.
Akhet plays in 20-30 minutes (often less), thanks to the fact that all players act simultaneously. Gather some dice, print one sheet for each player and start playing!
Download the game today and fulfill your Pharao's decree...
It is also available on itch.io and depending on where you live, that might be the faster download.
(the original contest version remains available as well, for those curious on how this game started)
A competitive roll&write for two to four players, inspired by various classic travelling board games of yesteryear.
Plan your route through the realm exploiting the action of your rivals, visit all the towns, villages and mines and then be the first to make it back to the capital.
This is a hybrid between a classic board game and a roll&write, all players do share a single game sheet to write values on and even move meeples there.
Download the game today and tour the realm...
It is also available on itch.io and depending on where you live, that might be the faster download.
A lore-heavy game in 54 cards, set in an original semi-hard sci-fi universe.
This 2 or 3 player game features a card-based travel mechanic which casts players as mysterious pilgrims competing to reach the entity known as Goyum first, who awaits them in the Milky Way's center behind the wall of suns.
Focusing on card memorization and deck manipulation, this 30 minute galactic journey is represented by three shared decks of cards, manipulated by all players during the game.
Cards feature chances to buy or sell various types of cargo, make rare offers to obtain upgrades as well contain dangerous encounters, all wrapped into mysterious lore which is revealed snippet by snippet.
Rejoice, for the signs are clear: The presaged time has come.
All shackles of caste and clan are exiguous now.
Goyum beckons and the faithful gather.
Now, we must travel corewards...
A true wargame for either two or four players based only on roll&write-mechanics. You have been assigned as captain of a dice-powered attack submarine about to make contact with the enemy. The cold war between the Northern Coalition and the Southern Alliance is about to escalate and the numbers and technological capabilties on both sides even out, so it is up to your wits and tactics to ensure that your side emerges from this first engagement with an advantage.
Focusing on symmetrical, tactical gameplay based on action-programming within a world of incomplete information, this game was specifically designed to feature good playability over video-chat software to scratch the wargamer's itch in times of the pandemic. It only requires some dice, a pencil and one printed player sheet each. And willingness to learn the rules.
Download In Cold and Dicey Waters and submerge beneath the waves...
A fast playing card-game for 2+ players (3 per copy, scaling to infinitely many players) featuring streamlined engine-building and resource-negotiation.
With the throne empty, the barons of the realm vie for control over its remaining social pillars, like the clergy and bailiffs of the land.
Rapidly expand the exploitation of your current fief in a mad rush to the throne and sway the struggle for political domination in your favor...
...or simply take the crown by force, before somebody else does it!
available soon