Friday, June 6, 2014

Space Bugs prototype done!

In Space, Nobody Can Hear You Scream... frantic orders to your team mates!



Space Bugs is a light, fast and fun game about defending a space station against invading space bugs. The bugs (custom dice) enter the space station through alien space ships (modified dice towers) and the players have only 30 seconds to draw random crew members (wooden meeples) from their individual crew bags and place these on the bugs of the same colors.

If the bugs aren't defeated when time runs out, the stace station takes damage. Should players find the time for it, they can cooperate to repair the space station - but it requires the right kind of crew members to do so.

Beware, however, because each bug needs TWO crew members on it to eliminate it.

To spice things up in the more grown-up version of this otherwise family-friendly game, special cards are handed out each round. These change the elements of the game in simple manner, for example by having blue bugs deal more damage or cause more panic (useless meeples) to be added to player bags if a certain part of the space station is not cleared of bugs. Simple changes for one round only, but not so simple to communicate and deal with when you only have thirty seconds!

Simple and fun game, lasting about 20 minutes, for 1 - 4 players (the more the better).
Police Precinct 2nd edition (due end of 2014) awarded "2013 Best Co-Operative Game" by Club Fantasci.

Here is the cover for 2nd edition, featuring clarifications, fixes, art improvement, an extra city map to play on (!) and other cool stuff!


A preview of (one of the two) game boards for second edition: