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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Design | #5 | 3.889 | 4.125 |
| Originality | #5 | 4.360 | 4.625 |
| Adherence to the Theme | #8 | 4.007 | 4.250 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Ooo! Really like this a lot! Makes me want to start designing custom cards to use for this. Really interesting theme and mechanics.
Much obliged. It was a fun game to put put together. I thought about cards, too. I might turn it into a Print and Play or physical game at some point.
Seems really refreshing and different!
I wish (because it's one of the main things that pumps me up when playing something) you had set some special skills or various strategies for the explorers. I guess you ran out of space?
Thank you, Adalil. It was totally inspired by Necron-map games like Mechanicus and Space Marine Adventures. I have enjoyed those a lot lately.
As far as special skills and the like go, yes, it was a space thing, but also a asymmetry thing. With the Guardians having a monopoly on the abilities and special powers, I was hoping the simplicity of the variation of the Explorers would thematically contrast it. Secretly, I would love for everyone to have cool powers. That is a lot of fun.
Man, I love the way the guardians faction can recombine threat choices for this. The card deck nature of the explorer card pool is a really cool idea, and I feel could make for very different encounters with the same Explorer group entering a new set of ruins.
Thanks, darkPrince010!
Oh, I could have gone on for days with the Guardian threats. Some of the more complex ideas (thankfully) were cut due to time. Yeah, I would love to even do a set of threats in different combinations for "levels" or different adventures that the Explorers could embark on. Maybe even a campaign mode where the Explorer player can swap out cards from the deck or gain abilities for having certain cards in their stack. There's some good possibilities I am looking forward to exploring.