Travel and 'Together Among the Stars'
This is a short devlog on how travel and discovery work in this game vs the game it's hacked from, Together Among the Stars by Takuma Okada (which is itself a 2-player version of the famous Alone Among the Stars), basically just written cause I'm doing a twitter play-through of Alone Among the Stars and I wanted to go over some comparisons afterwards, without taking up a bunch more tweets.
Both original games feel to me like they're meant to be a bit dreamlike. You string together a series of potent moments, but the rational connections between them are weak unless you impose that yourself when you write a journal entry. It kinda leans towards poetry. Pockets full of Stars is meant to be more story-book, so it had to have a clearer thread. That comes through most in two ways:
- in 'Pockets', you draw some cards as inspiration for each planet, give it a name, and give it and its inhabitants some basic features and a landmark, then start doing stuff down on the planet. 'Together' has you jump straight in after rolling for how many moments/finds the planet has—you go straight to the first moment.
- the order of events for discovering something is flipped. In 'Together', you roll to see how you discover something, then flip the card to see what you discover; in 'Pockets' you have some kind of idea what you're discovering, then you roll to see how the discovery goes.
So 'Pockets' tries to give you a little more structure (though you've still got a lot of freedom) to fit closer to the medium.
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Pockets full of Stars
be a giant. jump between strange planets and stars. help the tiny people you meet along the way.
Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Author | Speak the Sky |
Tags | Cozy, GM-Less, Print & Play, Space, tabletop-role-playing-game, Two Player |
Languages | English |
Accessibility | Color-blind friendly, Blind friendly |
More posts
- Version 2.1: HTML and EPUB versions!Sep 04, 2023
- New minimum price + community copiesJan 22, 2020
- Pockets full of Stars - version 2!Jan 21, 2020
- Pockets full of Stars v1.1Jul 15, 2019
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