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Science Fiction Trivia
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3.40am actually.. so yeah, technically it kept me awake half the morning..
Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied
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Back to Selezen's question.
I have no idea, and up to now I only came across this (WARNING! Sanity-leak detected! Leave the area immediatly!).
What about another hint?
I have no idea, and up to now I only came across this (WARNING! Sanity-leak detected! Leave the area immediatly!).
What about another hint?
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Aha – I think I've got it. Might we be talking about the Cloakmaster novels, set in TSR's "Spelljammer" universe? The Wikipedia entry doesn't mention any spider-aliens but the rest of it seems pretty close!
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Okay ... hmm. This will be more of a test of people's research abilities than anything else, I suspect, so Google away!
Name the game: published in the same year as Elite (but don't let that fool you), it was for three players and featured two alien races with radically different interstellar travel technologies, with humanity sandwiched in between. It's unusual not least for the fact that each of the three races represented are significantly different and yet reasonably balanced.
Name the game: published in the same year as Elite (but don't let that fool you), it was for three players and featured two alien races with radically different interstellar travel technologies, with humanity sandwiched in between. It's unusual not least for the fact that each of the three races represented are significantly different and yet reasonably balanced.
Starcraft?Disembodied wrote:Okay ... hmm. This will be more of a test of people's research abilities than anything else, I suspect, so Google away!
Name the game: published in the same year as Elite (but don't let that fool you), it was for three players and featured two alien races with radically different interstellar travel technologies, with humanity sandwiched in between. It's unusual not least for the fact that each of the three races represented are significantly different and yet reasonably balanced.
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Goran gets it first time, and wins himself 100 geek-points!goran wrote:Web & Starship?
Interestingly (for a given value of "interesting"), someone has had a go at making a computer version of the original board game – Windows only, though. Not a bad idea, since it should really have been a computer game from the get-go. A good idea unfortunately snookered by a complicated game-mechanic which didn't really work with counters and a paper board ...
