Escape the spaceship before it blows up in a competitive/cooperative/team game for 1-6 players.
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over 3 years ago
– Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 11:05:34 PM
Hello crew mates!
Who said the ship isn't going to make it? We crushed some stretch goals over the weekend, hosted a Sci-fi THUNDERDOME, discovered a new GLEAM CONTEST and a YOUTUBE giveaway, filmed gameplay videos (shared below!) and are excited for this journey with you!
THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!
Brad and I got together to wish you thanks and ask some mission critical questions - like naming your favorite character!
BACKER INSPIRED GAME ROLES: We're looking to add YOUR IDEAS to the final roles added to the game! Whether it's a serious role like Rig Operator or a goofy role like Cruise Director - we want to hear your suggestions! Please let us know THIS WEEK a role you'd like to grab and play in this game.
Thanks for shouting out your favorite character and role ideas!
We have 42!!! - playable abilities in the game, and our next stretch goal is 42,000 and introduces exciting new answers to your changing up gameplay once again - this time, messing with your spacesuits!
WEAR YOUR SPACESUIT (AND MAINTAIN IT!)
In normal mode, and even hard mode, there's a card that will save your butt in space any day of the week, and twice on Sundays. You get yourself a spacesuit, and you're pretty set. The only shot to stop a suit is the moment it is played. After that - on the table - it cannot be canceled. So you'd be safe to travel in modules without oxygen. (It does increase the drama, as suit wearers fix less and lead to a climactic ending more often than not.) Still, there's got to be a way to keep the tension, but not make space a cake walk, right?
Introducing "UNDER PRESSURE" - our name for the optional mode unlocking next. In this mode, players receive a cube that tracks their suit integrity and a cube that tracks oxygen level. Now your suit isn't invulnerable, you know? It can take damage from time to time (from meteoroids and cascade) and be repaired like a module. Your oxygen level decreases every time you're in a module without oxygen, and this resource must be managed. You can only fix this with either an Oxygen Tank resource, or by getting to Life Support for a refill before it's too late! If the other players don't kill you, space probably will.
BOARD GAME REVOLUTION - GLEAM CONTEST
The BGR contest to win the all-in game pledge is now LIVE. To win you must be a member of the BGR Facebook group (HERE), and enter via GLEAM - which includes some 20+ ways to earn chances at the prize. Thanks for playing - and have fun!
REMEMBER - there are 2 other ways to win Mission Catastrophe and all the fixins.
The McGUIRE REVIEW Youtube - comment and subscribe to win the all in pledge, tweet and follow to win the prototype
The MISSION CATASTROPHE puzzle game - for an all in pledge AND a painted mini set! Play for 1 entry, and earn 4 more entries with the correct answer to the puzzles. Don't worry, our DISCORD channel will totally give you the answers!
GAME PLAY VIDEO - SOLO/COOPERATIVE MODE
We heard the interest in a play of co-op mode and we're excited to show you a full playthrough of a cooperative play using the expansion scenario, Renegade Robots.
The ship's automated repair robots are on the loose and (fixing?) the ship during the meteroid storm. Can Chad, Tee-Turp-Tik-Tok and Gyzma 262 get the resources they need, set 3 fuses and ESCAPE the Casimir during all this chaos? Will Cardboard Alchemist Peter remember to follow all the ship's rules? Let's find out!
WIN SPACE BASE - A SIGNED COPY!
Cardboard Alchemy hosts a monthly series on YOUTUBEcalled "A Game You Should Play!" - where we take 5 minutes to highlight a great game AND give you a chance to win a signed copy from the designer! We happen to think game designers are cool folks, and it is a one-of-a-kind giveaway!
This month (well. November and December for this one) we are talking about Space Base - a fun sci-fi dice roller that may have redefined dice rolling engine building forever. Check out our top reasons why we like it, and thanks for supporting the channel!
What else?
COMING UP BEFORE TURKEY DAY:
We have information and details on our add-on items and some exciting social goals coming up!
STOWAWAYS
If you are one of our stowaways on board the ship, ($1 level) - welcome! We are pleased you're here and excited to get you on board. The $1 level still qualifies for all pledge tiers after the campaign and stretch goals for the same price. That all said, we are not unlocking stretch goals in the Pledge Manager, and this moment right now is the chance to decide this IS the game for you, and to help us unlock up to 72 playable abilities, more modules,more cards and gameplay and possiblyanothercharacter!
Here's my pledge to us - if there's a gameplay doubt holding you back from pledging in full for a game right now, engage and let us know what we can do to win you over to a full escape pod seat! :) We need your help - Cheers!
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Thanks for being a part of this crew, and sharing this campaign everyone!
Peter and Brad
STRETCH. So say we all.
over 3 years ago
– Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 11:46:02 PM
Hello crew members!
Looking across the expanse of the bridge, we see a whole galaxy of possibilities for this game. So we've activated the STRETCH GOAL MAP! More modules, more roles, more stuff! Let's set a course for the far reaches of Kickstarter!
STRETCH GOAL MAP ON PAGE!
You'll notice a stretch goal map is now below the pledge tiers and it shows:
past goals
the current goal flashing
future goals coming up
Happy to have people guess what future goals are all about, or you can ask the team for hints!
Also - at the top of the page, we now have a preview of the next stretch goal coming up! Here's the next one in fact. This one is for all the fans of... emergency meetings in space.
It will be great to have another interrupt card in the deck! Hey let's test it out right now -Please SHARE THE IMAGE BELOW on social media! Link to Kickstarter: http://kck.st/36PGXB8
Captain! The ship's computer is reporting that one stretch goal is already unlocked, and we've discovered 3 bonus corridors on the expansion decks!
Our first goal at $33,000 we hit faster-than-light, and it's a good one. The Corridor module (and there's 3 included now in the expansion) are unnumbered, do not take damage, and prevent cascades from getting out of hand! You just have to travel a bit further and swooosh open more doors to get across the ship! There is huge customization possible.
NEW SHIP LAYOUTS POSSIBLE!
Matt Walters has an example of a ship layout you can create with the corridors. Introducing "The Earl Grey":
MORE GOALS?
YES and yes some more. First, help us cheer on the Stretch goals in the comments, ask about them and shout out your ideas for role cards and PIP cards. Then, stay tuned for SOCIAL GOALS next week - the Quacks will be addressed. We're pretty sure there's a duck or a bear on board...
STREAMED PLAYS TO WATCH
Unfiltered Gamer hosted Designer Matt Walters and Cardboard Alchemist, Peter Vaughan for a live play of Mission Catastrophe. Who survived? You'll have to watch to find out!
Tantrum House played 2 games - a 4 player Sole Survivor game and a 2v2v2 team match! The team game introduced a new action (transfer) and new twists on the cards - see which team adapted best to the chaos and found their way off the ship!
THE SCI-FI THUNDERDOME IS HERE!
SATURDAY, Nov 21 - 1pm PST / 4pm EST
We need players! Join us - it's easy, free, you can play (or watch) and WIN a one-of-a-kind prize (possibly a large printed model of a Mission Catastrophe character super glued on a trophy... cheesy but awesome). What do you need to know:
it's pop culture sci-fi trivia - loosely themed to our 12 ship locations!
jackbox style, easy log-in and play - on a computer or phone,
play by quickly answering multiple choice questions - fastest correct is the most points!
hang out with the crew!
DESIGNER INTERVIEW on OMG NEXUS
Matt Walters and Peter Vaughan on an episode of Kicking Tables talking through the game, inspiration for the design, and various ways to to change up the play. There's also a spoiler reveal of a stretch goal we have planned for a ship module!
MORE VIDEOS, DISCOVER THE SHIP!
Coming up soon - more gameplay videos! We have so much gameplay to share!
All about the robots - how you can use them in competitive sole survivor play or cooperative play, and all the different modules you can add to the ship in the expansion - how the various card strategies work. We'll shoot some video and explain more so you can you keep discovering more of the ship and the game!
Another fun way to discover the ship is to play with us on Tabletop Simulator - every THURSDAY on the Cardboard Alchemy Discord server - we host games of Mission Catastrophe. Backers are coming back for more! Plus we keep the server fun, we tell you all the the answers to the puzzles, (the ones where you can win the game and painted minis!) and someday I'm sure we'll add sci-fi replicators to make your favorite hot beverage or alien snack. In the meantime, use newfangled emojis of Mission Catastrophe characters all you like. We can't wait for you to drop in!
Cheers,
Peter and Brad
p.s. share that image above with Chad and the buzzer! Want other images - let us know. Thank you so much!
WE FUNDED! ...I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission
over 3 years ago
– Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 09:39:37 PM
Thanks Hal. Open the pod bay doors, Hal. :)
Congratulations - you are now aboard a fully funded vessel. Spacesuits for everybody!**
**(Expendable Assets Space Ventures, Inc would like to note that we are fresh out of spacesuits! But do make yourself at home in this nice big spaceship. Just keep note of the meteroids that may pass by from time to time.They probably won't hit the ship. We think.)
FUNDED!
WOO-HOO!Mission Catastrophe is coming to life, for your tabletops.This means so much to this team. We have a first time game designer on board, Matt Walters (although he has won a Technical Emmy award, so he's done some things). He is thrilled you have brought his game to life, and we are too - THE FIRST BOARD GAME PROJECT FOR CARDBOARD ALCHEMY IS A GO!
Special note from Operations module.
We've just received notice that the mission has been classified "Project We Love" by Kickstarter.
THIS IS WONDERFUL NEWS for sharing our project! We still have work to do - but welcome all our new crew! Bring on the stretch goals! We have one more day of our fun 48-HOUR goals based on # of backers (more on these in a moment), and then we'll move on to some exciting stretch goals AND social goals, that I know you'll love. We have more modules, more roles, more characters and special promos in store.
Before we get on to all the exciting updates about the gameplay, and there's a lot to talk about - we HAVE to talk about EVENTS - this week we have 4 unique very special things going on we don't want you to miss. Here, I made a graphic, because that's much easier to catch em all:
Here's a special image we made for the Thunderdome, which links to the YouTube event. Brad and Matt have themed the questions loosely to our 12 ship starting modules! Who knows the most sci-fi trivia??
There's still a lot to tell you about WINNING copies of games. That's right. The teleporter is on the fritz and it appears that Mission Catastrophe games from Earth circa 2021 are beaming onto the ship. (So we know the ship does make it). YOU can win these games. And they fit in a Kallax shelf OR an escape Pod.
Here are 3 ways to win Mission Catastrophe - keep your pledge, you'll need that to save a friend from boring game night!
Board Game Revolution on Facebook- Enter to win contests and join one of the most active and engaging game community I've seen out there!
ALSO, we reserve the right to just award prizes in our Discord channel, such as Rise of Tribes and Letter Tycoon (designed by Brad Brooks or Dwellings of Eldervale (developed/concept by Peter Vaughan). Peter here - I guarantee someone in a puzzle secret room Discord room is winning a game or games. Just sayin'
STRETCH GOALS
We have so many ways to upgrade this game planned. Corridors that go nowhere? Yep. Secret Agent role and Cruise Director roles? Definitely. ANOTHER CHARACTER and MINI??? Who knows! Promos for some of your favorite content creators? .. YES!! oh no, I've said too much. Alien Resources is totally going to write me up for this.
Here are the 3 types of goals we're looking at - thank you for sharing this Kickstarter. It means the world to us, and we're pouring it all back into the production of this game.
48 HOUR GOALS!
Right now, we're headed for one of the most fun goals to me - the "Mark Watney" special. That's right - the Botanist role cards AND a special potato PIP resource card are coming in if we hit 500 backers today! We're going to science the @$%! out of this Kickstarter - let's get all our friends to connect to this mission and we'll show you what numbers can do.
UNLOCKED so far:
The Janitor (designer's favorite role - ask him about it).
A bonus prize in the Mission Catastrophe Contest! (Another set of painted minis are up for grabs to a lucky winner. Enter here!
The d6 damage dice are all marbled and shiny! This includes the add-ons purchased for more dice sets. But don't let these dice distract you, there are still just as deadly!
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ASIA FULFILLMENT - USING VFI - VAT UPDATE
Note to all backers in Asia - we are using VFI for fulfillment and it came to our attention that they have a hub in certain countries, making the VAT covered. We're updating the shipping chart accordingly! VFI saves the Cargo Bay module once again!
Ok, I'd write more but we have ship resources to collect! Help us share this kickstarter! Here's a fun image to share. More of these will be put on the page featuring our characters!
For those of you who want more gameplay videos and rules explanations for the various modes - that's coming up! The fun has just begun!
