Hi everyone!
To tell you where Adapt came from, I have to take you back several years, before COVID-19, to a world that was a little different. At the time, I was doing a lot of conventions, including a lot of people sitting down to try out our games.
Our Tabletop RPG sessions were a huge hit, perhaps unsurprisingly. Maybe more surprisingly, our card games – especially Champion of Earth – were also in high demand, to the degree that some of our team who were focused on talking rather than running actually cleared areas of table of other products to offer a demonstration of this incredibly simple game.
Now, obviously, there’s a limit to how far you can go down the road of enhancing an existing game. To be honest, I think it’s better to stop before you hit it, rather than after.
So I decided to make a new game, one inspired by something I had as a child – “I’ve Created a Monster!”, which was effectively Happy Families, but had a fun gimmick of putting together your monster from body parts.
Instead, I went a different direction:
Alien Space Cadets who have to face a variety of simulated environments to prove they are the best choice to be the first of their kind to go into space!
Yeah, a bit odd, I know! But it’s quite me, right? There was even someone I worked with once who referred to me as “a bit of a space cadet”!
It was very well-received by people at work who tried out my games and, despite the fact it was quite random in its gameplay, people started to develop tactics.
I refined and improved it, and that’s what I’m offering on Kickstarter soon. I’m just waiting for the last of my graphic design stuff to launch this project, so I hope you’ll consider joining us when it does happen: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/adapt?ref=4u7u3e
Thank you for reading and let me know if you have any questions in the comments! I’ll see you next week with another update!
– Ed
