![]() Once the peg is moved to a legal space, the players will take all available actions on that space. Civs start with Tech I spaces, but there is a chain of events that will lead them to Tech II, Tech III, and Tech IV spaces, namely, researching technologies that let them advance down the tech tree (or should I say, sideways?) Players have one solitary worker, a peg with their color on it, on any available space on the tech tree that is open to their advancement. (Although if you want me to talk about it in video form, here’s me giving Dan Letzring and Steve “The Name Father” O’Rourke the overview last year on Gumbo Live!): ![]() The game itself is so simple, just three paragraphs will be needed. I should restate the game mechanics less Jones-y for clarity’s sake. That gigantic hunk of card board is a tech tree, with most of it hidden from the players, waiting from them to discover the secrets behind the unassuming cards that will help propel their civilization ever faster and ever farther into the future. That huge board is NOT the space travel board, although it does affect how you play that part of the game immensely. The board you will spend most of your time on, the one where you will move your scientist around as if you are plotting alien invaders on a giant radar map, that’s the humongous board that immediately commandeers your game table. Yes, the namesake space travel board is a much smaller board off to the side, where space ships will watch the Northern lights flash by as old stars die and new ones are born. But Chan pulled the rug out a bit by giving you not one but two boards: One would think a game called “Beyond The Sun” would be about rockets, and space travel, and shiny helmets with a flag in the reflection. To get to these systems, and colonize them for stuff, the designer has reversed the usual board game emphasis. ![]() ![]() In Beyond The Sun, players are corporations in the not too distant future, who have discovered the ability to travel beyond our solar system to other systems filled with planets just waiting to explore. Oh yeah, and spoiler alert, it is my favorite game of 2020! Here’s Bradly with an unboxing and overview of the game: ![]() This euro game fest plays from two to four players and takes about ninety minutes to play. But it took a pipe organ enthusiast from Boston to finally give me that feeling of space exploration that I had lying on my bunk bed in Mamou, listening to the chorus of Starrider or reading the Foundation series.īeyond The Sun is a 2020 release from Rio Grande Games designed by first time designer, Dennis K. We write books, we design computer games, and yes, we even created an entire mythos about robots in a galaxy far, far away. Instead, let this be the jumping point back to when you first discovered that there really is something big and beautiful to explore up in the sky.įor as long as humans have crafted handmade urns and adorned them with colorful artwork of the heavens, we have dreamed about Life Out There. One part harpsichord, one part starry dreaming, and one part Lou Gramm pipes overshadowing Jones’ own pedestrian voice, the mixture from Foreigner’s self-titled first album added up to a trippy, 70’s perfect poem about “space” travel (heavy emphasis on the air quotes.)ĭon’t listen to Starrider just because I mentioned it, unless you really like flutes with your Fenders. Long before heroes were made from juke boxes, before double vision got the best of him, and years and years before he wanted to know what love is, Mick Jones penned a strange song. ![]()
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