Space Fam

Hello!

Welcome home. Let me get the light for you. Are you hungry? Chilly? I kept my engine primed and my portholes polished. Maybe you could help scrape the rust off my walls, but I assure you they remain sturdy. I’m ready for you. Your trusty ship.

Are you ready to play? To be playful, I mean. To tell a story, our story, of a crew of plucky smugglers on a sputtering spaceship and the passenger we’re carrying across a precarious quadrant. It’ll be a long haul, full of hijinks, of growing close and keeping each other warm, and if we’re lucky, of making peace with our troubled pasts. Like all long hauls and stories, it’ll certainly be full of goodbyes.

So how about it? Let’s play Space Fam.

So what's this game like?

If you mean in gameplay, Space Fam is a GM-less RPG where you make characters, take turns picking a scene from a menu of options, and then the game text guides you through each scene. You don't even need to read the book before you sit down and start playing. Put another way, it's a hack of Mobile Frame Zero: Firebrands by Meguey and Vincent Baker.

More explicitly, Space Fam is based on Our Traveling Home by Ash Kreider; if you liked being a gay wizard or demon in that game but want to do it in space, Space Fam's got you covered.

Designer commentary included

The game has been released as a part of the Disc 2 jam.

A commentary podcast episode for the game is available here.

The game also comes with eight previous versions of the game's procedure for action sequences to look back on and learn from if you're a designer who's into that kind process breakdown.

Specs

• Recommended players: 3-6 (but especially 5)
• Book length: ~30 pocket-sized pages
• Session length: 1-4 hours
• Campaign length: 4-8 sessions