East of Orion™ is about entertaining games that spark a player’s imagination. We design and develop games we like to play.
We are currently playtesting our Exoplanet Rush™ board game. It is a 4-turn game of quick profit for up to 6 players set in humanity’s not-too-distant future at the exoplanetary frontier. Capitalist competition thrives in the ungoverned regions just a leap ahead of Earth-based Terran governance. Players compete, and to some extent cooperate, to develop a new solar system. Make what you can while the rush lasts. When the law arrives, the capitalist heyday ends.
Also in development is a card-game variant, Exoplant Rush-The Far Reaches™, set farther out on the frontier, where the niceties of cooperative conventions are less prominent. Players can be more selfish competitors and can attack each other’s assets. As the law arrives, it brings order, world by world. It’s a two-cycle game for up to 6 players, and we are aiming for a play time of less than one hour.
Our first released game is Battlespace Sirius™–a tactical tabletop game of space combat for 2 to 6 players and lots of room to demonstrate your strategic prowess or diplomatic skill as players decide which other players to engage (and not engage) in a 20-minute contest to be the last remaining vessel. Battlespace Sirius is played with 2-to-6 playing cards representing each player’s Ship. It’s fun and quick. It’s a great filler on game day, and it’s portable enough to be taken and played anywhere.
Our next game will be Open Worlds: Battle for Extra-Solar Planets™–an expandable strategy card game for strategists of many styles.
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