level 7

[Grabula]

Reading this: http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2012/06/oddball-lunatic-fringe-unmasks.html

Found this for you boardgamers http://privateerpress.com/level7/level-7-escape

[chromedog]

So they're finally releasing it.

Expected ... more somehow. Something more like a Sci-Fi heroquest.

Survival horror bores me to tears.

[ElectricPaladin]

So they're finally releasing it.

Expected ... more somehow. Something more like a Sci-Fi heroquest.

Survival horror bores me to tears.

Hey, Chromedog. Odd - I never noticed you outside the Infinity forums before. I guess it's confirmation bias: now that I've noticed you there, I'll notice you elsewhere, too.

Anyway, I feel differently. I'm intrigued by Level 7. The production values seem pretty high, I have a lot of faith in Privateer Press's design and artistic departments, and I'm looking forward to seeing what "semi-cooperative" means. Will it be "cooperative with a traitor" like Betrayal at House on the Hill or the Battlestar Galactica game? Or something else entirely.

Also, I don't think Level 7 will be that different from a sci-fi Heroquest. Just a survival horror themed sci-fi Heroquest. It looks like there's a flexible tile-based board and missions.

I'm certainly going to investigate it when it comes out and try to find someone to play the game with. If I like it, I'll buy it. Story-based board games are one of the places where my interest in games intersects with my wife's interest in role-playing (an interest I share, but it's harder and harder to plan full-on RPG sessions as we age and life gets more complicated), and I'd like to have more of them around.

Personally, I was hoping for a whole new science fiction minis game, but I have to agree with TheFrontlineGamer (http://thefrontlinegamer.blogspot.com/) that this was never a likely scenario. Privateer Press just isn't big enough to support multiple wargames. And besides - this way I can focus my sci-fi attention on Infinity.

[wittdooley]

At least hero quest had minis :-/