Star Scouts
A downloadable one-card voyage
Star Scouts is my one-card love letter to Antoine Bauza's board game Tokaido.
As a fledgling voyager, you set off alongside your fellow star scouts and buddies to get a taste of what the galaxy has to offer. Earn tokens and badges as you help aliens, build bots, witness wonders, and try strange foods in your efforts to prove yourself and become a fully-fledged starship pilot—all in time for dinner!
A One-Card Game
The whole game of Star Scouts takes place around a single double-sided poker-sized card. You'll need a ship token for each player (at least three tokens if you're playing a solo or two-player game, so that you've got some "Buddy" Non-Player Characters to keep you company), a six-sided die, and a few handfuls of tokens to track your friends, tech, wonders, and meals. Travel around the outer track of the card on your journey, stopping to encounter aliens, wonders, and more along the way as you do.
At each of the four starship stations along the way, everyone will rest for a bit and have the chance to try some of the local cuisine. Once everyone is ready to move on, the game continues.
When you reach the fourth and final starship station, your voyage comes to an end. Count up your tokens and badges to see how fulfilling a journey you had!
It takes about half an hour to play a game of Star Scouts, depending on how many players are playing. With two players, most games will take about 15-20 minutes.
See you out there in the black, Star Scout! o7
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Feedback
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Attributions
- Dicier typeface by Speak the Sky under CC BY 4.0
- Wash Your Hands font by Khurasan
- Open Sans Condensed typeface by Steve Matteson on Google Fonts under Apache-2.0
- Round star icon by Delapouite on Game-icons.net under CC BY 3.0
- Inspired by Antoine Bauza's board game Tokaido
Purchase
In order to download this one-card voyage you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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Development log
- Star Scouts Ahoy!Dec 01, 2021
Comments
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found this game so lovely and have been wanting to try it out solo! though how im still wrapping my head around how it would work aaa
would i collect the buddies resources for them (or for me?) or do they just purely act as blockers? would i control them myself or would i use some kind of way to randomise their movement?
thank you for creating such a cute little game and sharing it!
Oh thank you for your kind words playfulpunk! You have made my day 🥰
Good questions! The idea is that each buddy collects their own bits and bobs, and you do too. That makes it feel like you’re all competing with each other for bragging rights about who had the best journey! 😎
If you want a more relaxed or simpler experience however, you could do similar to what you said: Move your buddies as normal (see below), but don’t worry about collecting any tokens for them at all. Just collect tokens for you when you arrive somewhere new. This will make each turn a bit simpler because you don’t need to count and track all of their tokens as well as yours, you’ll only have to track yours. It’ll also mean you’re not competing for bragging rights against each other’s journeys, and you’ll only have to score your own tokens.
In regards to movement and turn order, remember that after a player has moved their ship and received a benefit from that space, the slowest, or farthest-back ship is always the next ship to take a turn, no matter which player it belongs to. If that’s your ship, then great, move where you like! If it’s a buddy’s turn to move, then who decides where to move it? One of the human players of course! (This isn’t a digital game yet 😅)
I hope that helps knock down any barriers to you being able to play Star Scouts! 😊
Muito fofo!
Muito obrigado 🥰
(I tried to translate “thank you very much” into Portuguese using Google Translate and hope it came out ok!)
a really good alternative to Tokaido. I only played Tokaido on my phone so this has become my way of playing Tokaido physically
This warms my heart to hear you say this. Thank you! 🥰
This is the CUTEST 1-card game ever!!!
Thank you very much! 😂🥰