Ravensburger Teamed Up with a NASA Astronaut to Design the Newly Announced LUNAR OUTPOST Board Game — GeekTyrant

Final week, Ravensburger introduced a brand new cooperative board sport known as Lunar Outpost. This new sport is impressed by NOVA, the PBS science collection, and was developed with NASA astronaut Dani Tani which is fairly superior. The sport sees gamers work collectively to construct some type of base on the moon. That may very well be a habitat colony, analysis heart, or extra. As you construct the bottom, occasions will come up that may have you ever coping with lower than superb circumstances like meteorite strikes. The sport will use Amazon Alexa for Mission Management (or there’s a deck of occasion playing cards that can be utilized for offline play).

In Lunar Outpost, gamers work collectively to mine lunar components and construct a round base on the moon. Gamers can select to construct a starter base, habitat colony, analysis heart, or manufacturing facility. Every sort of base is comprised of various “modules,” akin to a photo voltaic monitor or a machine store, a few of which permit the gamers to do extra as the sport goes on. The sport additionally comes with a “Coaching Mission” to get new gamers in control.

All through the sport, gamers might want to deal with occasions starting from oxygen leaks to meteorite strikes. A newly created Alexa ability serves as Mission Management, conserving observe of the group’s progress and saying the particular occasions for every spherical. Gamers may also play offline utilizing a deck of occasion playing cards.

Tani helped present the sport designers with details about what it’s wish to stay and work in house which she has first-hand expertise with after spending time on the Worldwide House Station. Speaking about working with Ravensburger on Lunar Outpost, Tani mentioned:

It was a pleasure to work with the Ravensburger group on the Lunar Outpost sport. This sport conveys the joy, planning and intricacies concerned in constructing one thing as advanced as a lunar base. I used to be impressed with the technical, visible, and even interpersonal constancy that the sport makers insisted upon. I’m proud to be concerned with this sport and hope that our future lunar architects and explorers get their begin on this sport board!

Lunar Outpost is about to launch in June and can help 2-4 gamers. It’s advised for individuals ages 10 and up and is rated to take roughly 45 minutes to finish. You may pre-order your copy now from Amazon for $34.99.