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Greetings Galactic Citizens,
This is a solo player game where you take on the role of an Intergalactic Space Trader. You have a freighter which you will use to fly from planet to planet selling your trade goods in the hope of making a profit. You can upgrade your ship, buy bigger ships, make investments and trade goods. Along the way you might do some mining, find a derelict ship, fend off space pirates or head into the entertainment sector. Who knows whom you might meet there.
It is important to understand this game is the following:
Free (with a pay what you want option, any contributions are appreciated)
A print and play game
A solo player game
Designed for economy printing, with minimal colour
A portable tabletop game
IST is a game you can play on the move, as you do not have to use dice although a set of polyhedral dice is handy. You can instead, close your eyes and place a pen on a chart and generate a result that way.
Format
IST is designed to be portable, being in an A6 format. Each page is A6 but can be printed A5 also. Using a PDF reader you can set the files to print as booklets if you have A5 paper, and you can always tear in half A4 pages in half. The game was always designed to be carried in a pocket.
—description from the designer
- taking control of trade in space
- space
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- I think sometimes that gets pushed aside for all these Kickstarters with all these different type of minis and expansions and bigger and flashier and we all get sucked into it and the gameplay just isn't there.
- it's it's one of those things where a print and play games are really really more important now than than ever.
- I mean, you could probably get all these games for what you would pay for maybe, you know, you know, maybe 60 60 bucks.
- And each booklet has a different story with a a a great final boss and a lot of fun and and very very very cheap and affordable.
- If it could go wrong, it'll go wrong.
- I have gotten my butt kicked by this game a million times.
- And just absolute fun.
- And I think it's a time, you know, when when people want to make things tougher that you we should be leaning to our print and plays and just have fun because there's a lot of brilliant, brilliant people out there making brilliant and wonderful games.
- So, uh, definitely check out the videos for them and check them out.
- if you're looking for the new year for some good fun and you want to save some money, these are the games that you will have hours and hours of just great fun with.
- So much fun. So much fun.
- And for you sci-fi nuts like myself, it is one that you will absolutely love and just have a blast with.
- Saving a buck and having fun, that's what gaming's about.