Watch the Skies 1500 is coming to GenCon, leveraging the Basenti Game System.
Watch the Skies is a megagame experience that is a hybrid of board game, RPG and political simulation. Players represent the scientists, diplomats, military leaders and politicians of the world's most influential nations, and a smaller group of players representing the aliens. Will you work with others to try to save humanity, or will you use the crisis to advance your own interests?
Unlike other versions of Watch the Skies, Watch the Skies 1500 casts humanity backward to the dawn of Age of Exploration, the year 1500 CE.
The basic premise is that unknown aliens visit earth with unknown intentions. The main part of the game is about how humanity as a collection of political entities decides to react to this.
Unlike other versions of Watch the Skies, our model includes a dynamic domestic politics model - where power may shift among players.
Will you play nicely with your peers - finding a way to broker world peace and cooperation in the face of an outside force, or will you use the crisis to advance your own interests?
Join us for Watch the Skies Turbo - an experience that is out of this world.
Original content for Watch the Skies is licensed by Stone Paper Scissors.
Watch the Skies: Turbo is a shorter experience that integrates the narrative into the Basenti Game System.
Watch the Skies 1500 pushes the experience backwards in time, to the dawn of globalization and age of exploration.