In order to make the game easier to publish by gamecrafters and digitally. I thought of retheming my Eldritch Express game, which is inspired on Eldritch Horror, Arkham Horror and Elder Sign into something new where I could have more flexibility and less copyright problems.
I originally thought of using another Horror theme I had for other games, but the problem is the core mechanics of Doom Track vs Elder Sign track does work with that thee, and changing that would mean changing the whole game, or the whole balance of the game.
Now I am willing to change a few mechanics, but not the core mechanics that makes the game work. So I was trying to explore if other non-horror themes could be explored.
One theme that came up to my mind, if a Cyberpunk style world like Android or Shadowrun, where:
- The ancient one is a company with a special plan to conquer the world
- The investigator are people getting aware of this and try to stop the company.
- The duality Health/Sanity, Physical/Magical, could be represented with Physical/Digital, where digital is any hacking activity. Spells would be programs.
- Monsters will be increases security or threats in the physical and digital world : Security guards, Virus, etc
- Conditions could be physical or Digital Damage special wounds.
So first, I wanted to know if you actually liked the idea.
Second, I was wondering if other non-horror theme could actually fit for such game design.
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Of course, the game is listed on BGG and you also have my website:
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/200579/eldritch-express
http://bgd.lariennalibrary.com/index.php?n=GameIdea.GameIdea-EldritchExp...
Another theme I thought is a Secret Agent Theme, where you have agents trying to stop an evil plot.