His system of mutual co-operation once brought much wealth and safety to his kingdom, but in recent years he has grown both vain and naive. This presents an opportunity…

Othello’s fleet currently defends a pivotal strategic point in this sector, defending his people millenia in the past to ensure stability for a split dimension where his people were not routed.

As their dear friend Romeo turns to larger goals for the sake of Juliet, Mercutio steps in to fight a personal battle against Tybalt.

Your success with Rosalind will depend on your ability to act with bravery and your ability to pivot at a moment’s notice. Do you have what it takes to win?

As their dear friend Romeo turns to larger goals for the sake of Juliet, Mercutio steps in to fight a personal battle against Tybalt.

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Lady Macbeth is a captain best known for her ruthless ambition. In order for her to survive her accession, she needs to slowly collect blood while remaining undetected. Then, when the moment is right, she can reveal herself and claim the victory.

On the surface, she might just seem like some kind of bloody Prospero. And, to be fair, that was basically her original design pitch. But while these two captains share some notable similarities, they also have one key difference: context.

There are two key things you need to do to win in a social deception game. The first, obviously, is accomplish your primary objective. This is usually fairly straightforward and varies depending on what game you are playing. In a game like Captain’s Gambit, your objective could be killing your opponents, gathering resources, or keeping your allies alive. However, the second thing you need to do is much trickier: you need to keep your primary goal hidden. If you don’t other players will know what they need to do to stop you. For example, in Among Us, half of the Imposters’ job is to make sure the Crewmates don’t find out who they are. It’s not enough to just murder everyone; they need to secretly murder everyone.

This second goal is the same regardless of what social deception game you’re playing. This means if you want to make your own social deception game, you’re going to need to design ways that players can keep their true intentions undetected. So how can you help your players stay hidden? Today, I’m going to share a sneaky design trick we used in Captain’s Gambit to empower our players to hide in plain sight.

Despite their many revisions throughout the development of Captain’s Gambit, the core concept behind Titus has remained the same. Inspired by D.Va from Overwatch, Alvin pitched Titus as a “last-stand” captain. The idea was that right when they were about to die they would suddenly explode, taking multiple players down with them. By tying the amount of damage dealt to their blood, players could estimate the impact someone would have if they died and were secretly Titus. This created a tricky tension between killing Titus off early to reduce their reveal’s power, or leaving them alive as a potential ticking time bomb.

Portia’s challenge comes in the form of her specific bounty. Unfortunately for her, the captain most likely to become her kill target is Iago, who has most of the galaxy wrapped around his finger. As Portia, you’ll have to slow down Iago and snipe a kill before it’s too late - but how?

If you love playing Captain’s Gambit: King of Infinite Space, there are dozens of other awesome social deception, social deduction, and hidden-role games that you might enjoy. But if you aren’t very familiar with the genre, you might not know where to start. No need to worry friend, because we’ve got your back. If you’re hungry for more, here are our top five games that we’re sure you’ll love.

The funniest thing about Puck is that the best way to play him also happens to put you in the most danger of total self-sabotage.

You’ve mastered the basics. Now it’s time to level up and becomes the greatest Captain in the Stratford Galaxy!

The uncertainty of a gambit - its own chance of failing - is actually its advantage. That’s why it’s so powerful.

First time playing Captain’s Gambit? Here are our top tips for newbies to help get you started!

Here is a set of changes we’ve been making from our playtests in the Discord!

We’ve already touched on a few of the specific win conditions in Captain’s Gambit, such as Hamlet, Cordelia, Brutus, and Rosalind. But today, I want to speak more broadly about the types of win conditions in the game. While every captain’s win condition is unique, they mostly fall within one of five categories: Assassination, Ascension, Devotion, Sabotage, and Domination. Some captains straddle the line between these categories, but it is important to understand these core objectives if you hope to outwit your opponents.

It’s wild to think that it’s already been over 2 months since we successfully funded Captain’s Gambit: Kings of Infinite Space on Kickstarter. When we launched our campaign, we thought we would be lucky if we hit our $15,000 funding goal. But the fact that we managed to not only achieve our goal, but to raise $25,000 AND unlock all our stretch goals, is incredible. Thank you to everyone that helped us bring our first game to life!

We learned a lot from our campaign, and we think it would be interesting to share some of our insights with you. These insights aren’t meant to be an exhaustive list of lessons we learned, but rather highlights on some of our main takeaways.