{"product_id":"apollo-47","title":"Apollo 47 + complimentary PDF (via online store)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom Tim Hutchings, the designer and publisher of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leisuregames.live\/products\/thousand-year-old-vampire\"\u003eThousand Year Old Vampire\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Apollo 47 asks you to sit with boredom and stupidity in a way that boring, stupid games cannot come close to. When you play Apollo 47 there is a constant tension around wanting things to happen - interesting things, dramatic things - and every time they don't the game just gets better. Apollo 47 is easily one of my favorite games, ever.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text-right\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e                                                                   -Jason Morningstar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Apollo 47 makes the mundane enveloping. You start playing, and soon you'll have a crowd listening in to the latest issues with the RCU cable. It's a chill vibe of tech-speak improv that just makes my brain buzz pleasantly.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text-right\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-James Stuart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn a somewhat alternate Earth in a rather different 1987 you will explore the Moon on the 47th Apollo Mission!  The Moon!  Where forty-six other moon missions have gone before.  Forty-six.  That's an awful lot of successful Moon missions.  \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnd that's the point:  Apollo 47 imagines a future where walking the surface of the Moon is a little bit boring.  You engage in workaday astronaut activities using a simple improvisatory rules set to play in a quiet world of technobabble and the slow progression of science.  If something exciting happens please stop play immediately and go do something else–you are in the wrong game.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis zero-prep game of improvisatory radio chatter can be played through just about any communications medium for any length of time.  Five minutes to spare?  Spend it recalibrating a JLDO unit that's gone out of alignment.  Tighten the tamping line using the three baseline screws.  The blue screen torques the focus to the left, the green screw adjusts the dust pan height.  You should have a yellow-handled size 20 tamping gun and a slot puller in your work bag.  Got them?  Okay, so next...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne astronaut is supported by a team of voices on the radio.  Work, banter, and cause gentle problems for each other.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI... I just can't explain this game any better than that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat you get in the PDF\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1 page contains the game\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9 pages contain advice on how to play the game\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e13 pages contain useful prompts for operating the game\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7 pages of thematic art and etc\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat you get in the\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eprint book:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYou are buying a twelve-hundred page book.  It's 8.5x11 and over seven pounds (3.3kg).  It's just stupid big.  The books pages are distributed roughly this way:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1 page contains the game\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9 pages contain advice on how to play the game\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e13 pages contain useful prompts for operating the game\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1177 pages are reproductions of NASA manuals and papers related to the Apollo missions which can, if you need it, provide prompts to spur you on.  Spoiler:  I never use the prompt pages and don't really expect you to do so.  They just aren't necessary for play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe book is a tremendous folly.  It's ludicrous and bloated and couldn't make me happier.  If you aren't joining me in hearty guffaws at something this THIS then stick with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/timhutchings.itch.io\/ap47\"\u003ethe PDF\u003c\/a\u003e.  You'll be fine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Petit Guignol","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41394775621711,"sku":"","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1380\/9101\/files\/246241.jpg?v=1712241871","url":"https:\/\/leisuregames.live\/products\/apollo-47","provider":"Leisure Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}