Modular: First Time Out With I Love the Corps
A house full of teens playing I Love the Corps!
“Cover the back of your necks! It’s going for your necks!”
“Use the black hole gun!”
“I’m out of Hero Points!”
“Kill them! Kill them!”
“Argh!”
Yes the house is full of teens playing a review copy of indy game I Love the Corps, a self-consciously SciFi game which hits the notes of 90s Military SF, with a dose of Aliens, plus video games like Call of Duty and Mass Effect (the referee’s book has a handy appendix of inspirations, including music). The lads range from 12 through to 16, with my son Kurtzhau, 14, in the middle and in the thick of it refereeing an ambitious one-shot he’s crafted involving rebel humans and sinister uploading aliens, epic scale space dreadnoughts, and more twists than a sack-full of broken micro USB cables.