Community22 Dec 2021It's the Final Countdown...Stand by for action, brave commanders! Here at Thunderbox HQ we're getting ready for our final crew update, and it's a good one... This update will finally max out the crew roster (to 18), and adds numerous enhancements. Joining the existing crew are The First Officer and Janitor - bringing totally new strategies to the game with their unique set of abilities... L O G I C A L The deceased capta…
...Your thoughts to my thoughts! It's time for the Beta Channel to get cosmic with the addition of a mysterious, new crew member: The Telepath! P S Y C H I C The Telepath can use his mind-bending power to trade skills with any crew member on the ship without the use of the Comm System. This means that he can boost his abilities even when under attack from Alien Soldiers, or in the presence of a…
Fresh Update incoming!!! Check out new crew and features for The Captain is Dead ! U P D A T E v 1.3 The latest update brings the Medical and Weapons Officers to the main build, ready to heal injured crew while grumbling incoherently, and dispense smooth torpedo justice to any jive-talking alien spaceships lurking off your starboard bow. You'll also notice the crew are a little... chattier than…
Space... The final frontier... Our mission continues... to bring you more crew... more features... and more laser-to-face danger! C R E W Get ready for the next crew members to beam aboard: The Weapons and Medical Officers! The Weapons Officer is a smooth operator... but you wouldn't like to see him angry! His mastery of torpedoes makes short work of any pesky alien ships that are hanging aroun…
Ahoy there, crew! Our second major update is officially live today, as we continue our plans to emiggen your bad-ass space posse, with 2 new crew members for you to command! The versatile Hologram is only activated in dire emergencies... which pretty much describes your current situation perfectly! Fortunately he's fast, effective and immune to meddling alien invaders. Unfortunately if the ship…
We've been working like crazy on the next update, and I'm excited to say that it's a biggie! Aside from a major pass on the animation, to improve the silky smoothness, we're adding two new characters (the versatile Hologram, and mysterious Scholar) and 36 brand-new achievements . You may have already heard that these Medals (as we like to call them) are all rock hard. Our team have only been ab…
Heads up, crew! We've just uploaded a new beta release, with bug-fixes, tweaks and, oh yeah... THE HOLOGRAM! That means that if you've subscribed to the beta , this photonic fellow will be waiting for you when you next fire up the game. There are two things you need to know about this unusual crew member, who has been added in at the vociferous behest of our lovely Discord community... One! The…
Let's cut straight to the chase here, people: Achievements are for the weak! Most games reward you for just booting them up... but not The Captain is Dead . No sirree! We've decided to do things differently with our Achievements, and have crafted them with the following tenets in mind... · To have value , they must require effort . · To reflect mastery , they must encourage advanced techniques…
Flip open your Communicator, and bust out the PADD - it's time to go mobile! Don't get caught short on an away mission... The Captain is Dead is available for all good mobile devices. And even some bad ones. Check out the pan-galatic pocket panic, in the mobile launch trailer from way back in the day... Featuring all the deep-space devastation of the Steam version, but with added touch-wouchy,…
Ahoy there, crew! Our first update is officially live today, adding (among other things) 2 new crew members to your team! The Teleporter Chief can get you what you need, where you need it. He'll keep your systems running smoothly, and can beam crew and tools around the ship for free. Use his mastery of teleportation to sneak weapons to other crew members when aliens are in the room! From her co…
Here at Thunderbox HQ we've been working away diligently on upgrading and improving your starship! We'd like to share a quick road-map of what's coming up in the not-too-distant future... More Crew! We're aiming to deliver a new crewman roughly every month, starting very, very soon. The next three space cases to join your intrepid team will be... · Teleporter Chief - this surly gent is an exper…
Fresh from starring in Immortals - Fenyx Rising for Ubisoft, and Blood of Zeus on Netflix, prodigious actor Elias Toufexis joins the crew of The Captain is Dead for some over-the-top, sci-fi survival strategy. If you’ve played a videogame in the last 10 years, you will undoubtably have heard Elias’ gravelly voice in titles like Splinter Cell Blacklist , Far Cry Primal , Assassin’s Creed Odyssey…
Join Mandi & Suzanne from The Dice Tower, along with Ashley from Meeple Mountain, as they try out a new, extra dangerous rule variant, exclusive to the digital edition of this stylishly intense, sci-fi, survival/strategy game. It's called Deadly Mode ... how hard could it be? Will our team survive the alien onslaught... or end up as space dust? Tune in to find out! Episode 1 - In which the ship…
It's the last 10 minutes of your favourite sci-fi show… except that this time things have gone seriously wrong and The Captain Is Dead! Join Mandi & Suzanne from The Dice Tower, along with Ashley from Meeple Mountain, as they try out a new, extra dangerous rule variant exclusive to the digital edition of this stylishly intense, sci-fi, survival/strategy game. It's called Deadly Mode ... how har…
Here at Thunderbox, The Captain is Dead is one of our most favoritest board games EVAH! Recreating the intense experience of battling a relentless alien nemesis with a band of your best buddies is a daunting task... so we decided to skip the literal approach that most digital board games take, and go in phasers blazing . We've taken the fantastic gameplay of the tabeltop version, and fused it w…
Space can be a dangerous place. Particularly if your Jump Core has blown a fuse. You may think you're a seasoned, interstellar hard-case... but things can go south pretty fast when the sub-space anomaly hits the fan. Join the digital designer, from Thunderbox Entertainment, Dan Taylor as he tries to save the ship on one of the trickier difficulty settings, with back-up and/or scathing critique…
Here at Thunderbox, The Captain is Dead is one of our most favoritest board games EVAH! Recreating the intense experience of battling a relentless alien nemesis with a band of your best buddies is a daunting task... so we decided to skip the literal approach that most digital board games take, and go in phasers blazing . We've taken the fantastic gameplay of the tabeltop version, and fused it w…
The dynamic duo of Mandi Hutchinson and Suzanne Sheldon are pretty amazing. By day they review board games on The Dice Tower ... but by night they also stream the latest and greatest digital editions under the secret identity of Salt and Sass ! And if you were wondering why voice of the ship's Counselor sounds familiar, it's because her laid-back burns are provided by none other than Mandi hers…
We'll be showing the first official gameplay footage of The Captain is Dead as part of an exclusive reveal on the Future Games Show , from GamesRadar+ . Showcasing the most exciting games of 2020 and beyond, this hour-long show will be streamed on Saturday, June 13th at 14:30 PDT / 17:30 EDT / 22:30 BST on Twitch , Facebook , YouTube and GamesRadar , straight after the PC Gaming Show. See the m…
Here at Thunderbox we work hard to create innovative and unusual video games, all based on fantastic board games. We're trying to do something super fresh with The Captain is Dead and our delightful Design Director, Dan (whole lotta 'D's going on there), will be on our Discord server to chat about the convergence of board and video games, as well as answer any questions you may have! On top of…
The original board game of The Captain is Dead has an amazing art style, almost like an old, low-poly video game... which made it a no-brainer for us to go with the same, retro style for the digital version. The soundtrack, however, was not such an easy decision... We were originally looking for an epic, space opera feel, reminiscent of James Horner's fantastic score for Star Trek II - The Wrat…
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