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Press release:
London- 1st August 2019. For the past two years, digital board game specialists, Thunderbox Entertainment, have been working on a top-secret, new project… and now they are finally ready to unveil their next, laser-fuelled release: the sci-fi, survival spectacular known throughout the galaxy as “The Captain is Dead!” (which is coming to PC via Steam in 2020).

Those of you living on the outer rim of the cosmos might be unfamiliar with the original board game, which is like the last 10 minutes of your favourite sci-fi TV show… except that things have gone disastrously wrong, and (spoiler alert) The Captain is Dead.

Created in collaboration with table-top maestros, AEG and The Game Crafter, the videogame will deliver all the fun of the original, cardboard experience. Players will take charge of the ship’s stalwart crew, as they battle an unrelenting alien nemesis, intent on eating what little brains they have, and destroying their beloved ship.

You’ll need to keep a cool head and utilise each crew member’s particular set of skills to repel boarders, keep the ship operational, and survive long enough to fix the Jump Core so you can escape to safety!

Players can expect all the tightly balanced, nail-biting strategy of the boxed game, with the immersion and flow of a fully realized virtual world. The original game’s totally unique aesthetic has been painstakingly recreated in full 3D, and you’ll feel as if you’ve been teleported right on to the board.

The Captain is Dead will be beaming down to your PC in early 2020, but there are three things you can do to help save the crew right now…

Wishlist The Captain is Dead on Steam!

Share the game’s webpage with your friends!

And of course, as with every great sci-fi epic, there are many surprises still in store to keep gamers on the edge of their Captain’s seat, so be sure to follow Thunderbox on Twitter if you don’t want to miss out!

About Thunderbox Entertainment
Thunderbox Entertainment is a small team of seasoned developers who love board games. Founded by Dan Taylor and Jules Morgan, the core team has over twenty-five years of game industry experience from studios such as Sony, Electronic Arts, Rockstar, Ubisoft, Radical Entertainment, United Front Games and Eidos.

Based in Guildford, England, Thunderbox’s mission is to search out the best board games in the world, so they can take them off the table and into the digital realm. It’s a bit like the scene in Tron where Jeff Bridges gets zapped into a computer… but with less laser pain and more board game fun.

Thunderbox is proud to partner with some of the most innovative and inspiring board game makers on the planet to bring old school fun to a modern world.

You can find out more at http://thunderboxentertainment.com

About Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) & The Game Crafter
AEG was formed over twenty years ago to publish Shadis magazine. In the mid-1990s AEG created the Legend of the Five Rings. Between 1995 and 2005 AEG created an amazing universe of worlds including 7th Sea, Warlord, and Spycraft.

AEG has been transforming over the past several years to focus on board, card and dice games. We’ve created huge hits like Smash Up and Love Letter, and recent innovative games like Mystic Vale, Valley of the Kings, Automobiles, Istanbul, Thunderstone, and Dice City.

In 2017 AEG secured the publishing rights to The Captain is Dead, the critically acclaimed sci-fi, co-op game by JT Smith and Joe Price of The Game Crafter, the world’s first web-to-print game publishing company, that offers a print on demand game publishing service empowering designers around the world to make a board and card games via their website.

Find out more at https://www.alderac.com/ and https://www.thegamecrafter.com/

Jonas “O.J” Ek
The Gaming Ground
Twitter: @TheGamingGround