Gribble Space

Six faces, and all of them yours

You land on a cube planet with a little money and three tools lying in the grass: a bubble gun, a club and a laser pistol. You walk from one face to the next straight over the edge and never fall off. The shop sits on top. Around the sides: the warehouse, the landing strip, and a pine wood cut in two by a river. The rare creatures keep to the underside. And filling half the sky, a black hole.

The bubble gun

Hit a creature and it ends up inside a bubble, alive, floating at knee height until you tuck it into your bag. The sturdy ones pop the bubble and bolt. Then you wear them down a little with the club before trying again, or come back with better gear.

35 species, five rarities, and the Rainbows

The Gloubi grazes a few steps from the shop. The Spectrou glides above the pines. The rare ones live under the planet, and the only legendary around lives on the neighbouring planet, one flight away. Every species has a Rainbow variant, vanishingly rare, with a first name of its own. The Dodex keeps a record of everything you have met and everything you have caught.

Your shop, your prices

The build gun puts pens wherever you want them: ground domes, pools, aviaries, a big enclosure for several creatures at once, a display case for the special one. You set a price on every slot. Customers come through the portal with something specific in mind, compare it with the going rate, and walk out with nothing if you push your luck. A comfortable pen sells for more. The market never sits still: a species in fashion climbs, the one you keep selling drops, and now and then the whole thing booms or crashes.

The ship, the city, and what nobody tells you

A ship waits on the strip, no brakes, with a parachute for landings. It takes you to a round planet with creatures of its own. The shop's portal opens right in the middle of the alien city, under the domes, between the vats and the market with the flags. That is where your customers come from. Nobody has told you yet what they do with the creatures once they get home.

Solo or with three friends

Open your game to three more players. No fixed roles: everyone hunts, builds and sells. Each player keeps their own purse, and the shop's till goes to whoever remembers to empty it.