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A PLACE IN THE SUN: VIDEO SCENARIO & STORY BOARD
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372 words = 1768 characters = app. 2:30 min.
It is an endless void. Within it – only a few planets capable of supporting life. All of them are home to intelligent species. But
it is no coincidence they reached Space Age all at once – discovering they could not coexist.
The Arachnids: Instinct driven yet intelligent, ever mutating monsters motivated to either eat you or lay eggs in you… or
both.
The populace of Mother-ship Theta, a remnant of a lost civilization with sophisticated technology and marvelous
machinery… is devoid of morality. We’d like to think that is why they left their exhausted planet.
The Plant Mind is a sentient vegetation system, spreading from planetary surface into space. It will colonize any and all
planets and even barren asteroids… and you cannot convince a tree not to grow.
And of course there is us. We humans have heavy industry, vigilant military, powerful orbital defenses and huge battleships.
We also have all the things we love, like bureaucracy, corruption, terrorism and POLITICS. It is a wonder that we’ve survived
this long.
The game supports up to four players.
Everyone picks a solar system and places on it the planet of their choice.
Your chosen planet comes with unique faction abilities, a deck of forty cards and three leader cards.
Each turn you have to play a variable number of cards, depending on your planet position.
Then you keep what’s left unplayed and refill your hand up to five cards. This lets you plan ahead.
A Place in the Sun is a game of intuitive player interaction, intense hand management and crucial decision making.
After the post-apocalyptic adventure in Bright Future, this is our second game. We have been developing this game for over
a year now. We have completed all designs, rules and most of the amazing art you can currently see. At this time the game
has more than two hundred play tests and it has proven itself to be fun, medium weight and deeply thematic.
Intelligent life is an isolated phenomenon in the universe. There are but a few inhabitable planets – and one of them is our
world. We have outgrown it. Now is the time to look beyond. We fight for survival.
We fight for our PLACE IN THE SUN!
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Story Board
INTRODUCTION
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01 It is an endless void. Fade from black: starlit
sky.
02 Within it – only a few
planets capable of
supporting life.
Battlecruiser
background.
03 All of them are home to
intelligent species.
Battlecruiser flies in.
Fade out.
Leviathan background
fade in.
Leviathan flies in.

04 But it is no coincidence
they reached Space Age
all at once – discovering
they could not coexist.
Box cover animation.
Fade out.
FACTIONS
05 The Arachnids: Instinct
driven yet intelligent,
ever mutating
monsters…
Population Overseer
moving.
06 …motivated to either
eat you or lay eggs in
you… or both.
Roach Infestation –
moving to center.
Fast fade out.
07 The populace of
Mothership Theta, a
remnant of a lost
civilization with
sophisticated
technology and
marvelous machinery…
System Engineer, bots
moving around.

08 …is devoid of morality.
We’d like to think that
is why they left their
exhausted planet.
System Inspector –
scanning an Arachnid
larva.
Laser drilling a hole
through it.
Fast fade out.
09 The Plant Mind is a
sentient vegetation
system, spreading from
planetary surface into
space.
Tree of Life floating in
space.
10 It will colonize any and
all planets and even
barren asteroids… and
you cannot convince a
tree not to grow.
Strangler Thorns.
The shuttle floating in
one direction, the plant
tendril – in another.
Fast fade out.
11 And of course there is
us. We humans have
heavy industry, vigilant
military, powerful
orbital defenses and
huge battleships.
Planet Earth.
As in some Power Point
presentation with
diagrams popping in –
pictures appearing from
certain areas of the
planet:
– Industrial Complex;
– Mobile Infantry;
– Laser Satellites;
– Battlecruiser.

12 We also have all the
things we love, like
bureaucracy,
corruption, terrorism
and POLITICS. It is a
wonder that we’ve
survived this long.
All diagrams are swiped
out of screen.
New presentation with
diagrams:
– Bureaucracy;
– Economic Depression;
– Martial Law;
– Media Freedom.
Screen shutting down
like an old TV.

GAMEPLAY
13 The game supports up
to four players.
Fade in to space.
Four planet counters
appear.
14 Everyone picks a solar
system and places on it
the planet of their
choice.
Fade to black.
Solar board Yellow Sun
appears.
Planet Earth appears
without planetary skill
and icons.
15 Your chosen planet
comes with unique
faction abilities, a deck
of forty cards and three
leader cards.
One after another
appear:
– planetary skill and
icons;
– deck of 40 card backs
rise on the left;
– 3 card backs rise from
the Leader slot.
16 Each turn you have to
play a variable number
of cards, depending on
your planet position.
The planet counter
grows in view.
A spread of 5 cards
appears:
– Special Service;
– Fighter Fleet;
– Mobile Infantry;
– Bureaucracy;
– Orbital Cannon.
The last 3 cards start to
glow.

17 Then you keep what’s
left unplayed and refill
your hand up to five
cards. This lets you plan
ahead.
The glowing cards
disappear.
3 card backs fly in and
turn around, revealing:
– Space Telescope;
– Corruption;
– Pandemic.
18 A Place in the Sun is a
game of intuitive player
interaction, intense
hand management and
crucial decision making.
View centers up.
There 2 Arachnid cards
appear:
– Splasher Swarm;
– Leviathan.
View centers down
back at the hand and
shows:
– Fighter Fleet;
– Space Telescope.
They start to glow.
View centers up to
Arachnid cards.
Defense icons in right
corner break apart and
cards disappear.
Fade out.

DEVELOPMENT
19 After the postapocalyptic
adventure
in Bright Future, this is
our second game.
Fade in to space.
Bright Future box
appears on the left.
A Place in the Sun box
appears on the right.
20 We have been
developing this game
for over a year now.
Animation of the Earth
orbiting the Sun for 2
cycles.
21 We have completed all
designs, rules and most
of the amazing art you
can currently see.
A spread of 2 pages of
the rules.
On them appear 4 cards
in a curved line:
– Exterminators;
– Behemoth;
– Abductor Craft;
– Weeding.
22 At this time the game
has more than two
hundred play tests and
it has proven itself to be
fun, medium weight
and deeply thematic.
Several photos of
players fall into view.
Smiley icons pop on the
faces of the players
from the top photo.

EPILOGUE
23 Intelligent life is an
isolated phenomenon
in the universe.
Space Telescope
illustration.
24 There are but a few
inhabitable planets –
and one of them is our
world.
The screen splits in
four, showing 4
illustrations, which
appear one by one:
– Space Telescope
(shrinks to fit the upper
left corner);
– Splasher Swarm;
– Hologram Projector;
– Tree of Life.
25 We have outgrown it. Fade out.
Patrol Shuttles
illustration fades in.
26 Now is the time to look
beyond.
Fade out.
Orbital Factory
illustration fades in.

27 We fight for survival. Fade out.
Acidic Pollen illustration
fades in.
28 We fight for our PLACE
IN THE SUN!
Starlit sky, the game
logo fades in.

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