In the world of 7TV, Rick Rhodes and the Pirates of Lunar City is a 1940s retro-sci-fi cinematic serial following in the footsteps of the classic Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials, with a bit of King of the Rocketmen - and perhaps a slight hint towards a proto-Star Wars and later pulp sci-fi escapades.
In reality, Lunar City is a collection of miniatures and a skirmish wargames campaign pack. Some of the artwork and sundry designs I produced for the game:
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| Retro Rocketeer Gal |
Crash landing on in the volcanic valleys of Venus can the heroic Radium Raiders escape the foul beastmen and fearsome Magma Apes? Only YOU can decide in this exciting two player tabletop battle skirmish narrative wargame!
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| Argh! It's the Ice Pirates |
In the Ice Fortress of the Iago - The Pirate King sits on his cosmic throne, surrounded by his Brooklyn accented Ice Pirate lackeys, who've just finished hastily raiding the wardrobe dept. before going on guard duty. Dare YOU face the Pirate Kings challenge to fight on the floating gladitorial disk and win the fabled Horn of Saturn?
The ice pirates have been stunningly brought to life in miniature by Andrew May. I also put together moodboards and concept sketches for various scenery items, including Iago's Throne, which have been produced as STL files for 3D printing.
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| Ice Throne of Saturn Concept Sketches |
And alongside that, I also did 5 isometric maps for each of the linked scenarios, which appear on the reverse of an A3 print of Ste Brotherstones magnificent cover art:
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| Poster! |
And finally, in the never ending war against naked gamers (ugh, dread the thought!) the logotype I designed for the scenario is emblazoned on a cool black t-shirt. The perfect thing to wear to your local Retro Sci-Fi convention movie night, while rocking out at your favourite Queen tribute bands gig or just saving the universe.
Despite never having really flexed my Retro-Scifi muscles, I have a great fondness for those old black and white serials - repeated constantly on BBC2 in my childhood it seemed, and of course Mike Hodges Flash Gordon, and the Filmation serial that broadcast around the same time, so it was great project to work on.
Rick Rhodes and the Pirates of Luna City for 7TV Pulp, from Crooked Dice Game Design Studio funding on Kickstarter now.
