Our attitude towards playing Scape has always been open-minded. Once you make one custom or one change to the rules an avalanche can follow- in our case we have collected ideas from all sorts of games and combined them with Scape.

It doesn’t always work. We’ve had so many ideas and play so much that our Scape playing can be dissected into historical periods.

First there was the early years, when the kids were small and we played a version of the basic game. We got into the game when it was beginning to become hard to find. This was our hunter gatherer period I guess. We were looking for boosters and gathering what we could.

Then came the period of isolation, when we had moved away from the game rules and we were experimenting with new ideas and manipulating them to see how they affected game play. Our Early Reconstruction Period.

In the golden age we began to produce everything in great quantities. Ideas, mechanics,...