Kieron Gillen, Jared Logan and Jeeyon Shim join Cosmic Dark

Weird space horror game Cosmic Dark, which launches on Kickstarter next week, has announced famous names among its stretch goal authors.

Writers Kieron Gillan, Jadzia Axelrod and Gar Hanrahan have all signed up, along with award-winning game designers Jeeyon Shim, Alex Roberts and Grant Howitt.

Actor and streamer Ross Bryant will also write a stretch goal, as will fellow streamer Jared Logan. "Graham's approach to tabletop RPGs has been a huge influence on my game mastering", said Logan, "And all of that occult wisdom is in the design for Cosmic Dark."

Horror writers Scott Dorward and Bridgett Jeffries, best known for their work with Call of Cthulhu, will write stretch goals, along with novelist and game writer Gar Hanrahan. There are big names from electronic gaming as well, including Jon Ingold, narrative director of Inkle, and game designer and author Holly Rose Swinyard.

"I remember waking up with a mouth full of rock and breaking my own teeth trying to smash the rock with a hammer." Alex Roberts recalls from her own experiences of playing Cosmic Dark. "What a viscerally satisfying experience." 

Journalist Thomas M, radio producer Ella Watts and game designer Alyssa Griffiths round off the line-up of stretch goal authors, which was announced this week by author Graham Walmsley

Cosmic Dark takes you to the far reaches of the galaxy, where a golden wound-like object called The Glitch dominates the sky. Uniquely, the game has no character creation or set-up: you sit down at the table and start playing straight away, making characters and worlds as you go.

It launches on Kickstarter soon, so sign up now and you’ll get notified when it starts.