This is good news.

Yeah, the current organization of Debtrunner is terrible, but then again, I don't really expect someone else to try running it at this point.

I like the focus of it being like a TV show. I think you still need to hone in on the theme a bit more, though. The list of genre options is a little too broad, and the moves and other rules can't possibly support all of them unless there's something a little more concrete than just "cinema" over top. What is it about sci-fi TV shows that you want to highlight?

Differentiating the source of special moves is a neat idea, but (aside from me wanting everything in alphabetical order if possible) the acronym NIP is too close to a slur against Japanese people for me to feel comfortable with it. Not intentional, obviously, but it's kinda hard to unsee on my end.

Well, originally it was about doing 3 different takes on sci-fi using the same basic rules, with a few basic moves swapped around. Black Seas of Infinity is essentially Evil of the Stars, but in a social context (not isolated) and with the PCs being farther along the badass cyberpunk spectrum. It's supposed tohave 4 different optional setting add-ons (like 1 for social networking rules, 1 for psychic powers, 1 for building machines, and 1 for eschatonic symbiotes), but I've only got stuff written for the first of those and I dunno how well they work.

And Debtrunner is basically Traveller, but focused more on the map-building rules and speculative trade rules from original Traveller, which I wrote more complicated versions of. Uses mostly the same basic moves, the vantage thing, plus the social networking rules, but no stress or injury tracks. It kind of moves farther away from the other two the more I work on it.

I disagree. In my experience (of games), people are more willing to check out a playtest that has nice art or layout. And even if they ARE disappointed by the rules, they are more likely to follow it through its development and be willing to help. I would probably even say that no single thing gets more eyes on an rpg product than art does (unless maybe you can say it's D&D).

Ha! I'm pretty sure you missed a lot of important things about this game because I didn't actually explain them!

Sounds like you had fun anyway, though! The mirror universe is a good one. Pretty brutal, too! Interesting use of Insider, I should think about that one.

Deny the existence of something your expertise tells you is impossible was directly inspired by Sam Neill in Event Horizon. Even after he starts seeing things, when it happens to somebody else, he's like "that's impossible, you're crazy."

Evil of the Stars is a sci-fi horror game about an isolated expedition that discovers something with the potential to destroy humanity as we know it. Kinda like The Thing, Event Horizon, the Alien movies, or even Prince of Darkness.

It's related to an older game of mine called Black Seas of Infinity, which you can read about in the Eschaton sub-forum on this very site (currently in the swamp). Recently, I finished enough of the bits and pieces that this game needs so I decided to finish a rough first draft. It's not complete, but whatever. I finished the stuff that I wanted to finish. I think.

Anyway, you are welcome to look at it.  THIS IS LINK RIGHT HERE