Cometcaper Space Board Game Template
by ShuffleKit
A printable space board game for kids with 40 space fact cards: race your rocket past the planets to a comet, and put space history in order by year. It is a whole roll-and-move game to make your own, in a bright picture-book look: a game board at 8 × 8 inches where a trail of glowing spaces runs from a launch pad on Earth past the Moon, Mars, the asteroid belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune to the comet; poker-size star cards in three kinds on one back, where each Mission card prints a real milestone over its year (from Galileo's telescope in 1610 to the first landing near the Moon's south pole) and Boost and Asteroid cards send a rocket ahead or back; a rocket standee for each of four players; a six-sided number die; a score sheet for ticking off the planets; and a poker tuck box laid out flat on its dieline. Every fact and year is text you can retype or import from a spreadsheet, and the starry sky and the box cover are pictures you can swap. Comes with 54 sample cards and the rules to play it as it ships.
Boards
- Designs
- 1
- Sample boards
- 1
- Board size
- Square Board — 8 × 8 in
- 203.2 × 203.2 mm · 2400 × 2400 px at 300 DPI
- Board fields
- Name
- Artwork
- Subtitle
Cards
- Designs
- 4
- Sample cards
- 54
- Card size
- Poker — 2.5 × 3.5 in
- 63.5 × 88.9 mm · 750 × 1050 px at 300 DPI
- Card fields
- Name
- Description
- Year
- Steps
- Card Type
Tokens
- Designs
- 1
- Sample tokens
- 4
- Token size
- Medium Standee — 0.75 × 1.68 in
- 19.1 × 42.7 mm · 225 × 504 px at 300 DPI
- Token fields
- Name
- Kind
Dice
- Designs
- 6
- Sample dice
- 1
- Die size
- D6 — 0.6 × 0.6 in
- 15.2 × 15.2 mm · 180 × 180 px at 300 DPI
- Die fields
- Name
Score Pads
- Designs
- 1
- Sample score pads
- 1
- Score Pad size
- Small Score Pad — 3.5 × 5.5 in
- 88.9 × 139.7 mm · 1050 × 1650 px at 300 DPI
- Score Pad fields
- Name
- Subtitle
Boxes
- Designs
- 1
- Sample boxes
- 1
- Box size
- Poker Tuck Box, 54 cards — 7.75 × 6.5 in
- 196.9 × 165.1 mm · 2325 × 1950 px at 300 DPI
- Box fields
- Name
- Artwork
- Subtitle
- Description
Adding a template copies its one board design, four card designs, one token design, six die designs, one score pad design, one box design, their fields, one sample board, 54 sample cards, four sample tokens, one sample die, one sample score pad and one sample box into one project of your own, in one go. Your copy is yours, and later changes by the author never touch it.
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What’s in Cometcaper Space Board Game Template
Boards
One board design, square board size, 8 × 8 in: Rocket Trail Board.
The boards live in a sheet of their own, one row each, with a column for every field their designs read: Name, Artwork and Subtitle. One row arrives filled in as sample board.
Cards
Four card designs, poker size, 2.5 × 3.5 in: Mission Card, Boost Card, Asteroid Card and Star Card Back.
The cards live in a sheet of their own, one row each, with a column for every field their designs read: Name, Description, Year, Steps and Card Type. 54 rows arrive filled in as sample cards.
Tokens
One token design, medium standee size, 0.75 × 1.68 in: Rocket Standee.
The tokens live in a sheet of their own, one row each, with a column for every field their designs read: Name and Kind. Four rows arrive filled in as sample tokens.
Dice
Six die designs, d6 size, 0.6 × 0.6 in: Number Die, Face 1, Number Die, Face 2, Number Die, Face 3, Number Die, Face 4, Number Die, Face 5 and Number Die, Face 6.
The dice live in a sheet of their own, one row each, with a column for every field their designs read: Name. One row arrives filled in as sample die.
Score Pads
One score pad design, small score pad size, 3.5 × 5.5 in: Score Sheet.
The score pads live in a sheet of their own, one row each, with a column for every field their designs read: Name and Subtitle. One row arrives filled in as sample score pad.
Boxes
One box design, poker tuck box, 54 cards size, 7.75 × 6.5 in: Tuck Box.
The boxes live in a sheet of their own, one row each, with a column for every field their designs read: Name, Artwork, Subtitle and Description. One row arrives filled in as sample box.
Read the 54 sample cards
| Name | Description | Year | Steps | Card Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter's Moons | Galileo turns his new telescope to Jupiter and finds four moons going around it. | 1610 | Mission | |
| Halley's Comet | A comet comes back on Christmas Day, just as Edmond Halley said it would. Now it carries his name. | 1758 | Mission | |
| A New Planet | William Herschel spots Uranus with a telescope he built himself, the first planet ever found with one. | 1781 | Mission | |
| Neptune Found | Astronomers find Neptune right where calculations said a hidden planet was tugging on Uranus. | 1846 | Mission | |
| Liquid-Fuel Rocket | Robert Goddard launches the first rocket to burn liquid fuel. Its flight lasts two and a half seconds. | 1926 | Mission | |
| Pluto | A faint new world is spotted far beyond Neptune, and an 11-year-old girl in England picks its name: Pluto. | 1930 | Mission | |
| Sputnik 1 | The first satellite goes into orbit: a shiny metal ball with four long antennas that beeps as it circles Earth. | 1957 | Mission | |
| Far Side Photos | A space probe sends home the first photos of the far side of the Moon, the side we never see from Earth. | 1959 | Mission | |
| First Person in Space | Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space, flying once around Earth in his capsule, Vostok 1. | 1961 | Mission | |
| Visiting Venus | For the first time, a spacecraft flies past another planet. It finds out that Venus is scorching hot. | 1962 | Mission | |
| First Woman in Space | Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space, circling Earth 48 times in almost three days. | 1963 | Mission | |
| First Spacewalk | Alexei Leonov makes the first spacewalk, floating outside his spacecraft on a tether for about 12 minutes. | 1965 | Mission | |
| Soft Landing | A robot probe makes the first soft landing on the Moon and sends back pictures of its dusty ground. | 1966 | Mission | |
| Earthrise | The first crew to fly around the Moon photographs Earth rising over the Moon's gray horizon. | 1968 | Mission | |
| Moonwalk | Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first people ever to walk on the Moon. | 1969 | Mission | |
| Landing on Venus | A probe lands on Venus and radios home for 23 minutes: the first signal from the ground of another planet. | 1970 | Mission | |
| Moon Buggy | For the first time, astronauts drive a car on the Moon: a little electric buggy with wire-mesh wheels. | 1971 | Mission | |
| Jupiter Flyby | Pioneer 10 is the first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt. Then it flies past Jupiter and takes its picture. | 1973 | Mission | |
| Handshake in Orbit | An American and a Soviet spacecraft join up in orbit, and the two crews shake hands through the hatch. | 1975 | Mission | |
| Viking on Mars | Viking 1 lands on Mars and sends home the first clear photos of its red and rocky ground. | 1976 | Mission | |
| Golden Records | Two Voyager probes set off for the outer planets, each carrying a golden record of sounds from Earth. | 1977 | Mission | |
| Volcanoes on Io | Voyager 1 spots volcanoes erupting on Io, one of Jupiter's moons: the first ever seen beyond Earth. | 1979 | Mission | |
| Space Shuttle | The space shuttle Columbia blasts off for the first time. It's a spaceship built to fly again and again. | 1981 | Mission | |
| Sally Ride | Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, flying on a space shuttle with a crew of five. | 1983 | Mission | |
| Uranus Up Close | Voyager 2 becomes the only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus, and finds 10 new moons going around it. | 1986 | Mission | |
| Neptune Up Close | Voyager 2 flies past Neptune and finds a giant storm on it, which is named the Great Dark Spot. | 1989 | Mission | |
| Hubble | The Hubble Space Telescope goes into orbit, high above the air that blurs the view from the ground. | 1990 | Mission | |
| Comet Crash | Pieces of a broken comet crash into Jupiter one by one, leaving dark marks that last for months. | 1994 | Mission | |
| A Faraway Planet | Astronomers find the first planet circling a star like our Sun. It's a giant world called 51 Pegasi b. | 1995 | Mission | |
| Sojourner | Sojourner, a rover the size of a microwave oven, rolls onto Mars: the first wheeled robot on another planet. | 1997 | Mission | |
| Home in Orbit | The first crew moves into the International Space Station, and people have lived up there ever since. | 2000 | Mission | |
| Saturn's Rings | Cassini is the first spacecraft to go into orbit around Saturn, flying through a gap in its rings. | 2004 | Mission | |
| Landing on Titan | The Huygens probe parachutes down onto Titan, Saturn's biggest moon: the farthest landing ever made. | 2005 | Mission | |
| Dwarf Planet | Astronomers agree on a rule for what counts as a planet, and Pluto becomes a dwarf planet instead. | 2006 | Mission | |
| Landing on a Comet | The Philae lander touches down on a comet and bounces twice before it stops: the first comet landing. | 2014 | Mission | |
| Pluto's Heart | New Horizons flies past Pluto and spots a huge plain of ice shaped like a heart on its surface. | 2015 | Mission | |
| Far Side Landing | Chang'e 4 makes the first landing on the far side of the Moon, and its little rover rolls off to look around. | 2019 | Mission | |
| Helicopter on Mars | A tiny helicopter called Ingenuity lifts off on Mars, making the first powered flight on another planet. | 2021 | Mission | |
| Asteroid Nudge | The DART spacecraft crashes into a small asteroid on purpose to change its path: a test of how to protect Earth. | 2022 | Mission | |
| Moon's South Pole | India's Chandrayaan-3 lands near the south pole of the Moon, where no spacecraft had landed before. | 2023 | Mission | |
| Solar Sail | A sail thinner than a soap bubble catches the gentle push of sunlight. | 3 | Boost | |
| Slingshot | You swing close around a planet, and its gravity flings you on faster. | 3 | Boost | |
| Mission Control | The team on the ground radios through a quicker route for you. | 3 | Boost | |
| Booster Rockets | Two extra rockets strapped to your sides roar into life. | 2 | Boost | |
| Refueled | A tanker ship meets you in orbit and fills up your fuel tank. | 2 | Boost | |
| All Systems Go | Every light on your control panel blinks green. Full speed! | 2 | Boost | |
| Second Stage | Your first stage drops away, and the next engine fires up. | 2 | Boost | |
| Ion Engine | Its soft blue glow keeps pushing you on, a little faster every day. | 1 | Boost | |
| Big Rock | A rock as big as a mountain drifts across your path. Go the long way around. | -3 | Asteroid | |
| Asteroid Field | Tumbling rocks on every side! Steer slowly back the way you came. | -2 | Asteroid | |
| Spinning Boulder | A boulder tumbles end over end toward you. Dodge back, fast! | -2 | Asteroid | |
| Rubble Cloud | A cloud of rubble from a cracked asteroid hides the stars ahead. | -2 | Asteroid | |
| Space Junk | A bolt from an old satellite dings your window. Stop for repairs. | -1 | Asteroid | |
| Pebble Storm | Space pebbles rattle off your rocket like hail on a tin roof. | -1 | Asteroid |
Printing the boards, cards, tokens, dice, score pads and boxes
Boards: Square Board, 8 × 8 in, 203.2 × 203.2 mm, 2400 × 2400 pixels at 300 DPI. With an eighth of an inch of bleed on every edge, a board goes out as 2475 × 2475.
Cards: Poker, 2.5 × 3.5 in, 63.5 × 88.9 mm, 750 × 1050 pixels at 300 DPI. With an eighth of an inch of bleed on every edge, a card goes out as 825 × 1125.
Tokens: Medium Standee, 0.75 × 1.68 in, 19.1 × 42.7 mm, 225 × 504 pixels at 300 DPI. With an eighth of an inch of bleed on every edge, a token goes out as 300 × 579.
Dice: D6, 0.6 × 0.6 in, 15.2 × 15.2 mm, 180 × 180 pixels at 300 DPI. With an eighth of an inch of bleed on every edge, a die goes out as 255 × 255.
Score Pads: Small Score Pad, 3.5 × 5.5 in, 88.9 × 139.7 mm, 1050 × 1650 pixels at 300 DPI. With an eighth of an inch of bleed on every edge, a score pad goes out as 1125 × 1725.
Boxes: Poker Tuck Box, 54 cards, 7.75 × 6.5 in, 196.9 × 165.1 mm, 2325 × 1950 pixels at 300 DPI. With an eighth of an inch of bleed on every edge, a box goes out as 2400 × 2025.
On the Hobby plan, export a print-ready PDF with bleed and cut lines, each part at its own size. PNG and SVG come out at the same sizes, which is what Tabletop Simulator wants. On Indie, send the game to a print-on-demand partner through Print & Ship. The export adds the bleed: let the artwork run into it and keep the text inside the cut line.
Questions about Cometcaper Space Board Game Template
Everything you need to know before getting started.
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What happens when I add Cometcaper Space Board Game Template to a project?
The one board design, four card designs, one token design, six die designs, one score pad design, one box design, their fields, one sample board, 54 sample cards, four sample tokens, one sample die, one sample score pad and one sample box are copied into one project of yours, with the fields already pointed at the designs: the boards in a collection of their own, the cards under All cards, the tokens in a collection of their own, the dice in a collection of their own, the score pads in a collection of their own and the boxes in a collection of their own. Nothing stays linked to this page afterwards, so the author's later edits never reach your copy.
What size does Cometcaper Space Board Game Template print at?
The boards are Square Board size, 8 × 8 in, 203.2 × 203.2 mm, 2400 × 2400 pixels at 300 DPI. The cards are Poker size, 2.5 × 3.5 in, 63.5 × 88.9 mm, 750 × 1050 pixels at 300 DPI. The tokens are Medium Standee size, 0.75 × 1.68 in, 19.1 × 42.7 mm, 225 × 504 pixels at 300 DPI. The dice are D6 size, 0.6 × 0.6 in, 15.2 × 15.2 mm, 180 × 180 pixels at 300 DPI. The score pads are Small Score Pad size, 3.5 × 5.5 in, 88.9 × 139.7 mm, 1050 × 1650 pixels at 300 DPI. The boxes are Poker Tuck Box, 54 cards size, 7.75 × 6.5 in, 196.9 × 165.1 mm, 2325 × 1950 pixels at 300 DPI. Those are the numbers to hand a print shop, and each part exports at its own size.
Is Cometcaper Space Board Game Template free?
Yes. Adding it, editing it, filling it with your own cards and playtesting it online are all free. Exporting print files starts on the Hobby plan, and Print & Ship through The Game Crafter is on Indie. No template sits behind a paid plan.
Can I change the designs?
Yes. They land in your project as ordinary layouts, so you can drag an element somewhere else, put your own art behind the frame, restyle the type or rename a field. Edit a design once and every board or card or token or die or score pad or box drawn on it follows.
Can I use my own boards, cards, tokens, dice, score pads and boxes instead of the samples?
Yes. The boards, the cards, the tokens, the dice, the score pads and the boxes each have a sheet, and the samples are rows in them, there to be overwritten. Type over them, add rows of your own, or bring a CSV and match its headers to the fields.
Can I sell a game made with Cometcaper Space Board Game Template?
Yes. This one is ours, and you keep commercial rights to what you build from it, crowdfunding and retail included.
Ready to build your card game?
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