Sci-Fi Survivalv3
The galaxy is unstable. The jobs are dangerous.
A narrative sci-fi TTRPG about a crew, their fragile ship, risky jobs, debt, reputation, faction pressure, and consequences that carry forward.
Original TTRPGs | Digital Tools | Playable Systems
Our mission: to create bold original games for strange new worlds.
We build worlds worth exploring, systems worth playing, and tabletop experiences that carry players to a whole new level.
Game LinesCurrent Apogee TitlesChoose a game line, open current files, and jump directly into resources or future support tools.
Game PageAwake in the BlackA crew, a ship, a job, and the consequences of pushing too far when stopping is worse.
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Between Jobs, Between Worlds
The crew is the heart of Awake in the Black: talking through the next move, trading jokes, nursing coffee, and facing tomorrow's risks together. Between runs and between worlds, shipboard life is where the setting becomes personal.
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Build the Crew
Define characters by role, approach, trait, problem, and pressure.
02
Build the Ship
The ship is a shared character, asset, problem, and record of survival.
03
Take the Job
Contracts create pressure, profit, faction exposure, and hard trade-offs.
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Carry Consequences
Success and failure both reshape the situation and follow the crew forward.
Crew Survival
The table lives through coordinated risk, role tension, and shared survival decisions.
Ship-First Play
The ship takes damage, gains history, strains under pressure, and matters mechanically.
Persistent Consequence
Every job changes reputation, resources, heat, enemies, obligations, or the ship itself.
Start Here
First Session Kit
Start with the Player Handbook, use the Crew Creation Guide to define the table’s shared identity, then keep the Core Rulebook close once the job goes sideways.
Public Google Drive files open in a new tab.
When It Goes Loud
Hold the Line
Not every job stays manageable. When the hull shakes, alarms hit, and the corridor turns into a kill zone, the crew survives by discipline, grit, and covering each other under pressure.
Shipboard Details
Tools of the Trade
Selected visual details from the void: survival gear, cockpit comforts, and the equipment that stays close when things go wrong.
Pressure Gear
Helmets, seals, and patched-together kit are part identity marker and part survival promise.
Field Essentials
When the job gets ugly, compact medkits and practical gear matter more than polish or comfort.
Cockpit Rituals
Even out in the black, the crew keeps small habits alive: battered mugs, routine checks, and a place to breathe.
Awake FilesAwake in the Black ResourcesCore book, player handbook, crew guide, sheets, and supporting files for table setup.
Awake AI ToolsAwake in the Black AI-Assisted ToolsFuture public GPT-linked utilities for crew setup, ship creation, contracts, NPCs, and table prep.
Game PageCultists & ClassroomsEducators as unlikely heroes, school supplies as survival tools, and literal monsters loose on campus.
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Faculty on the Front Line
When the hallways collapse into chaos, teachers and staff become the campus response team—protecting students, improvising under pressure, and pushing back against the monsters loose on school grounds.
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Read Player Materials
Start with the Player Handbook or the core rulebook.
02
Create Staff
Build a campus employee using Personas, roles, and attributes.
03
Set the Bell
Use Session Zero: Before the First Bell to define tone and boundaries.
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Survive Campus
Investigate, improvise, protect students, and stop the ritual.
School Horror-Comedy
Familiar routines collide with supernatural danger, broken systems, and educator absurdity.
Educators as Heroes
Teachers and staff solve impossible problems with exhausted competence and improvised tools.
Concrete Mystery
Zombies are zombies. Demons are demons. Clues should produce action, not confusion.
Campus Artifacts
Objects from the District
Ordinary school objects become clues, survival tools, and recurring symbols inside the nightmare.
Faculty Lounge Fuel
Coffee, stress, and strange signs—sometimes the first clue is sitting in the mug beside the copier.
Keys to the Campus
Master keys, restricted doors, and access to the rooms where the district would rather nobody look too closely.
Books and Bad Apples
Lesson plans, old records, and half-forgotten texts help piece together what the school has been hiding.
Start Here
First Session Kit
Begin with the Player Handbook, print a character sheet, and keep the core rulebook close once the campus starts going sideways.
Public Google Drive files open in a new tab.
C&C FilesCultists & Classrooms ResourcesCore book, player handbook, character sheet, and table materials for getting a school horror-comedy session running.
C&C AI ToolsCultists & Classrooms AI-Assisted ToolsFuture public GPT-linked utilities for Personas, district events, hazards, recovery tables, and table preparation.
Future StorefrontStoreFuture commercial releases are planned through DriveThruRPG. Current files remain available in each game section.
The Apogee Games store is not active yet. Future commercial releases are planned through DriveThruRPG.
Store Status
Current SalesNot Active
Current AccessFree Game Sections
Future StorefrontDriveThruRPG
Payment BackendNot Hosted Here
PublisherAbout Apogee GamesThe publisher story and design purpose behind Apogee Games.
Publisher
About Apogee Games
Apogee Games is an independent tabletop roleplaying publisher created by Brandon Sligh.
Its games are built around focused premises, readable rules, strong table procedures, and digital tools that help groups get playing faster.
The goal is to make games that know exactly what they are, support the people running them, and create memorable sessions through pressure, consequence, and player choice.
ContactContactQuestions, feedback, public contact, and newsletter options will live here when enabled.
Contact
Contact
Questions, playtest feedback, support requests, and future newsletter links will be handled here once public contact is enabled.
Current Contact Status
Public contact link coming soon.
LegalLegal and LicensesCopyright, attribution, and license notes are preserved with each game line and public release package.
Each game maintains its own copyright, attribution, and license notes inside the relevant rulebook and support files.
Cultists & Classrooms
Cultists & Classrooms includes third-party license information in its rulebook and legal resources. Consult the current license file before redistribution, publication, or commercial use.
Awake in the Black
Awake in the Black is an original Apogee Games TTRPG created by Brandon Sligh. Full copyright, attribution, and licensing notes should remain with the current rulebook and any public release package.
ChangelogLatest UpdatesVersion and site development notes for the Apogee Games web hub.
Collapse State Indicator Pass
Added styled state indicators to the Collapse/Expand All controls so visitors can see whether the related sections are expanded, collapsed, or partially open.
Default Collapse and Toggle Controls
Kept Game Lines and Publisher expanded by default while leaving the remaining main sections collapsed, and replaced the View AI Tools buttons with Collapse/Expand All controls for cleaner navigation.
Full Section Collapse System
Extended the collapsible interface to the primary page sections and game-level subsections, including Current Titles, Awake in the Black, Cultists & Classrooms, Publisher, Contact, resource lists, and AI-assisted tool lists.
Collapsible Utility Sections
Made Store, Legal, and Changelog collapsible and collapsed by default, adding styled disclosure controls that fit the Apogee interface language while reducing scroll length for visitors.
Awake Support Art Swap
Replaced the secondary Awake in the Black support collage with a new shipboard action scene, giving the section a stronger contrast between crew downtime at the top and high-pressure action further down the page.
Awake Hero Art Tone Update
Replaced the Awake featured team action shot with a crew lounge scene that better emphasizes the human side of the game: shipboard life, camaraderie, and the lived-in texture of a crew trying to survive one more job.
Awake Hero Art Swap
Replaced the top Awake in the Black featured collage with a stronger single team action shot to give the section a more immediate, high-pressure first impression while keeping the supporting Awake artwork intact.
Awake Art Integration Pass
Integrated selected Awake in the Black artwork into the page, adding a featured crew collage, a shipboard work panel, and a curated set of void-life spot illustrations so the Awake section now presents its identity with the same level of visual support as Cultists & Classrooms.
Awake Public Link Update
Updated the Awake in the Black Core Rulebook link and added public links for the Player Handbook and Crew Creation Guide. Updated the Awake Start Here flow and resource list to make these current player-facing files easier to find.
Art Integration and Publishing-Readiness Pass
Integrated selected Cultists & Classrooms artwork into the game section, added featured art and district artifact panels, created Start Here onboarding callouts for both games, added social preview metadata and preview asset support, labeled external file links more clearly, and expanded the package with the new bundled site artwork.
Hero Supporting Line Update
Updated the homepage supporting mission line to describe tabletop experiences that carry players to a whole new level.
Visual Flare and World Transition Pass
Added the scroll-activated mission trajectory, sticky section indicator, transmission-lock entry animation, game logo reveal treatment, Awake starfield parallax, Cultists & Classrooms containment-breach edges, C&C faculty stamp styling, stronger button micro-interactions, improved coming-soon treatment, status ribbons, and the Launch Console hero readout.
Hero Mission Copy Pass
Replaced the prior designer-facing homepage tagline and brief with a clearer public-facing mission statement: bold original games for strange new worlds, with worlds worth exploring and systems worth playing.
Card Action Alignment Pass
Standardized resource, game, and AI tool card layouts so Open File, Coming Soon, GPT Link Coming Soon, Resources, and Details buttons align cleanly regardless of description or metadata length.
Public Link Integration Pass
Added public Google Drive links for the provided Awake in the Black and Cultists & Classrooms rulebooks, sheets, and current PDF resources. Digital sheets and game-specific GPTs remain clearly marked as coming soon.
Readability and Descriptive Text Pass
Increased the size and visual weight of game taglines, section descriptions, game-card summaries, resource descriptions, and AI tool descriptions for better denotation, attention, and readability.
Brand Typography Alignment
Aligned headings, subheadings, labels, game cards, resource cards, AI tool cards, and modal titles with their associated brand identity: Apogee uses a Radley-style serif, Awake in the Black uses a Montserrat-style sci-fi sans, and Cultists & Classrooms uses Graduate-style school lettering.
First Production Refactor
Externalized CSS, JavaScript, logos, favicons, and site assets into a cleaner package structure. Preserved the approved layout, game-specific resource organization, embedded section flow, and single-page publisher hub behavior.
Header and Publisher Section Order Pass
Removed the header version label and menu button, enlarged the Apogee Games header wordmark to align with the icon, and reorganized the post-store sections into Publisher, Contact, Legal, and Changelog order.
Game Section Layout and Copy Pass
Increased the Apogee glow intensity, restored the game-section banner layout, updated game and resource copy to speak directly to players, and kept the Awake transition as a clean black starfield.
Awake Atmosphere Cleanup
Removed the blue and gold glow from the Awake in the Black transition so the section resolves into a cleaner black starfield before shifting into the Cultists & Classrooms crimson atmosphere.
Background Reversion Pass
Restored the v0.1.5 scroll-background atmosphere while preserving the v0.1.6 typography and layout updates.
Typography, Game Header, and Atmosphere Pass
Increased secondary label visibility, switched body text to a console-style face, aligned heading fonts by brand and game line, removed the publisher roadmap placeholder, and made the Apogee-to-Awake transition more dramatic.
Public Resource and AI Tool Cleanup
Removed proprietary GM instruction files, relocated game tools into their relevant game sections, balanced game logo sizing, and simplified the About section around the publisher story.
Embedded Logo Reliability Pass
Embedded optimized logo and favicon assets directly into the single index page so brand marks render reliably in standalone preview and hosted use.
Game-Section Resource Reorganization
Moved resources under their relevant game sections, replaced CSS logo approximations with optimized image assets, added favicon support, and kept the single-page structure.
Atmospheric Scroll Pass
Added smooth background transitions across Apogee, Awake, Cultists, and publisher support sections.
Logo Visibility Pass
Improved the Apogee Games logo treatment and dark-background contrast.
Static MVP Created
Built the first single-page publisher hub with games, resources, tools, store placeholder, updates, about, legal, and contact sections.