What are you playing right now?

[Esquilax]

Just started playing Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime with Luckie, and damn, that game is fun with two players in the same room together. You have to scrabble around this little pink death star together, manning controls for various instruments to fend off alien attacks and rescue bunny people. What's really neat is how the two players settle into specific roles as they play- I'm the pilot and shield man, Luckie's the gunner who gets to play with our newly upgraded missile silo- and how neither one is particularly stuck with the boring job. Even though I'm driving, with a few creative upgrades I can turn my engine exhaust into a sort of rail gun, which both allows me to help out offensively and turns piloting into a more intensive game, as I need to rotate the engine in the direction I want to go or fire, but those are rarely the same direction. Likewise, since each of Luckie's cannons are located at different points along the ship's hull with limited firing angles, she ends up darting all around to deal with enemies as I dodge and align the shields to block incoming fire.

Anyway, it's neat, and cute, and it makes me happy to have a game I can play with my wife.