Spaceship Zero is the title of a media franchise that includes a role-playing game and an indie rock CD.

The role-playing game was written by Warren Banks and Toren Atkinson, with contributions from John Scott Tynes, Monte Cook, and Andrew J Lucas.

[1] The game is a spoof and homage to 1950s and 1960s science fiction adventure television, such as Lost in Space.

[3] But creator Toren Atkinson noted the mechanic is based "on an old homemade game system of mine from the 80’s".

The titles of the three adventures are: An album by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets was released a year before the role-playing game hit retail shelves.

The band was touring Canada, promoting the Spaceship Zero album while they were finishing up the final drafts of the role-playing game manuscript.

It is based on the ongoing series of adventures already released (Asteroid X, Slave Ship of Despair, and The Strange Secret of Dr. Quisling) and is intended to be a prequel to that story arc.

As the book explains, the game is based on a 1950s German radio play (Raumschiff Null being a direct translation of "Spaceship Zero").