It will surprise nobody to learn that I was one of the layout editors of my high school newspaper. There’s an art to fitting everything on the page — just don’t ask me to demonstrate that art or what any good examples are. Mostly I remember working late after school to meet deadlines.

In that regard, Peter McPherson has transcribed the topic accurately. This is the third of McPherson’s published titles, after Tiny Towns and Wormholes, and it’s the strongest of the three in no small part due to a frenetic nature inspired by Vlaada Chvátil’s Galaxy Trucker. The secret to Galaxy Trucker’s success is that it, like its sister title Space Alert, grows funnier as its players fail. It’s the hobby’s equivalent of slapstick. Fit to Print follows that tradition. It’s at its best when everything is falling apart.

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