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Sunday, September 4, 2022

Board of a game I'm working on

My wife is super talented. She can play pretty much any instrument you can think of, and is really good at art. She also knows a lot about biology. 


Here's what I have so far of the board of a game I'm working on:


The setting is Ancient Greece. The top 4 yellow squares are to put 4 random Greek Gods cards. If you use an action to worship a god, then you put a token on that god card and each one gives you unique special abilities. You can also use your turn to move two of your meeples on the map from hex to hex. Each hex gives a certain type of resource, and you can also use your turn to have two areas produce.

Hold up, wait a second, you don't know what areas are yet. You see those center spaces on the board that are brown/purple/blue? Before the game starts you put tiles on them randomly.

An example of three of the five double-sided tiles.

When you do, it looks like the picture below. The rivers make up the seven areas. And unlike Scythe, you can walk over rivers. The only reason they're there is to divide the board into areas that produce. So anyway, on you turn you pick two of the seven areas and all hexes on them produce. (Yes, for you and your opponents, which is why you want to both spread out as well as defend your territory.)

You'll notice the seven areas, six with four hexes 
and one with three hexes (in the center).

These tile placements are random, so the boards are never the same from game to game, but due to the symmetry of the rivers on the tiles and whatnot the areas will always be the same sizes and shapes from game to game.