Sunday, September 29, 2013

PnP Deconstruction


Fourtune's Conlony - Soojin Lee 

Goal of the game
Lead the colonists to the scattered orbits or planet and let them find mines and built farms.

Core Mechanic
This game is played with a board and five dice for each player. The five eight-sided dice that each player gets represent attempts to colonize the system. Some assembly is required. The dice have different symbols on each face. Some show different resources you might send to the colony planet:

o Rocket
o Outpost
o Colonist
o Void – represent the colony ship getting lost along the way.
o Chance cubes – give you a bonus roll
The game consists of a series of rounds in which players try to start colonies in the system. The round ends when one of the players has all their dice on the board. Each player then scores one point for each colonist they have on the board. A new round begins, and play continues until one player scores 10 points.

Space of the game

This game has discrete two-dimensional space – player throws their dice on the boundaries of the game board, and there is no specific required position. There are three boundaries, the planet, orbits, and outside of the game board could consider another boundary.

Objects, Attributes, States
The Dice is a dominant object and with a “location” attribute with a 3 states,

o “on the planet”


o “on the orbit”

 o “on the outside of game board”

And “faces” attribute and 5 states,
o Rocket
o Outpost
o Colonist
o Void
o Chance cubes



Operative Actions 
o Throwing dice on the planet with each faces
o Throwing dice on the orbit with each faces
o Throwing dice on the outside of game board

Resultant Actions
o Have a Rocket in system and supply miner colonist in the orbits.
o Have an Outpost and supply farmer colonist in the planet.
o Gain a colonist point if player has right combination with faces.

o Remove the dice and return it to player’s hand
o Roll another dice
o Leave it on its location

Any notes about rules you notice
o Operation rule – throwing dice

Skills players learn
o Physical skill - Success at the game depends on your skill at pitching the dice!
o Mental skill – Observe opponent’s dice on the game board and knocking out one of the dice if he has completed combination.