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- 2. SteelGaming William Belime Game Designer Shakti Sahni Game Artist
- 3. Constraints Chosen: Random Board Semi-information Imposed: 1-4 players +1 AI Playable in the transports (car/plane/train/boat)
- 4. Pitch Space scientists have found a new Exoplanet with, apparently, intelligent life on it. They have sent the best explorers from all over the world to explore this planet. But, on arriving at the destination, they had crashed their spaceship. They are stuck on the planet and they have to wait till the AI repairs the ship. But unfortunately, as it was damaged during the crash, it became bipolar and random. The Explorers have to fulfill their mission and survive until the AI repaired the ship to come back on Earth.
- 5. The main pieces 1 magnetic hexagonal board with two playable faces The board contains 5 non removable hexagons: They will be the start of the players Small magnetic hexagons which will cover the board’s faces 5 player magnetic pawns + 1 Cards
- 6. Boards illustration Upper world board Face up Underground world board Face down
- 7. The hexagons pieces These small hexagons have 2 faces: The fog Non playable face The playable faces The route (nothing special, just a route) Enemies (fight) Mighty resources (to get the sympathies of the aliens) The craftable materials Civilization (Alien Capital) Cave (only in place where we find the resources and in quantities) The Holy Artifact
- 8. Goals Explorer: Reach and sympathize with more Alien civilizations before the others, until the ship is repaired. AI/Drone: Counter the Explorers to come back on Earth before the ship is repaired. The drone has to kill them 5 times each.
- 9. Gameplay Mechanisms : Actions Points An hexagonal board and movement to give an exploration feeling The players use Action Points (AP) To reveal pieces of the board, moving, digging (when block by a wall), fighting, crafting and picking stuffs. Each actions have a higher or lower price. The fight price depends on the enemy AP + attack stats > defense stats of the monster If not Attack points of the monster – (AP + attack stats) = Damages
- 10. Gameplay Mechanisms During the Pregame, the board is built randomly to make a different map each time When the Holy Artifact is found, the player who has it, can reverse the board and all the players go to Underworld: Stronger enemies New civilizations AP more expensive The game finishes after a certain number of turn 50 basically
- 11. Gameplay Mechanisms (Aliens) The Aliens give different and random missions to gain their sympathies. Only known by the player who gets into the Alien’s Capital Written on cards Could be: Bring the skin of an animal Bring a mighty resource/artifact Kill another player Stealthy or not Some will give single or multiple difficult missions if you had sympathies with another civilization which they hate.
- 12. Gameplay Mechanisms : Explorers Stats All of the Explorers are different : Stats Health Defense Agility Move Stats Diplomacy - Health Defense Agility Diplomacy
- 13. Gameplay Mechanisms : Explorers capacities Capacities Chosen from 2 available by the player Written on the explorer’s character card: Diplomacy Exploration Thief/Lucky Weapons type And others Increases the player’s stats secretly
- 14. Gameplay Mechanisms : Explorers actions Use these action points to: Move Reveal hexagons Pick resources For Aliens To craft Attack Dig Craft They have 15 action points to use If the Explorer move without revealing and it’s an enemy, their Attack and Defense gets subtracted.
- 15. Gameplay Mechanisms : AI Random Random: can be nice / can be bad Nice Bonuses to the Explorers Reveals 3 hexagons at one range of the explorers Up of 1 or 2 stats Heal Give free craft resources Increase the ship’s repairing
- 16. Gameplay Mechanisms AI Random Bad Malus to the explorers Decrease one stat Increase the strength of aliens enemies Re put the fog on the 5 last revealed hexagons Instant kill an explorer or all of them Decrease the repairing of 1 or more Increase the stats of the drone Activated after 5 turns Play after the drone’s turn
- 17. Gameplay Mechanisms : playable AI Can be a playable character Drone Use action points to: Pop enemies Move items Put a fog behind him against action points Transform the map itself Not with an explorer on the hexagon Sometimes supported by the AI Turn starts after all the explorer played 1 turn
- 18. Target Open to a large public For Sci-Fi/adventure likers Since 12 years old players With a certain tactical logic
- 19. Business case Pawns 1.50 € the five / 127 rupees ~ 0.16 € one / 13 rupees Board ~ 10 € / 849 rupees Hexagons ~ 0.10 € one / 8.50 rupees ~ 16 € / 1 358 rupees Cards ~ 0.10 € one / 9 rupees ~ 5 € all / 424 rupees Salary 1121.93 € x 5 months = 5 609.65 one person / 476 114 rupees Total of 32.5 € for the production factory / 2 758.50 rupees 5642.15 € with one developer salary / 478 872 rupees
- 20. Unique Selling Points A random board which is never the same A RPG construction A different gameplay in each game Can be a cooperative or competitive gameplay Depending how the player choose to play Counter the IA or win the game by himself
- 21. Walkthrough
- 22. Pregame The players built randomly the boards by putting the face down of the small hexagons They shuffle the cards pack by pack Then they choose one Explorer or the Drone. Put their character to their respawn point The players place the last pawn on the countdown square 0 The American Explorer starts The game runs clockwise
- 23. One turn Explorer Use his action points to Move Attack Dig Pick stuff Reveal hexagons Craft Make contact with a civilization and gain a new mission Or finish the mission that they gave to him Using the Holy Artifact (if he has) X 4 (each player)
- 24. One turn AI Drone first Popping enemies Moving items (they have to be shown) Put a fog behind him Transforming the map itself Fight Move Sometimes supported by the AI After the drone draw one card and apply the effect written on the card End of the turn
- 25. Thank you for your attention