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Aprèm' jeu avec ma chérie… hop c'est parti pour la conquête de Mars ! Madame, à la tête de Valley Trust s'est orienté vers une bio-industrie lourde mais face à elle ma terrible Manutech, après un petit essai nucléaire peu fructueux à massivement investit dans le développement de la faune et de la flore au point que la moitié de la planète a finie couverte de forêts ! Égalité parfaite 53~53 entre les deux géant… mais départagé par la production titanesque de Manutech
#terraformingmars #dice

#gameDesign #gameDev insight:

backerkit.com/c/projects/shado is launching a #TTRPG based on the #terraformingMars #boardGame

It focuses on building infrastructure, building ecosystems (even if in a techno-solutionist way) and generational play, seeing the changes over decades and centuries. I would love to use it as a base for #solarpunk #games .

So WHY does the quickstart feature combat rules, but not social conflict rules?

Can we really imagine, focus on nothing else than shooting each other?

BackerKitTerraforming Mars - the official TTRPGBased on the award-winning board game Terraforming Mars and officially licensed by FryxGames, Terraforming Mars the tabletop role-playing game takes the board game experience to the next level.

Linds and I played #TerraformingMars AE in the hotel last night. We've played this plenty but it just felt very long and I never had enough money to do anything. Then, after Lindsey basically terraformed all of Mars alone, I still won because I had a lot of cards with added Victory Points.

We realized this morning, we never awarded TR as we terraformed during the game! I was literally stuck on 5 the majority of game and it never dawned on me. Crazy to miss an integral rule after so many plays

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@hhavrilesky I had to look up what "symmetric" meant in board game parlance, and came across this:

boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/865

So a game like #TerraformingMars would be strategic, engine building, (debatably) intuitive, but it's not symmetric, because you start as a corporation with distinct resources and potentially different advantages (though I think the starter pack of corporations are identical.)

I also think it's beautiful, thematic and engrossing, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

BoardGameGeekWhat exactly is a symmetric game? | Everything that sucks! And some things that don't.