This is an Eikawa (English conversation) activity for 2 or more students in Japanese junior high school and elementary school. However, this can easily be modified for other classroom applications. Students roll dice to create a city and help the people there. If they can help all the people, their city will grow big and rich, but if they cannot help the...
Designer's comment: Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks are wonderful things. They contain little paragraphs scattered across the pages in a seemingly chaotic order, each one ending with a set of choices and numbers which take you flicking through the book to the next paragraph in your personal journey through the book. Which got me thinking. What happens...
From the publisher: The time and place is Mongolia of the 1920s. Warlords and free-roaming bandits battle for control of the countryside. Your team of researchers and explorers must race against time to recover the fossils and get them out of the dangerous warzone and back to the safety of the International Zone in Shanghai. The scenarios in Dragon Bones:...
Hike the famous 46 peaks of the Adirondack Mountains in this fast, unique flip-and-write. On your turn, choose a shape to add to your path as you move from a randomly-selected entry point to an exit, the same as everyone else. Your turns are simultaneous, but each shape is randomly paired with another activity- birdwatching, foraging, and more. Move past...
4XL is a sandbox 4X space game for 1-2 players age 12+, designed in Japan by Charles Ward from EX1ST GAMES, and is published as forever-free print and play game for the 2019 Solitaire Print and Play Contest. The art is by Szymek Dmitruk. Setting: "Welcome to The Future, stranger! Yep, that’s what they named this galaxy eons ago. Today, trade hubs and hull...
The life simulation game 6-Minute Princess uses incremental deck and stat manipulation to represent the progression of each player’s adopted daughter from age 10 to age 18. In 6-Minute Princess, each player works to raise his child to succeed in a career of her choosing. By working at various trades, each player’s daughter can focus her physical attributes...
The King approaches you, “Welcome to our small island. We need your help, hero. Our island is terrorized by monsters, please help us...” Your mission: drive away all monsters from the island! 6x6 Tales is a solo fantasy adventure game in 3 small booklets. 6x6 Tales is a free pnp game.What you need: 3 sheets of paper, 2d6, pen+correction fluid /...
Ancient civilizations used to spread stories of mighty gods who created the world and its inhabitants. Standing high above all creation, the gods ruled this world and were worshipped by the creatures living there. This fact was enjoyed so immensely by the gods that some of them decided to decided to find a new world to create and spread even more of their...
Magical course with the magic boot! 7 Leagues is a strategic and magical card game for 2 to 6 players. Round after round, create your journey by placing terrain cards in front of you and drawing them according to the weather. Create the best synergies, activate combos, and form boots to score maximum points. —description from the publisher (translated)...
ウィルスとロボの7日間 (Wirusu to Robo no Nanokakan) means '7 days of Viruses and Robos', although Bots would be closer to English use than Robos. 7 days of Viruses and Robos is a cooperative game. Players control their robots to fight against hackers. Twenty-five server cards are placed in 5x5 grid on the table. Four corners are starting location for robots where...
Inspired by a certain sabre wielding hero from 8 bit computer games of the 1980's, 8-bit Jungle Hero is an adventure game played on a map that changes throughout play. The object of the game is to navigate the labyrinthine jungle paths of the lost valley, surviving the encounters within. Adventurers must locate the lost pieces of an amulet and then make it...