The Urban Calculus (TUC) is a wargame and a playable, competitive systems model. It allows players to examine and consider some of the linkages between what is happening in the urban battle(s) and what the effects are on the civilians, infrastructure, society (of all combatants), global opinion and government will. Initially 4 scenarios have been developed...
Urban-Ops: the cardgame sees two squads of soldiers/mercenaries fighting in an urban environment (namely, an industrial city called Horizon) , using all sorts of equipment (from sniper rifles, to short barrel shotguns; from GPS to jetpacks; from assault rifles, to medical kits, and so on) to try to win the fight. The game has a very simple mechanic: after...
Urbanizing the Card is a print-and-play game that aims to be a city-building game base. The game is meant to be part of a business card, an example of a minimalist serious game about urban planning. General rules: Roll a D6 die (Start). Choose the building (B, the row (R), or the column (C). The die result must match one of these (B, R or C). Fill the...
Urgence (or emergency in English) is a small easy to learn game for kids that let them solve emergencies around the different district of Montreal (Canada). 4 district cards are turned with an emergency card associated with it. Players use their police cars, firefighters or ambulance to solve the emergencies. When an emergencies is solved, players gain...
Work on a day like today? No way. Time to call in sick. Hopefully no one else had the same idea. Use All of Your Sick Days is simple. There's no turns and you need to play a card with the next day or same worker currently on top of the discard pile. Or you could play a card face down as a doctor's note, making it wild. But if go to play at the same time as...
An easy to play free DTP wargame based on a battle between British and Zulu forces. A quite unusual subject for a wargame, a battle in 1879 during the war between the British and the Zulus, but featuring some very simple and common mechanisms. Historically, the Zulus benefited from the imprudence of the British leaders to win the Usuthu battle. Thanks to...
"Solo card, dice & record keeping game. Based on the old Intellivision Video Game. Build up your Island Paradise." The only components required for play are the card deck, writing paper, a pencil and six-sided dice. The player starts with 100 Gold Bars and a population of 1000. A turn consists of thirteen phases: Census Phase, Taxes Phase, Industry Phase...
Utopia Engine: Beast Hunter is a sequel to Utopia Engine and uses the same basic mechanism of exploring a land, rolling dice, and using the results to resolve events on the game sheet. In the game, you play as Mason the Hunter, a fugitive who has been falsely accused of murder. You are trying to gain refuge in a village for protection but the village...
The year is 2340. Just as in all of history, conquest is at the heart of mankind. Enslave or become a slave is the future. You are in charge of breaking through the wall of your enemy’s city to allow the entry of your battalion to take over. Organic Titazium metal (O37T2y) has been used in the construction of all walls during this time period, which makes...
V1RUS: Roll & Write is a strategic city-building game set in a near-future world threatened by a rapidly spreading viral outbreak. Players take on the role of city planners working to develop safe, functional districts while the virus unpredictably spreads through different zones of the map. The theme focuses on balancing growth and safety, where every new...
Summer is here, so why not take a three-day trip to some of the most famous Greek islands? Explore, go hiking, admire the landscape and take photos, or simply rest and relax. Vacations to Greek Islands is a competitive roll and write, print and play game. In Vacations to Greek Islands, players plan their route and visit different locations on a Greek...
A new virus emerges, threatening society as we know it. Help the world fight the deadly virus by finding the best possible vaccine! Each turn you pick one of the face up Vaccine Tiles and add it to your Science Lab (player board). When completing a row or a column in your Science Lab, you make breakthroughs and can complete objectives on Research Cards to...