Week 3 - Testing Zombie Game

Concept and Storyline
A territorial acquisition game based on Zombies versus Humans.

Rules (Copied from Joseph Chan's blog)

1. Requires 4 players in a 2 vs 2 team game.
2. Each time starts at opposite ends of the board.
3. Initial roll to determine which team/player starts first and then alternating turns by team.
4. If players land on a blue space they can pick up a card. These cards provide a roll bonus to be used when rolling against the other team.
5. If a player stops on a territory they capture it for their team.(if players roll higher than the moves required to land on territory player may choose to continue without capturing).
6. Each territory controlled provides an accumulative move roll bonus for that team.
7. Attacking a territory - If the opposing team currently owns that territory then the attacking player must roll against a player from the defending team to see who claims the territory, with the highest roll winning(Bonus roll cards may be used here. Defending team gets a bonus to their roll as given by the territory. If attacking player loses that player must go back to the closest territory controlled by their team.
8. Attacking a player - If two players clash paths those two players must roll against each other to see who claims the defending position. Highest roll wins(Bonus roll cards may be used). Losing player must move back to closest territory that their team controls.
9. Game ends when one team controls all spaces.

Goal
Team must gain control of all territories.

Core Game Mechanic

Roll dice and move to unoccupied territory or territory occupied by your enemies.

 

Challenge

Based on dice roll use strategy to move to unoccupied territory or challenge enemies for occupied territory or collect bonus cards to help when battling for territory.

 

Overall Impression

Game seemed complex at first due to number of rules but once a couple of rounds were played became easier to understand. Due to time constraints did not really have time to evaluate but found game moderately interesting although human/zombie team format seemed to limit player dynamics.

 

My Rating

4 out of 10 stars.