senorbaub's blog

So I recently outed myself on BGG as someone who doesn't like negotiation games (http://boardgamegeek.com/article/15756181#15756181) and, of course, after mulling this topic over for some time I thought of a game concept in which negaotiation might appeal more to me. I generally think of negotiation games being about a power struggle but what if it was instead about survival? The example I'm thinking of is a game where the players are a group of predator animals that are stalking a herd of prey animals which is made up of different species.

So I've been working on a tile-laying game idea that I had a while ago where the players are digging a mine in search of jewels. I've figured out an abstract way to find out how many jewels are in a *pocket* when it is tapped but I'm kind of stuck on where to go next. My original vision for the game involved uncovering pockets of jewels (check) and then the players deploying workers to collect them. Sort of a worker placement/pickup and deliver system. One idea is that the players would need to setup shelters in the mines before they can deploy their workers but that's about it.

After some old fashioned trial and error I have a new layout design for Labyrintheus. Now instead of the 80+ tiles needed to build the space station during setup there are 7 hex clusters. All six sides of the clusters fit with the other clusters (not just the shape but the wall pattern) so there are many layout possibilities. The teleporter and terminal rooms (which I've inked in black already) are currently marked with T and during game setup a teleporter or terminal tile would go on those spaces (one of each per cluster).