Galaxy Conquest

Overview
Galaxy Conquest is a game where two player wage in a space war against each other. Compete to win planets. One of the players will take control of the Terran of Hammer Wing Faction and the other Kryak of Thunder Faction.

Objective
The goal of Galaxy Conquest is to be the first to win 3 planets by smartly placing your unit tokens on the planets, and utilising the abilities you acquired.

Designer note: This game is inspired by Campaign Manager board game. Also, we apologize for not releasing board game in a year (that is a loooong time). Hopefully you enjoy the game!

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Galaxy Conquest v1.0
Galaxy Conquest Basic v1.0 (Brazilian-Portuguese)
Galaxy Conquest Deluxe v1.0 (Brazilian-Portuguese)
Galaxy Conquest Tuckbox
Galaxy Conquest v1.0 (French)

Planet Run

You are Captain Xavier Mertz pilot of the ship Yamato. One day while cruising your ship was hit by asteroids and you landed on Planet Run. You need to find the resources to fix your ship while trying to survive from dying of hunger!

Planet Run is a solo worker placement game where you becomes an astronaut exploring the planet to find resources to fix your ship. You need to survive by hunting for food. Food you eat will determine how much energy dice you will get on the next turn. You may construct gadget to help you in your task. On turn 15, you must launch your ship!

Designer note: We were trying to emulate the game Terraria with a lot of scenario based game but somehow like the usual it got simplified. We change the theme because building castle isn't really as fun as fixing the ship and fly!

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Planet Run version 1.0
Planet Run (Brazil-Portuguese version)
Planet Run (Russian version)

Escape of the Dead java version

Aaron Woodard created a java version of Escape of the Dead. Thanks to him no printing required just go to the link below!

Escape of the Dead java version!

p/s: Reminder to fans and friends. Just because we posted this, it doesn't mean we are going digital :)

Oh My Lair!

You are a dungeon lord and you are drinking your favourite cavern coffee when suddenly your spy informs you that a hero wants to slay you. It’s that time of the year where heroes will come out and try to destroy you and your lair. Prepare for the attack!

Oh My Lair is a solo game where you control your minion to conquer region, collect resources to summon creatures, and defeat the hero before he reaches you.

Designer Note: This game is inspired by What Did I Do To Deserve This, My Lord? Although it is simplified to the point of doesn't resemble the inspired game at all. Anyway just enjoy the game!

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Oh My Lair v1.1
Oh My Lair v2.0
Oh My Lair (Spanish version)
Oh My Lair (Russian version)
Oh My Lair (French version)

8-Bit Inc.

In the 80’s, Tendino, a game company, created revolutionery game console called Tendino Entertainment System (TES). Your company 8-Bit Inc. is one of the many company trying to make the best game for the system and compete them in the Game Prix Award (GPA).

Designer's note: Since I saw and played the Game Dev Story I really wanted to make a boardgame that makes game. After month and months of forming ideas, creating prototype, testing, finally we've made a similar simulation but not as details as Game Dev Story hence the title 8-Bit Inc. because you are a manager of 8-Bit Inc. and you create a game just for the Tendino Entertainment System (TES). On the last playtesting we added the Game Prix Award so you would have a goal in the game. 

HAPPY PLAYING AND HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! 2012 WILL BE GOOD, GREAT AND FUN FOR EVERYONE :D

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8-Bit Inc game tricoloured version

8-bit Inc game coloured version

8-bit Inc game (Italian version)
8-bit Inc game (Spanish version)

Emergency Earth

Earth was attacked before by aliens but never this big. Citizen of earth now depends on your team, the one and only Earth Defense Force (EDF), the one who saves earth an hour ago from zombie attack to once again defend earth from danger. Emergency Earth is a solo game in which you took in charge to defend earth from danger.

Designer note: This is one of the game promised from the previous post. Actually this game is done later after the one that we will to post in January 2012 (little spoiler, the game is about a game company making games!). Anyway, when Jason created this game it was an orc invading game similar in the line of Age of War -or is it. Later after some discussion we decided to make it alien invading earth, while the Earth Defense Force is actually army from the 50's. 

Last but not least MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE! This would be our gift to every player and reader of this blog for Christmas :D

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Emergency Earth

Emergency Earth (Brazil-Portuguese version)

Emergency Earth (Espanol version)

Horde of the Dead version 2

You are Giraffe the hero of this game and you arrived in a small inn. Suddenly during the night something was attacking the inn. It’s a horde of ZOMBIE WARRIORS!!!. Nobody survive except you and the inn keeper’s daughter, Mari-chan. Survive the game until the timeline finishes.

In version 2:
The combat uses dice which introduce the element of random. 
Reward system is changed for the better called combo gold. 
The heroes now share their hit points. 
The heroes also share action point to do their actions.
This time around the zombie is now a zombie warrior, they will attack the house if there is no hero present in the room they occupied.
and hopefully this one is more streamline than the previous one.

You can download the game below
Horde of the Dead version 2
Horde of the Dead version 2.1 (Spanish)

Giant Battle

In this age of power and greed, every faction in the world are battling it out to find out who is better king among all kings. Giant Battle is a 2 player game. In the game each player controls a faction which you used to kill leader of opposing faction to win the game. You need 3 six sided dice and a cutting tool to play the game.

Designer note: I really want the title to be 'Mini Battle' but my brother are against the title, hence the title 'Giant Battle'. The game is inspired by Summoner Wars. The cover is actually a copy of the Make You Fortress game (because I love Adventure Planning Service/Bouken!)

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Giant Battle Colour Version
Giant Battle Black and White Version
Giant Battle (Italian version)
Giant Battle Fan Expansion
Giant Battle (French version)
Giant Battle Fan Expansion (French version)
Giant Battle Fan Expansion 2

The Mini Quest

The Mini Quest is a simple fantasy adventure game for 2-3 players. Players take on a role of an adventurer roaming the island of Seapoot (See-Put) solving quest to unlock the secret to defeat THE BOSS!

Players will roam in a hex-based board. The board consisted of 3 different areas; Mountain, Forest and Desert. Each area will have its own line of monster that you will face. Players will battle the monsters to gain gold to buy some accessories - preparing for the Boss.

Dowload the game here!
The Mini Quest v1.2
The Mini Quest Expansion #1 (print it on an A5)
The Mini Quest (coloured version)
The Mini Quest Expansion #2
The Mini Quest with Expansions #1 and #2 (French version)
The Mini Quest Expansion #3 for 4 to 5 players
The Mini Quest Expansion #3 for 4 to 5 players (French version)

Ninja vs Robot

Ninja vs Robot is a fast playing solo game for ages 7+. Player take on a role of a ninja who is the only to witness the coming of the invader, the robots. The robots will do anything to destroy the castle. It is up to you now to race to the castle to alarm the king for the coming of the robots. Player will battle with all kinds of robots to reach the castle, so until you reach the castle winning a battle does not mean you win the game.

The game uses a simple rules to let player to be easily immerse into the Robot invading twisted oriental world. Player will attack using a unique dice mechanic that will enable player to make combos to destroy an army of robots. The game also uses a Ninja Point system that lets player to change the battle into their own style.

You only need 2 six sided-dice and a cutting tool.

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Escape of the Dead

You are a survivor of a zombie apocalypse and you're stuck on a house with a useless car and hordes of zombies attacking from the lawn. But wait, you found a tool enough to fix the car to escape the hordes of zombies. ARE YOU READY FOR IT?

In the game you are trying to fix the car while defending yourself against hordes of zombies. You're given 4 Action dice per turn, distribute between 3 sections of the game (either by shooting zombie, fixing the barricade and/or fixing the car). Roll for success on each section. Any zombie that survived will attack the barricade. When you successfully killed 10 zombies you will be rewarded with power-up. You lose when your barricade is down (i.e barricade's hp equals zero). You win when the car is fixed 100%.

You need 4 six sided-dice, a pencil and an eraser for book keeping.

Download the game here
EOTD version 1.00
EOTD version 1.02
EOTD portable version

Escape of the Dead in other language
EOTD (Español)
EOTD (Català)
EOTD cut out version (Hungarian)
EOTD pencil version (Hungarian)
EOTD (French)
EOTD (Japanese)
EOTD (Chinese)
EOTD (Portuguese-Brazilian)

Horde of the Dead

You are Giraffe the hero of this game and you arrived in a small inn. Suddenly during the night something was attacking the inn. It’s a horde of ZOMBIES!!!. Nobody survive except you and the inn keeper’s daughter, Mari-chan. Survive the game in 3 nights without anyone dying.

This game is inspired by the genre tower of defense, where a horde of zombie, comes and attack the inn wave by wave. You job is to control Giraffe, Mari-chan and occasionally Dogmeat by moving them through the inn, defending against the zombies, set barricade, buy stuff to upgrade and protecting Mari-chan while surviving yourself.

You need at least 1 six sided-die (the more the faster the game goes), 4 counters(different kind or colour) in which 1 of them represent zombie (which you need at least 7), a pencil and an eraser to jot down equipment, hp, bp and so on.

Download the game here
Download version 1.1 here

NOTE: You can also play the version 2 of the game below
Horde of the Dead version 2

Village Run

Banana village is having its annual run and there is a new challenger competing in town. And that challenger is YOU. But you are not the only one who hunger for the run's cup.

Village Run is a 2 or more player game where each player is runner competing for the village run's cup. Players will smartly manage their speed during the game using a new and unique game engine designed for the game to become the run's champion.

All you need to play:
* 1 six sided die
* 2 tokens for each player (1 for the runner and 1 for speed token)
* and the FREE and PRINTABLE Board(including therules).

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Village Run (English Version)
Village Run (Russian Version)
Village Run (French Version)

This is one made by Jason Sondoh and illustrate by Robertson Sondoh Jr

True Soccer Hero

True Soccer Hero is a two-player fantasy soccer board game of clever management of players on the field, tight score difference, and an always fun easy-to-teach game of soccer. Managers(the players) must carefully plan their tactic on getting pass through the defence and eventually score a goal. The game take about 15+ minutes of intense and exciting game soccer.

True Soccer Hero is a print-and-play game in which managers taking turns roll the dice and based on the given result managers make a clever strategy that can get pass through the opposition goal line.

All you need to play True Soccer Hero is:

1d6 (or 1 die)
The game components
The rule book
The board which is the field
True Soccer Hero (Italian version)
True Soccer Hero (Dutch version)

Twenty One Turn Hero

The world is in turmoil! THE SORCERER discovered a 21 turn spell that will destroy the world! YOU as a hero need to defeat the sorcerer! Good luck hero!

This is a game for single player where you becomes the unfortunate hero that need to defeat the sorcerer that wants to destroy the world with his 21 turn spell!



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The Nasi Lemak Stand

Its recess time at Adam High School. Apparently, some student doesn’t really like the school canteen’s food. So, instead of buying them there, they go outside of school and buy uncle Gram’s delicious nasi lemak (na-see le-mak, Malay delicacy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasi_lemak) which is located right outside of the school compound, and it is very popular with uncle Gram special topping (i.e the extra egg, beef and squid). This is where the game comes in. You are to play as uncle Gram and collect as many points as possible before recess time is over, remember the faster you serve your customer, the more point you get. Oh yeah it’s a solo game.



you can download the game rules here!
and the board game and counter here!

The Raider Attack Banana Village Minigame

The Raiders are attacking Banana village again! This time the villager are not going to hold back!

This is a game for 2 players where one player control the Raiders while the other controls the villagers. Villagers set traps and save routes, while Raiders maneuver through the map, both players collect points according to their strategy and player with the highest points is the winner.



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Greetings from another member of Experimental Playground!

Hi. I'm Daniel. I'm a gamer and have a passion of creating new ideas, and one of them is coming up with new game design. Most of the time, these flash of inspirations will either end up in as a material for an RPG campaign or it gets forgotten (which tend to happen because I rarely keep track on them). So it was a godsend when Rob decided to start this blog. Finally, there's a place for me to pour my ideas into and share it with everyone, especially those that have the same passion as me.

My Homebrew Games

Let's get to the meat of things - homebrew games. This blog is about having fun with the boardgames that we create, and that's what I intend to do. I have three games currently in early development. They are:

1. Battle Mechanica - A diceless tabletop wargame set in a steampunk world.
   
2. Dancing Shadows: St. Hallow - A diceless boardgame with elements of mystery and horror.
   
3. Tales of Medda-Loren - A story-driven RPG boardgame that aims to be light on mechanics and heavy on storytelling.
   

I'm currently working on Battle Mechanica, and I will explain briefly the workings of the game in my next post. Stay tuned!