Hacktivity

2024-02-05T19:17:18-05:00

Vendor: Acolyte Cooperative Board Games (Acolyte)
Type: Board Games
Price: 67.95

Designer	Stéphane Vachon
Publisher	Acolyte Cooperative Board Games (Acolyte)
Players	1-4
Playtime	40-60 mins
Suggested Age	11 and up
Additional Info	342805/hacktivity http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/342805/hacktivity/forums/63

A new virus has been detected in cyberspace.

According to your investigation, the virus’ origin is linked to the activation of quantum generators, a new source of infinite energy.
You and your team will dive into the depths of cyberspace and attempt to break through the generators’ defenses to short-circuit them once and for all.

Game Details:
Hacktivity is a cooperative story-driven campaign card game for 1 to 4 players. Immerse yourself as one of the four unique characters.
Each turn, draw cards from your character deck and/or the virus deck. Your first goal is to use up all the cards from the virus deck.

Play a virus card on the Antivirus Interface to paralyse it.
Then, play character cards to attack and deactivate the virus. You will be able to attack the quantum generator as well or restore your Firewall.
Watch out! Be careful to not generate too much interference.
Maintain strong communications among your teammates to implement the optimal strategy.
Everyone can participate in each scenario in this inclusively designed card game.
Follow the storyline of the campaign in the Scenarios Booklet.
Open new sealed decks to reveal new cards and unlock new abilities.

The game will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end!.
Dive into cyberspace now with Hacktivity!

— description from the designer

Planetarium

2016-12-22T02:10:00-05:00

Vendor: Game Salute
Type: Board Games
Price: 44.95

Designer	Stéphane Vachon
Publisher	Game Salute
Players	1-4
Playtime	45 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	200454/planetarium http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/200454/planetarium/forums/63

Matter swirls around a new born star, coalescing on the planetoids that orbit it. Planets evolve, grow and migrate in their orbits, forming a unique solar system by the end of every game. Planetarium is a game of creation, chaos and terraforming on the grandest scale.

Players are competing to crash combinations of elements onto planets that then allow them to play cards to evolve the planets in a variety of ways, with each player looking to evolve planets in the system to suit their own secret endgame goals.

On a turn a player will firstly move a matter or planet token in a clockwise direction around the star. The board is mapped with a series of lines, tracing orbits around the star, and it is along these lines that the tokens are moved. If a matter token moves onto a space occupied by planet token then the matter token is placed on the player's mat (on the respective planet). In the same way, planets can also be moved onto matter tokens, placing the matter tokens on the player's mat.

In the second part of a turn a player can play Evolution cards from their hand at the cost of the matter tokens they have collected on their player mat (some cards have other special requirements to play). If a player plays a card, they score the cards points and check to see if their card has changed the state of the planet from hostile to habitable by checking the total habitable and hostile points played to the planet (some end game goals require planets to be hostile or habitable). The player may then draw a card from one of three decks, Low Evolution (cards that score less points but require less matter to play), High Evolution (cards that score more and are harder to play), and Final Evolution (cards that can only be played on a player's final turn).

The thematics of the game have been developed with an eye on the science, led by a scientist working on NASA's search for life on Mars. Evolution cards thematically include all kinds of planetary phenomenon, from asteroid impacts, atmospheric effects, to geological events. Final Evolution cards mark the relatively stable state a planet is in at the end of the solar system's development and include classifications for the final planets such as Hot Jupiter or an uninhabitable frozen dwarf planet.

The game consists of a beautiful game board with handfuls of matter tokens, approximately 36 Evolution cards and 16 Final Evolution cards (all with unique space art and flavor), player mats, and player and score markers.

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