Nice Games Jam: "Grog"

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Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast!

Lydia, Stephen, and Mark

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5 days ago

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The podcast where nice gamedevs talk gaming and game development. Nice!

Nice Games Jam: "Grog"

Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast!

5 days ago

Nice Games Jam: "Grog"

This week, Lydia provides all the fun facts about living on a boat while your nice hosts develop a card game based around scurvy management!

Hoyle's Official Book of Games
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Wikipedia

Prompt

Create a pirate themed game about food and scurvy management.

Game type

Card game

Player count

2-4

Materials

Event deck

Resource Deck

Setup

Shuffle the event deck and the resource deck separately. Deal 5 cards from the resource deck to each player.

Rules

Card game
- Set making
- Need to create as many sets as you can to create grog, while preventing vermin from being in your hand
- These resources will keep you going in phase 2 when pulling from port of call / event cards
- Whoever is able to travel farthest (successfully draw the most port of call / event cards) wins
Beneficial food
- Grog (face cards)
  - Rum - Jack
  - Sugar - Queen
  - Water - King
  - Limes - Ace
- Salt meat/fish
  - Pork or Cod (Hearts)
  - Salt (Diamonds)
- Hard tack (Clubs)
- Suet (Spades) (added to meat or hard tack to enhance it)
Vermin (clogs your hand and could cause problems in events)
- Weevil
- Maggots
- Rats
Rules
- Each turn you have one action. You can either:
  - Draw a card
  - Play a complete set
- After a certain number of cards (10 as default), you all go to sail and have ports of call events
  - Draw an event card each turn
Ports of call / Events? - you get a point for every port you successfully make it to. Certain cards when “won” enter your stack and give you extra points or mechanical advantage
- Windfall of resources
  - Everyone draws 5 cards and makes stacks
- Ship cat
  - The cat joins the most rat-infested ship (removes all rats from hand)
  - OR spend the most salt meat to attract it to your ship
- Trade with each other
  - Draw 3 cards and give 1 card from hand to the player on your left. Make stacks
- Injured shipmate
  - Spend water and salt from your hand
  - Spend maggots from your hand
- Threat of scurvy
  - Spend grog
- Weevil infestation!
  - Lose a hard tack for every weevil in your hand. Discard those cards from your hand and stacks(?)