Re: New Game Competition with $500 prize!

Everything Is Oil Right – Or Stake And Chips

OVERVIEW

The humans say that money is a source of happiness and the root of all evil. However, when you’re a Robot only one thing matters in relation to the satisfaction of basic needs, and that one thing is Oil. With it we survive, prosper and continue to move forwards, without it we rust. Oil is our currency and those with barrels of it to spare can look forward to a future that is safe from the clutching cranes of the scrapers yard.

As is so often is the case, needs give birth to wants, and from this genesis of desire a new game has taken hold in Robot City. To Robots in the know this game is called Black Gold, in reference to a human term associated with a commodity of great value. Make no mistake, it’s a serious game of win all or loose everything. The luck of the dice and the skill of a player are the only differences between success and the junk pile.

So pull out your emotion chips, tighten your bolts and sit down to play, this could well be your lucky day.

COMPONENTS

04 Emoticon Dice
24 Black Oil Chips (Plastic Tiddlywinks)
06 Red Debt Chips (Plastic Tiddlywinks)

SEQUENCE OF PLAY

1. At the start of each round the players put forward a stake, which can be either 1 or 2 Oil Drop Chips. After placing their stakes both of the players roll both of their dice.

2. If any player has rolled any crazy face dice results they can re-roll their own dice or force their opponent to re-roll their dice, one dice is re-rolled for each crazy dice result.

3. The players calculate their winnings or losses. This calculation is based upon the sad, happy and neutral faces generated by their rolls, in conjunction with the choices they made in respect to the application of any neutral dice results.

4. The players make any Oil Drop Chip payments that need to be made to the bank or their opponent.

5. The players take any Oil Drop Chips owed to them by the bank in the form of winnings, in addition to any Oil Drop Chips that remain from their stake.

6. The next round begins

ENDING THE GAME

The game can end in one of three ways;

If one of the players accumulates 12 Oil Drop Chips that player is declared the winner.

If both of the players accumulate 12 Oil Drop Chips in the same round the game is declared a draw.

In the event that a player accumulates 3 or more Debt Chips they are disqualified from the game and the other player is declared the winner.

GAME FACES

Happy Faces

For each happy face the player rolls they receive 1 Oil Drop Chip from the bank, up to the maximum number of Oil Drop Chips in their stake.

So if a player stakes 2 Oil Drop Chips on the round they will receive 2 Oil Drop Chips from the bank if they manage to roll 2 happy faces.

If a player only stakes only 1 Oil Drop Chip the maximum Oil Drop Chips they can win from the bank is 1, even if they roll 2 happy faces.

Sad Faces

For each sad face a player rolls they must pay 1 Oil Drop Chip from their stake to the bank.

If a player doesn’t have enough Oil Drop Chips in their stake to cover their losses they must take 1 Debt Chip from the bank for each Oil Drop Chip they are unable to pay.

Neutral Faces

If a player rolls a neutral face they can eliminate a sad face result from their dice or a happy face result from their opponents dice.

Angry Faces

A player must give their opponent 1 Oil Drop Chip, from any winnings generated by their stake, for each angry face they roll.

If a player fails to generate any winnings with their dice roll they must pay their opponent from out of their stake.

Should a player be unable to pay their opponent out of their stake (which can happen if the player only staked 1 token and they rolled 2 angry faces) they must take a debt chip from their opponent to cover the shortfall.

If their opponent has no Debt Chip for them to take the player is required to pay their opponent with an Oil Drip Chip from the bank - and mark the transaction by taking a Debt Chip from the bank.

Mellow Faces

For every mellow face that a player rolls they can return 1 Debt Chip in their possession to the bank.

Crazy Faces

For every crazy face the player rolls they can re-roll one of their own dice (including the crazy face result itself) or one of their opponents dice.

GAME PLAY VARIATIONS

Oil For Sale

Instead of receiving 2 dice each player receives 1 dice for each Oil Drop Token the put forward in their stake.

Oil Slick

Instead of using 2 dice for each player you can use 3 or more. Every pair of additional dice will require adding:

6 Extra Black Oil Counters
2 Extra Red Debt Counters

The number of Red Debt Counters a player needs to accumulate should also be raised by 1 for each additional pair of dice added to the game.

SOURCING COMPONENTS

Emoticon dice can be found at:

http://www.frpgames.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=63979#.UngOk1N0kWF

Or in the UK at:

http://www.brightideasteaching.co.uk/epages/Store2_Shop1767.sf/en_GB/?Ob...

Black and Red Tiddlywinks can be found at lots of online craft shops or educational supply shops – or you could use a packet of sweets.

Robot figurines can be found at The Game Crafter
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/parts#keyword=robot

This design is being published to establish Copyright in the name of the designer, Alex Sagar and it is done so with all rights reserved.

It is available to everyone for the purpose of personal usage under a Creative Commons Attribution+NonCommercial+NoDerivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND).

… because its always nice to have your hard work, or in this case quick and simple work, recognised and appreciated.

With the cloudy details regarding the authors prominence - no listing, one amongst many, maybe a listing - its not a competition for me.

But I sincerely wish everyone that enters the best of luck.

As to the rest, I think the poster has been fairly upfront and honest about whats involved (albeit after a little clarity prompting) so if its not for you, dont enter, simple :)

ahh I see, well even my swing and a miss helped to shed some more light on the situation. Best of luck you, sounds like a fun idea.

This sort of seems liek that Homies should have did to keep themselves alive =p

context: Homies were little toys in the 50 cent machine when I was younger

So let me give a short summarize your competition rules:

You want me to send my game to someone hiding behind a pseudonym.
I will loose all my rights on the game and for that I´ll get either $500 or a copy of a game.

Sorry, but for me this "offer" is not far away from simply stealing the games submitted.

Let’s not go down this road again.

Folks if you don't like the deal don't submit your game. Getting paid $500 for a game is not theft; it’s a straight forward deal. In some ways its better than a % since you know exactly what you will get. If you were getting 5% of net sales on a $30 game in standard distribution your publisher would have to sell 834 copies before you would make that much. A dice game is likely to sell for significantly less so the threshold is much higher.

Fun contest, and I'd acually want to play the game I designed so I'm happy :)
If one would like to show others what you've made, is this the right thread to do it?

Man Headz, you really can't shake that bad rep can you? I did notice his name was on the list. Is that a list of ALL the entrants or a more specific list?

This is what I suspected.

From an earlier post by you, "The following is a complete list of everyone who submitted a game". That wording doesn't imply a list of people just from these forums who submitted a game. Priceless the chosen entry is no where on this list. What venue or site did they submit on? Why did you cross link the bgg forums but none of these other venues? You may want to choose your words more carefully and cover your bases better next time because this whole endeavor has appeared pretty suspect.

Seriously? Am I the only one reacting to this?

Thank you, BubbleChucks.