Game Info
Year
1985
Players
2-4
Age
8+
Playtime
45 min
Publisher
Waddingtons
Collection
Ratings
Creator Score
Mechanic profile
Waiting on more creator content
Vibe profile
Waiting on more creator content
Description
Explorers race through a prehistoric valley to collect treasure while dodging dinosaurs and an erupting volcano
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Adam in Wales - Board Game Design Analysis at 5:57 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Was a big hit
- Richly thematic world
- Minimal rules overhead
- Allows a wealth of different scenarios
Cons
- Never got a US release
Thematic elements
- Survival
- Dinosaur era
Comparison games
- Survive
- Escape from Atlantis
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Draw a card, and do what it says.
- Card draw — Draw a card, and do what it says.
- roll and move — As basic as roll a dice to move.
- Roll/Spin to Move — As basic as roll a dice to move.
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Quotes (from this video)
- When I was a child, the board game industry was also dominated by huge hulking giants, epic, violent, plastic adventures aimed squarely at children.
- Unlike the dinosaurs before them, this entire genre of games which felt like everything to children like me went extinct.
- What they shared wasn't mechanisms, it was ambition. They were huge, packed with toyetic miniatures and terrain and aimed squarely at kids.
- Meaningful decisions. And this is where the genre struggles.
- The reality is that epic plastic adventure games for kids represented a very specific cultural moment, and one which we can never get back.
- Grab a block of amber, extract a little dino DNA, and rewild the board game ecosystem with new epic adventures for kids.
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Adam in Wales - Board Game Design Analysis at 9:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Really fun
- Created really wild stories and outcomes
- Very dramatic and exciting and cinematic
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Dinosaurs
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card draw — Drawing a card from a deck and then doing what it said.
- roll and move — Every turn you would start by rolling a dice, moving your adventurers across the board.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Dice are not the answer.
- Once we introduce this degree of randomness into a game, then all strategic decisions and tactical decisions cease to matter.
- Dice are the garlic of the game design world.
- A board game design is only as good as the decisions that a player makes on their turn.
- Building
- In a strategy game, we want choices and those choices have to mean something and they have to be fun and and sort of delicious little puzzles for us to solve.
- So, I I I wonder what you made of this video. Let me know what you think of the video that I've made now, the video that I made back then and the video that I'm making today.
- Was it interesting to watch me watching it? Was it interesting to hear my updated views on it, or was it distracting?
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