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Rocketball

Game ID: GID0268417
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Year
2001
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Description

Rocketball is a futuristic strategic sports game for two players. Rocketball is avalable for free at:
http://www.invisible-city.com/play/62/rocketball

The object of the game is to guide the rocketball into your opponent's goal, but you can't touch the rocketball directly. Instead, you must place vortices and other obstacles in front of the rocketball to alter its course, guiding it to your objective.

Gameplay has a strong emphasis on tile placement and modification. The game comes with many variants and alternate game versions as well.

Description

Rocketball is a futuristic strategic sports game for two players. Rocketball is avalable for free at:
http://www.invisible-city.com/play/62/rocketball

The object of the game is to guide the rocketball into your opponent's goal, but you can't touch the rocketball directly. Instead, you must place vortices and other obstacles in front of the rocketball to alter its course, guiding it to your objective.

Gameplay has a strong emphasis on tile placement and modification. The game comes with many variants and alternate game versions as well.

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Video 43F1JHZAcoE Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Discussion at 4:11 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Described as simpler and accessible for new designers
  • Interesting interplay of dice placement and gem/set collection
Cons
  • Not explicitly stated in transcript
Thematic elements
  • Light strategy, set collection
  • Gem and set collection with dice placement
  • Casual/Accessible
Comparison games
  • Splendor
  • Las Vegas
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • dice_placement — Dice dictate actions available to players.
  • Set Collection — Collect gems in sets for scoring.
  • set_collection — Collect gems in sets for scoring.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • pandemic solved a lot of the issues of why I stopped playing board games
  • it's this wonderful tight game you're basically trying to get to the moon and bring back resources
  • for everything that you want to achieve you have to consider sacrificing something
  • you don't have to be published you don't have to have signed it you don't have to be in the BGG top 100 if you have designed a game even if it's just a little thing to play with your kid you're a game designer
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