In Ugg-Tect, first released as Aargh!Tect, players work in teams to construct fabulous – well, let's say "functional" – structures out of materials lying around them. All the players are cavemen, however, so you have only rough blocks with which to build and you can communicate only through primitive gestures and sounds. Ugungu!
When you're the architect on your team, you see a building plan that shows how the blocks should be placed in the finished design. To get the builders on your team to do the heavy work, you must tell them which piece to use – through gestures like stomping your feet or raising your arms above your head – and what to do with it. "Manungu" tells them to put the piece at the front of the structure, while "Manungu manungu" means to put it at the back. Moving pieces left or right, up or down, laying them down or rotating them – lots of details need to be conveyed with only a few commands and your trusty (inflatable) spiked club. When you give a command and your team performs well, tap them on the head once to show approval. Hit them twice, though, and they know they messed up and need to pay better attention. I said, "Karungu!!" (stomp stomp stomp)
The fastest – and most accurate – architect/building team will carry the day...
- Actually quite funny
- Not too bad
- caveman construction
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Communication Barrier — Players use a 'caveman language' to instruct others.
- Cooperative Building — Players try to get people to build abstract structures.
- Physical interaction — Players can 'bash' others with inflatable clubs if they make mistakes.
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Quotes (from this video)
- this is a very odd you are going look so good Drewry dick thing
- everybody's got an alien ability and it's yeah you know you know what cause making careful is don't you
- throwing your comrades under the bus when you need to
- this is an early early early kids going by the Games Workshop and it even comes with a silly songs tape which we have actually listened to
- If you haven't played dr. war you need to play this
- It's a bit like something doing a wet fart
- It's a wonderful two-player game where one person is trying to fend off the other person from broken into their stronghold
- It's really weird but it's it's so good it's so good so good
- you've got the shifting maze going around moving as far as you can in the maze and then you'll be taken at all and replacing at all with an avatar
- so Legos part free I would carry on a little bit but my knees I can't because I'm quite old