Winter Rabbit

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Economic system — a game about pre-columbian economic system.
• Resource Management — you'll need to prepare your cherokee village for winter.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Card Drafting — Players have a hand of task cards and play one each season.
• hidden worker placement — Players draw villager tokens from a bag, look at them, and place them face down on locations. Once enough workers are on a location, resources are produced. If a 'rabbit' token is drawn, it steals resources.
• Semi-Cooperative — Players share a communal goal (preparing for winter) but also compete for individual victory points.
• Set Collection — Points are gained by completing tasks, building out the village, and telling stories.
• Worker pool — Villager tokens are drawn from a bag, a core mechanic for determining worker placement outcomes.

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Quotes (from this video)

• The goal of the game is basically that we're working together to prepare our village for winter.
• In Winter rabbit I'm looking at sort of cultural ideas... in the sense that like we may be looking at stories that are fictional but they tell something about a particular time period a particular culture and a particular set of values within that culture.
• I want to make sure that we hired Cherokee artists to do the art because I wanted to make sure that everything was as authentic as possible.
• It felt very validating because I have done a lot of background research and a lot of work to bring this game up to where it was and presenting that to our cultural consultant and having them go through and go actually this is all really good.
• The Forex framework is very much built on a sort of colonialist capitalist kind of idea so the you know uh what are they uh explore expand uh exploit exterminate like very hard core colonialist kind of ideas.
• I want people to see an art style that is not Southwestern... but also they can look at it and go yeah this is this is this is Native American art but it's different.
• I want it to be a solid entry in the hobby game market... but then also something that people within the culture can see and appreciate.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Bag Building — Players draw tokens from a shared bag, which contains player tokens and rabbit tokens, influencing resource generation and end-of-round triggers.
• Cooperative loss condition — Players collectively lose if certain provision tracks are not maxed out by the end of the game.
• Resource Management — Players gather resources like wood, medicine, and crops, and must manage storage space, as excess resources go to the rabbit.
• Set Collection — Players collect provision cards and culture tiles, which contribute to scoring and special abilities.
• Tile Placement — Players can purchase and place village, natural, and storage tiles, which can grant points, special abilities, or alter gameplay.
• Worker Placement — Players draw tokens from a bag, which can be their own, another player's, or a rabbit token, and place them on resource spots.

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Quotes (from this video)

• the zenobia award is a design award put together by various folks across the board game industry and is targeted towards marginalized designers and also topics for games
• in designing this game i had the intention of creating an alternative to the problematic 4x explore expand exploit exterminate game model
• instead of a 4x it's a 4c game
• the economics of it is such a very very different thing that i've not really i don't think i've ever seen in a game before where you have this sort of brinkmanship piggybacking thing on these various different resources
• it's a very very simple game you are either just you know pulling a token out of the bag and putting on a resource spot which may or may not trigger that resource to develop or you're purchasing a card or a tile or one of the culture tiles or something like that
• it's very very quick and snappy

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