HackGuard Infinite Strategies - Capture opponent's flag, hack your way to opponent's area.

program your moves to reach opponents private Network area in two-player Battle of hacker infinite strategies and today we'll show you a quick how to play or overview for hack guard infinite strategies and hello everyone it's Stella and tarent here from Maple University let's go to the classroom hack guard infinite strategies is a two-player tactical programming game set in the world of cyber security it was designed by Maru and published by kakamura games the game plays two players in 10 to 15 minutes and is off light to medium complexity hack guard infinite strategy simulates a two-player Capture the Flag exercise set in the abstract world of cyberspace players control small private networks represented by shaded areas in the corners of the board and tokens representing attempts to infiltrate their opponent's Networks players will program their movements in advance and lay barriers and protections to disrupt their opponent's advances all in the aim of being the first to capture the other player's flag to begin each round players secretly choose and sequence three of their own eight command ships planning in advance the planned movement for their tokens these provide simple movement commands advancing the token forward backward left or right relative to the orientation of the token at this point the players are simply programming the tokens do not yet move next each player draws three modification Patches from the bag placing them in a pool common to both players in turn order players go back and forth choosing a modification patch and then placing it on an empty space of the board the orientation doesn't matter these patches represent barriers the players progressively put in place to prevent infiltration of their networks or to gain more rapid access to their opponents now resolve movement starting with the first player's First Command chip then the second players and back and forth flip over the command ships and move the player's tokens in the direction shown when a token enters any modification patch resolve its effects before proceeding further in this simple example this command chip moves the token one step towards right and when it reaches here it rotates clockwise a token May encounter multiple modification patches on a single movement although it may only resolve each single patch once per turn so in this more complex example this command shift moves the token one step to its own right this modification patch moves it a further step to its own right this patch moves it two steps backward upon taking the first step it rotates 180 degrees and upon the Second Step stops here because it's resolved this patch once already this turn after all players have moved on all three command chips you'll clear the chips off and play a new round in the same way skipping the placement of modification patches once the board is full the first player to reach the opponent's private network is the winner hack guard infinite strategies is a quick to learn tactical battle for two players movement and placement of patches offers many approaches Place disruptive patches to block your opponent's movement or create efficient channels for yourself all patches have the ability to Bear help or a hindrance with the right preparation and the right token orientation players can also use their own tokens defensively using key opportunities to block their opponents from advancing all of this adds to the direct cyber security conflict you'll find in hack guard infinite strategies and that's our quick how to play of hack guard infinite strategies we are using a prototype copy of the game and so the rules and components may not be final and do check out the project page for the game we'll put a link to that in the description below and thank you so much for watching your like and comments are much appreciated subscribe to see what's coming and let us know what games you've been playing see you next time