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Nice Games Jam: "I’m Holding It for a Friend"

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Note: Minor hiccup with the audio recording in the first 2 minutes, so Lydia is off mic briefly but it fixes itself.

We invite Joanna May into the clubhouse again in this supersized episode to design a game about stowing illicit goods into spacecraft as it's being built!

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We mention Dogpile!, a game we made in a previous game jam.
Dogpile!

Prompt

Design a puzzle game about loading passengers and/or cargo into various spacecraft (or other transport).

Game type

Tabletop game

Player count

4 or more

Rules

The ship is a pad of paper with outline of ship (legal pad sized)
- The interior is blank, what you draw is the interior spaces
- Each turn, the freighter captain draws the modules
  - False walls, freezers, to shape what you can put in there
  - They have their own secret goal
- Each turn, the other players are smuggling things (they don’t know about what others are doing)
  - Contraband
  - Each turn they can put one thing in there or move a thing
    - Maybe you have to slide it only, you can’t pick it up after it’s been added
Each game has an ending determination and then also a scoring system
- Everyone loses if ship gets caught
Hidden role game?
- Freighter Captain
  - Makes the ship
- Contraband smuggler
  - Tries to add the most of contraband as they can
- Honest worker
  - Wants to add the most of the goal as possible
- Inspector
  - Wants to find the smuggler

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