Edition #1 Submissions
On this page you fill find info, and sometimes files, to learn more and play some of the submissions of the ConSim Game Jam’s first edition.
Link the the final stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxbJU2cujTQ
Note: all these games were designed in 72 hours, so they might be a bit rough around the edges!
Vijayanagara: City of Victory – A CGJ Submission from Team Vultuross (Winner)
The game design sought to use the coin model to show the disintegration of the Delhi Sultanate during the 14th Century. The Sultanate by this point had reached its height and was suffering from Mongol invasions, internal rebellions and overextension.
COIN recycled: Gandhi
Team members: Saverio Spagnolie, Cory Graham, Aman Matthews, and Mathieu Johnson
In The Shadows – A CGJ Submission from Team Dolphath (finalist)
In the Shadows is a two player card-driven ConSim about the desperate struggle of the French Resistance against the occupying Nazi and collaborating Vichy forces between January 1943 and June 1944.
COIN recycled: Falling Sky
Team Members: Joe Schmidt, Ban Bullock, Chris Bennett
Pendragon: Boudica’s Revolt – A CGJ Submission from Team Chimewing (finalist)
This is a two-player COIN-like game – a scenario expansion of sorts to Pendragon. Together with the board, it uses many COIN design features – the basic pattern of play, Event cards, the asymmetric player actions and victory conditions. The game also uses the Initiative Track from Colonial Twilight.
COIN Recycled: Pendragon
Team Members: Maurice Suckling and Daniel Burt
All Villages Burning – A CGJ Submission from Team Fluffopotamus
All Villages Burning is a board game about the defense of a fantasy medieval Finland against a marauding monster known as Balavaho. It adapts GMT Games’ “COIN Series” system, with the intent to introduce the series to families. In All Villages Burning, three players each take the role of one of the three factions: the heroes of the realm (Lilliana, Michelle, and Royce), the Army, or the Villagers. During the game, the marauding Balavaho will travel across the land, destroying forts and villages, and killing anyone foolish enough to cross its path. Players use actions (both major and minor) as well as movement abilities unique to each faction to further their goals. The heroes of the realm seek to complete quests and battle Balavaho to gain honor. The Army knows that the only way to stop the creature to establish military control across the land and build up its defenses. And the Villagers do their best to stay alive, avoiding Balavaho’s fury at all costs.
COIN recycled: All Bridges Burning
Team Members: Peyton, Hope, Jackson and David Thompson
De Gaullic Revolt Against Hitler – A CGJ Submission from Team Venoraffe
De Gaullic Revolt Against Hitler is a simple two player COIN game which uses the turn structure borrowed from Colonial Twilight by Brian Train. You need a copy of Falling Sky by Andrew and Volko Ruhnke. The game uses just the map and some of the wooden bits. You need to print new event cards, player aids and overlay with Initiative Track. Also you need a deck of regular playing poker cards.
COIN Recycled: Falling Sky
Team Members: Petr and Daniel Mojžíš
The Farthest Plain – A CGJ Submission from Team Charnea
The Farthest Plain is a four person COIN game in which Players take on the roles of the colony’s corporate government, interplanetary authority, worker’s revolt, or a non-violent ecological movement competing to control the colony’s destiny.
COIN Recycled: A Distant Plain
Team Members: Garrett Monaghan and Braden Paynter
No Tan Libre – A CGJ Submission from Team Chimoceros
No Tan Libre is a 2 player game inspired by a mashup of Science Fiction genres, heavily influenced by satirical films such as Escape from New York, Running Man, RoboCop, and pretty much any major disaster movie. It places its settings in the 22nd century where global warming has run amok, the oceans are significantly higher, and hurricanes happen each week. The game uses the Jams theme of recycling a COIN game. We’ve chosen Cuba Libre for its setting which fit perfectly…”The year is 2100, and Cuba has been turned into a maximum security prison. “
COIN Recycled: Cuba Libre
Team members: Chris Haupt, Darin Krauss, and Zach Haupt
Seller Of Weapons – A CGJ Submission from Team Waroth
Seller of Weapons is a 2-4 player board game depicting the actions of low-level arms dealers in Afghanistan as they try to make their Reputations and stacks of Cash. Each player takes the role of an arms dealer in modern Afghanistan during an unspecified period since 2009. Players will need to utilise a diverse mix of saleable items, transportation, and contacts on the ground in order to earn money from the infamous arms trade with the ultimate goal of making a name for themselves as the most audacious yet reliable gunrunner around.
COIN Recycled: A Distant Plain
Team Members: Rashid Mhar and Peter Evans
Game of Flails – A CGJ Submission from Team Magmaphant
The Cudgel War (Nuijasota in Finnish) was a peasant uprising in Finland during 1596 – 1597. At that time Finland was not a sovereign state but belonged to the Kingdom of Sweden. The uprising was part of the War Against Sigismund (Kriget mot Sigismund) where Duke Charles tried to overthrow the King of Sweden and Poland, Sigismund. Later, Charles managed to become the king of Sweden, Charles IX.
COIN Recycled: All Bridges Burning
Team Members: Mikko Lampi, Heikki Kurhinen, Heikki Hakala and Juuso Kolehmainen
A More Perfect Union – A CGJ Submission from Team Marsharak
In A More Perfect Union, you will be playing as one of four delegates attempting to influence the Convention to their liking; specifically, your aim is to have the Issues being discussed settled in such a way as to have your personal goals met by the end of the game. Each of the four playable Delegates will have a unique set of stats attached to them which define their goals on the Interest Tracks. The interests represented on these tracks are Centralization, Geography, Population, and Economic Regulation, and each player will be vying for position on these tracks before the End of the Convention occurs.
COIN Recycled: Liberty Or Death
Team Members: Luke Evison, Scott H Moore, Cameron Pearson and Tom Vielott
Election 2020: Descent Into Chaos – A CGJ Submission from Team Crocodoke
The Game begins with the Premise that Joe Biden has won the 2020 Presidential Election, but Trump refuses to concede. The battle for the Presidency did not end with the Election, it has only begun. The Party that assumes control of the White House will be decided by the Courts. Where the ultimate power resides will depend on the people.
COIN Recycled: Liberty Or Death
Team Members: Magnus Alvestad, Mike Frantz, Tyrel Lohr
A Woman’s Resolve – A CGJ Submission from Team Goleling
The goal of this design was to create a simple game, with no new components, that simulates Boudica’s uprising against the Romans and demonstrates how her drive on Londinium, lack of supporting uprisings, and overconfidence in battle, led to a poor result historically. It is my hope that players use the game to develop superior strategies to Boudica’s and to develop a better understanding of the conflict.
COIN Recycled: Pendragon
Team Members: Evan D’Alessandro
Poké Libre – A CGJ Submission from Team Rhinoron
Poké Libre is a rethemeing of the GMT COIN game Cuba Libre in the Pokémon universe for 1-3 players. A little over a year ago researchers discovered the lost island of Bacu, which legends referred to as the cradle. It wasn’t long before the industrialists who funded that research began making claims. The world watched as they built up the Capital City. As their researchers continue to search for legends, two more cities are being developed to attract the pilgrims that are pouring in. But Bacu was not uninhabited. It’s indigenous population turned into research subjects and indentured into the service of transients. A small contingent among them is organizing to reclaim their lands and free themselves.
COIN Recycled: Cuba Libre
Team Members: Non-Breaking Space and Family
Falling Skies – A CGJ Submission from Team Dinosaring (incomplete)
Falling Skies is a 2-3 player wargame chronicling an alternative history version of the War of the Roses. The Lancastrians have cemented their hold over London and the rich southwestern regions of the country while their Yorkist rivals strengthen their seat in the north. The Holy Church, ever present, has loyal bishops across the country.
COIN Recycled: Pendragon
Team Members: Laurie Phillips, Rabid Toucan(?) and Evan Walter
Tis the Season – A CGJ Submission from Team Salamaring
’Tis The Season is a quick playing solitaire game that uses the GMT game Liberty of Death. In the game you play Santa Claus, where your goal is trying to delivery presents to all the regions and cities on the map board. Presents are represented by using the Green and Red cubes that come with the game Liberty or Death.
COIN Recycled: Liberty Or Death
Team Members: Evan Walter