Here’s how it works: Each turn, you build some track and add a new station. And so do your opponents. Because you’re not the only line in town, you have competition. Your goal is to serve as many desirable blocks as possible, while keeping your opponents at bay. How? Well, every piece of track you lay down cannot be crossed. So every turn, you are building walls. The only way through is via stations.
Over time a subway system will develop, its layout determined by how you and your opponents have chosen to play the game.
I would buy this game in a heartbeat.
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6th April 2013
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Reblogged From thirdrailgame
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Fully Playable Ms. Pacman Game Based on the Washington, DC Metro Map
This is what you get when you trawl the internet late at night…easily one of the strangest things I’ve come across on the Web lately. You can actually play this map as if it was a game of Ms. Pacman — note the bow in her hair and Cindy Crawford-like beauty spot, just like the original game. Instructions on how to play are here. (Hint: it’s much easier to use the R O Y G B keys to move between route lines than to try and navigate with the arrow keys.)
You can also check out the author’s time-scaled interactive map of the DC Metro while you’re there.
(Source: MV Jantzen website)
Montreal Metro Board Game
Sent my way by Twitter user @andrewsalzberg, here’s another board game based on a transit system - this time, Montreal’s Metro! (Readers may remember this post about “The London Game”, a board game based on the London Underground.)
Looks like a pretty simple “race” game, but it captures the aesthetics of the actual map quite nicely.
(Source: Openalex website, via @andrewsalzberg)
Let The Game Begin!
Today I learned that there’s another game based on the London Underground apart from (the somewhat ridiculous) “Mornington Crescent” - “The London Game”. Where can I get a copy?
(Source: Zed.Cat/Flickr)
