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Revision as of 10:11, 16 November 2011
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| Designer: | Invisible Playground |
| Year: | unknown |
| Players: | 4-18 |
| Stuff required: | Playing figures, walke-talkies, chalk, clipboard, plastic cups, gong |
| Crew required: | 2-3 |
| Preparation: | 30 minutes |
| Time required: | 8 minutes |
| Place required: | Nyugati underpass or other urban pedestrian area |
| Activities: | Colonizing, strategy, observation, teamplay, protection, body |
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A Tiny Urban Game about inhabiting micro-spaces and moving little gray figures onto properties with lower and lower values. After you have cleared the field, use your body to protect your own kind from the endless stream of people. A game of power, sadness and fun – all of which lie close together at Nyugati, Budapest, where homeless people are moved from one place to another by security in an endless dance.
Preparation
Check out this Instructable Video to get started.
To prepare the playing field, use chalk (see Level Design). The main equipment you need during the game are small playing figures you use for board games like Mensch ärgere dich nicht. Use primary colors like green and red for the teams. Additionally you need gray figures that are hard to find - you'll probably have to paint some colored figures gray. Depending on the level design (see below), you need around 20 figures of each color (including gray). For each team color, you also need one larger figure representing the King.
The game works with 2-3 teams consisting of 2-6 people. It is very helpful if players carry their figures in transparent plastic cups and distribute them evenly inside the team at the start of the game. Teams communicate amongst each other and with the referee through walkie-talkies. Set the walkie-talkies to a different channel for each team. Not every player in a team needs a walkie-talkie. If you don't have enough walkie-talkies, make sure that players with walkie-talkies are not also carrying the playing figures, so that no one is left out.
The referee needs a timer, a walkie-talkie set to each of the teams channels and a clipboard for counting the points in the end.
Level Design
Use an urban pedestrian area with lots of foot traffic. They playing field should not be larger than about 2 minutes walking time across. Mark out property zones with chalk. Each zone should have a value of either 20, 30 or 50 points. Place the higher valued zones either in places that are hard for players to discover, or in places where therer is a lot of pedestrian foot traffice and players have to work hard to protect them.
Just before the game starts, distribute the Gray Figures semi-randomly throughout the zones. You can give the game more edge if you place more Gray Figures in the zones that are hidden and have high values.
Rules
Your goal is to earn as many points as possible by moving your Figures into properties with the highest value and by moving the Gray Figures onto zones with lower value or that are owned by other players.
You claim a property by placing your little Figures on them. You can place each of your Figures only once. If they are kicked out of a zone by a passer-by, that is your problem. You are not allowed to place them back in. Tip: Use your body to protect your figures from passers-by. You are not allowed to remove the other teams Figures or ask passers-by to do so. Play fair!
You can move the Gray Figures freely from zone to zone. Each player may only carry a single gray figure at a time. You cannot place any of your figures until you have placed the gray figure in a new zone.
After the game is over after around 8 minutes, points are counted. You get all the points for a zone if your team has the most figures in it. If it is a tie, no-one gets any points. If there are more Gray Figures in a zone than any other colors, the Gray Figures get the points. The Gray Figures can win the game.
You have one special figure, represented by a larger game piece: The King. The King counts as 5 little figures and doubles the value of the zone it is placed in. For example, if there is a red King and three green figures on a zone valued 50 - red earns 100 points. If there are six red figures and a green King on a zone valued 30, read earns 60 points. If two teams place their King on one zone, the value is doubled only once.
Rulecard
- The rulecard for Unwanted Entities in English and Hungarian.
Theater
The referee and her helpers can celebrate the counting of points by doing a procession from zone to zone, collecting the figures and announcing the points through walkie-talkies. It is also very nice to have some music to go along with the procession.
Variants
We have played a variant of this mechanic as Tiny Urban Game without Gray Figures and on traffic islands with a system of traffic lights in place. Only one team is allowed on each island at a time and you are only allowed to cross the street at a green light, so that you have to use the traffic lights pattern strategically.
Flickr gallery
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(These are the ten most recent Flickr photos of Unwanted Entities. To add your own, just add the "ludocity:game=unwantedentities" tag to your Flickr photos.)
