Renegade Game Studios
My Father's Work
Game Description
Imagine yourself within the walls of a forgotten laboratory, where iron shelves are filled with bizarre curiosities in formaldehyde and polished brass instruments await their next use. It is here that you will stumble upon your father's journal, a worn tome guarding years of knowledge and countless experiments. This is the premise of "My Father's Work", a captivating board game in which you will take on the role of a mad scientist determined to complete the grand scientific legacy left unfinished. The obsession begins: you will restore this laboratory to its former glory and dedicate your life to your father's work.
In "My Father's Work", 2-4 players compete in an intense race for scientific glory. Each scientist receives a page from their father's journal and a vast estate, the perfect place to conduct deviant experiments. You will accumulate points by completing research projects, aiding the town in its endeavors, and improving your macabre properties. The ultimate goal is to complete your father's unfinished masterpiece, balancing study and active research. It's a race against time and your own ambitions, where every decision counts for your resource management and generational strategy.
The peculiarity of this narrative board game lies in its three-generation structure. At the end of each generation, all your experiments and resources will be lost, and only "Annotated Knowledge" and the "Estate" will be inherited by your descendant. This unique mechanic imposes long-term planning and difficult choices, as you will be forced to balance scientific advancement with the moral consequences of your actions. Your ethically dubious discoveries could unleash enraged mobs or drive you to madness, ensuring high replayability and an always tense and unpredictable experience.
Prepare to immerse yourself in a deep and thematic gaming experience. "My Father's Work" offers an unforgettable gaming experience that will push you to the limits of morality and dark science.
- Players: 2-4
- Duration: 180 minutes
- Year: 2022
- Publisher: Renegade Game Studios
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Rules - My Father's Work
"My Father's Work" is a competitive game for 2-4 players in which you take on the role of mad scientists, heirs to a laboratory and a page from your father's diary. The main goal is to accumulate victory points by completing experiments, supporting the city in its initiatives, and improving your macabre estate, with the ultimate ambition of completing your father's magnum opus.
The game unfolds over three generations. Each generation, players dedicate themselves to experiments and resource management. At the end of each generation, most accumulated progress and resources are lost, but players can pass down to their descendants the acquired "Diary Knowledge and Estate," creating a sense of progression and persistence through the ages.
During the game, it is crucial to balance study and active experimentation. Players' actions can have significant consequences, such as unleashing the wrath of citizens, who might form enraged mobs, or driving scientists to madness due to their ethically questionable creations. The main actions include:
- Complete experiments
- Aid the city
- Improve one's estate
- Manage resources and the consequences of one's choices
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