====== Settlement/City-building Map Game ====== Started by [[offtopic:Zuvarq]] in November 2011, this map game was an attempt to build up on (pun-intended) on the foundation layed out by [[offtopic:Baconheimer]]'s //**[[City Map Game]]**//. The game appeared in two incarnations, the first being [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=219736|the November 2011 one]], and [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=223409|the second one]] being started in December 2011. Like Bacomheimer's project, this wasn't a particularly long-lived [[map_games#silent_map_games|city-construction]] [[map games|map game]], but it lasted long enough to refine some of the ideas introduced in that pioneering city-building map game. ---- ==== Rules and Gameplay ==== Info on the two different versions of the map game. ---- __November 2011 version:__\\ "**Rules**\\ - Be fairly plausible.\\ - Claim before you do a turn.\\ - No the Mexican-American War cannot happen earlier than it did OTL.\\ - Buildings need to have outlines. Natural things do not have outlines.\\ **Notes**\\ - You don't have to be a good artist. As long as what you draw can be identified as what it is, then you're fine.\\ - Though you do have to be fairly plausible you don't have to be perfectly realistic. This is in a fictional world in a mapgame.\\ - Turns can be from 1-4 years depending on how much you want to do.\\ **Starting map**\\ Year 1800. Just a family farm, the settlement starts small.".\\ ---- __December 2011 version:__\\ **"Rules**\\ - Be fairly plausible.\\ - Claim before you do a turn.\\ - Buildings and structures need to have outlines. Natural things do not have outlines.\\ - You must include the city info form with each turn.\\ **Notes**\\ - You don't have to be a good artist. As long as what you draw can be identified as what it is, then you're fine.\\ - Though you do have to be fairly plausible you don't have to be perfectly realistic. This is in a fictional world in a mapgame.\\ - Turns can be from 1-4 years depending on how much you want to do.\\ \\ **Map and sample 'turn' + info form***\\ \\ Some time in early 1 BC up to January, 1 AC (Before/After the City)\\ \\ The Zaragoza-García family moves into an uninhabited area that already had a road through it. Sr. Zaragoza builds a house. The Zaragozas harvest timber and to survive they catch fish from the nearby bodies of water or forage for berries in the forest.\\ \\ City Name: None yet.\\ \\ Population: 3\\ \\ Major Families/Groups:\\ The Zaragoza-Garcías (Spanish-speaking) (Mestizo) (Catholic) (Lumber and Fishing/Foraging)\\ - Sr. Zaragoza Zapata (born 22 BC)\\ - Sra. García Márquez (born 24 BC)\\ - Juan Pablo Zaragoza-García (born 2 BC)"\\ ---- ==== Navigation ==== **[[Map Games|Map Games Main Directory]]**