Post by Da Robot on May 11, 2012 7:10:32 GMT -5
What is Diamon Trust of London?
Diamond Trust is a two-player, turn-based, simultaneous-decision strategy game about diamond traders operating in Angola in the year 2000. Over the course of eight in-game months, diamonds accumulate in various regions to be taken by the highest bidder, and whoever brings the most diamonds back from Angola wins. Outfoxing your opponent is your main tactic, but bribing and spying mechanics complicate things. When agent loyalty waivers, your hidden information can be revealed to your opponent without you knowing that it has been revealed. On the other hand, you might know that one of your agents has been bribed by your opponent, but does your opponent know that you know?
In many ways, Diamond Trust plays like a tightly-crafted board game, but by leveraging two separate views of the world (on two wireless-connected DS units), it also does what no board game can: secretly reveal one player's hidden information to the other player without the first player being aware of the reveal
To play the game against an opponent, you need two DS units, but you only need a single cartridge---the game works fine over DS Download Play from one cartridge. It's even possible to serve a whole Diamond Trust party or tournament from a single cartridge via Download Play. There's also an AI opponent provided for single-player practice games. There is one minor benefit to playing with two cartridges: both players can hear their own, separate, generated music (the music is too big to send to the downloading player during DS Download Play).
IGN preview.
Pocket Gamer preview
While the game is complete and now needs to be manufactured, so this is where the KickStarter campaign comes into play.
Pledges can get the regular version or a limited edition (out of 1000) copies of the game, with the LE version having very special items in the package relating to the game (The creator wants it to be a surprise).
The person who created this was indie dev Jason Rohrer who created games such as Transcend, Cultivation, Passage, Gravitation, Perfectionism, Idealism, Police Brutality, Immortality, Regret, i45hg, Crude Oil, Between, Primrose, Sleep Is Death, and Inside a Star-filled Sky.
Diamond Trust is a two-player, turn-based, simultaneous-decision strategy game about diamond traders operating in Angola in the year 2000. Over the course of eight in-game months, diamonds accumulate in various regions to be taken by the highest bidder, and whoever brings the most diamonds back from Angola wins. Outfoxing your opponent is your main tactic, but bribing and spying mechanics complicate things. When agent loyalty waivers, your hidden information can be revealed to your opponent without you knowing that it has been revealed. On the other hand, you might know that one of your agents has been bribed by your opponent, but does your opponent know that you know?
In many ways, Diamond Trust plays like a tightly-crafted board game, but by leveraging two separate views of the world (on two wireless-connected DS units), it also does what no board game can: secretly reveal one player's hidden information to the other player without the first player being aware of the reveal
To play the game against an opponent, you need two DS units, but you only need a single cartridge---the game works fine over DS Download Play from one cartridge. It's even possible to serve a whole Diamond Trust party or tournament from a single cartridge via Download Play. There's also an AI opponent provided for single-player practice games. There is one minor benefit to playing with two cartridges: both players can hear their own, separate, generated music (the music is too big to send to the downloading player during DS Download Play).
IGN preview.
Pocket Gamer preview
While the game is complete and now needs to be manufactured, so this is where the KickStarter campaign comes into play.
Pledges can get the regular version or a limited edition (out of 1000) copies of the game, with the LE version having very special items in the package relating to the game (The creator wants it to be a surprise).
The person who created this was indie dev Jason Rohrer who created games such as Transcend, Cultivation, Passage, Gravitation, Perfectionism, Idealism, Police Brutality, Immortality, Regret, i45hg, Crude Oil, Between, Primrose, Sleep Is Death, and Inside a Star-filled Sky.