ProtoCON Online Jan 29, 2022

The following games are participating in ProtoCON Jan 2022! More pictures, videos, rules and descriptions will be made available as the week progresses so stay tuned! If you are interested in signing up for any of the games below then click on the link here, or with the button below, that will take you to the sign up sheet! All game designers who have games being played, please remember to sign up to play the games of others! That’s a super important part of the process if you want others to play your game. Have fun!

Aliens Incorporated

Description
Aliens Incorporated is a set collection card game with a market and tableau building for 2-3 players, or 4 players in teams of 2. Use a resource called goo to buy and build constructions from the market for additional actions. Deploy matching aliens from your hand to the constructions for points, or recycle those aliens to generate more goo. Earn bonus points for building different combinations of constructions or for launching spaceship constructions with full crews. When the construction deck is depleted, the player with the most points wins. Aliens Incorporated is a fun gateway game which, though not actually an engine builder, has the feel of one.

Critter Grove

Description
A cooperative tile-laying game about exploring an island and building homes for animals. Place polyominos to carve out the perfect spot for picky animals, rescue mice and navigate around mountain peaks.

Gempire: Zarmund’s Demands

Description
An engine and city-building game in which you build the capital of the Gempire by meeting 2 of King Zarmund’s 3 zany demands. Every game will offer a completely unique combination of victory conditions, technologies, and palace upgrade rewards. Age 15+, experienced strategists recommended.

Grub Dash

Description
A worker placement game where your “workers” are self-driving cars that each have different abilities. Secretly program them to visit various locations, such as Burger Sultan or Greasy Gary’s Used Car Bazaar. Each location pays a bonus to the player who sends the best car. To earn these bonuses, you’ll need to outsmart your opponents and maybe use a bit of bluffing. Deliver food orders to your customers to earn Bitcoin. Upgrade your starting cars and expand your fleet with buses, tanks, mopeds and drones! Which of you will become the top-rated GrubDash manager?

Mechlemental

Description
Rediscover your lost civilization as you construct elemental mechs, research ancient technology and build new homes for your clan. Area control, tech trees and engine building.

Refugee: Searching for Hope

Description
Refugee: Searching for Hope is a cooperative game in which players must work together to overcome the trials of the pathway by using resources and building structures to guide a victim of war to a new home; but the shadow of war is always watching, waiting an opportunity to ambush.

A game with a modular board that changes with every decision. With mechanics like track movement and hand management, players must decide in what order and what resources to take out of the pathway and when to advance; considering that they have a defenseless “player” who needs to get to the end of this path and who is absolutely dependent on the players.