High Concept

High Concept

Vesuvius High Concept:

No one believed you or your friends when you said that the mountain would spew fire and destroy everything. Now you and 3 of your friends must escape the eruption of mount Vesuvius with as many survivors as you can.

Features:

Exciting and educational event cards used at specific places in the board. Got the falling rock card? or the poisons gas flow card? Roll the die to see if you survive.

Roll the die to see how many spaces the volcano has before it erupts! That's your head start. Every round roll the die to see how far the Pyroclastic flow advances.

Spacial survivor cards at specific locations are where you get your points. The longer you stay at that spot, the more people you convince to come with you. But be careful the super heated gas and ash are closing in at any moment.

The players who get to the harbor with the most survivors wins but if you linger too long you could loose everything.

Player Motivation:

The players motivation is to save the most people from the volcano while there's still time. The player to get to the boats with the most survivors wins.

Genre:

Historical Fiction, Edutainment

Target Demographic:

7 - 16 year olds and up can learn about the stages of volcano eruptions and the tragedies that happened in 78 CE.

Competition:

Another game that focuses only on Pompeii might be competition but this game has all 4 cities (Pompeii, Stabiae, Herculaneum, and Oplontis)and is educational.

Unique Selling Points:

Cards danger cards that can slow you down and kill off some of your survivors.

Survivor cards that give you a chance to convince people to come with you.

The ability to learn about the victims while at the same time symbolically saving them from they're fate.

Ability to chose which city you travel through. Pompeii, Stabiae, Herculaneum, and Oplontis. Each with they're own unique obstacles.

Design Goals:

To create a thrilling game where you have to move fast to manage you time and the excitement peaks as you escape just in time. Or don't...

To create a game that allows you to save people instead of illuminating competitors.

To create a game that is also educational.

Characters:

Your a Roman scholar who studied the volcano's before based on the limited records they had 2000 years ago. Buts since no eruptions have been recorded in roman history everyone thinks your crazy. Until now...