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Origins - How We Became Human w/American Megafauna (English/German Edition)

By: Sierra Madre Games

Type: Boxed Game

Product Line: Bios Series (Sierra Madre Games)

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Product Info

Title
Origins - How We Became Human w/American Megafauna (English/German Edition)
Publisher
Category
Author
Phil Eklund
Publish Year
2007
Dimensions
13.5x13.5x2"
NKG Part #
2148005083
Type
Boxed Game
Age Range
10 Years and Up
# Players
2 - 5 Players
Game Length
240 Minutes

Description

Unlike a standard Euro game, Origins is a historical simulation, with the ambitious goal of describing, in three eras, the origins of everything human. Players start with a brain map of one of five pre-conscious hominid species, 115 thousand years ago. They also start with a Demography sheet and a single hunter-gatherer unit in the Old World, as it enters the glacial period of the Pleistocene Ice Age.

The maps of the Old and New Worlds depict various plants and animals, from coconuts and maize to mammoths and sheep, that they must try to domesticate to become herdsmen and agriculturists. They must expand their mind, as they learn the arts of language and imitation of competing cultures. Players who do poorly may become enslaved by other cultures, only to get a new chance as advanced civilizations go through cycles of chaos and renaissances. Global Warming may end the Ice Age and flood the coastal settlements, and deserts, jungles, and glaciers advance and retreat as the millenia pass. There are three eras in the development of the mind: The Age of Instinct (pre-lingual), The Bicameral Age (lingual but not yet conscious), and the Age of Faith (conscious with faith-based authorizations). An expansion (to be released in 2008) brings the game into the Age of Reason (today).

This edition includes the game American Megafauna - the continuing contest between dinosaurs and mammals. Ruling reptiles have dominated for 170 million years, only to be overthrown by mammals in what must be the upset of the eon. However … the contest is not over.