#Economic game

[virtual-board-game-room]

7 Wonders - Duel

7 Wonders: Duel is the two-player version of the well-known board game in which the aim is to construct 7 Wonders of the World by skillfully collecting, constructing and selling buildings and human achievements.

You can achieve victory in three different ways. In a military way, through scientific superiority or through a civilian victory. All three victory variants are well balanced and it is always very exciting to see who is striving for which victory.

The game is played over three ages during which the players take turns drawing building cards from a partially face-down pile and have to decide whether they want to build or sell. You should never lose sight of exactly which resources you need to build your wonders of the world and which properties can be combined to create powerful synergies.

At the end, guilds can once again turn the tension around and it is often open until the end which party can gain the upper hand.

Profile:

Game Typ: Economic development game

Player: 2

Age: 10+

Play Time: 30 min

Autor: Antoine Bauza & Bruno Cathala

Publisher: Repos Production

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#board games #virtual board game #board game design #board game maker #indie games #games #tabletop games #tabletop gaming #virtual board game room #simulation #7 wonders #7 wonders duel #Strategy gaming #Economic game #card game #vbr

[prokopetz]

Do you ever have a passive gripe with the way trade is represented in medieval/sci-fi/post-apocalyptic fiction? I can't shake the feeling that those are societies that have moved beyond the need for abstract currency - that such forms of trade are more a concession for the viewer to analogize trade to our world instead of offering some kind of unique barter for a world.

A medieval peasant isn't gonna want gold coins for jack because the next trade caravan is two seasons away, they'd much rather a useful tool or some extra fertilizer. Credits in science fiction universes can become worthless due to Future™️ hackers setting their bank accounts to extraordinarily high values, so extra parts for firearms and spaceships are much more useful. Caps in Fallout just make no sense in a world where food and water are few and far between!

I feel unreasonably grumpy about this and I wanted to know if you have any kind of insight to this kind of thing.

There are a couple of only partly related problems here:

1. The idea that the economies of most sci-fi and fantasy settings, as depicted, don't make any sense. This is absolutely true, because most science fiction and fantasy authors don't really think about that sort of thing – their settings only have economies to the extent that the details of those economies are relevant to the plot, which they usually aren't.

2. The idea that it doesn't make sense for currency to exist in these settings because most of them logically ought to have barter economies. The trouble with this assertion is that there's no such thing as a barter economy. Yes, you can describe what one would look like, but no civilisation which has ever actually existed has operated in this fashion. It's a made-up idea – at best, a spherical-cow approximation of how the exchange of goods and services operates in a stateless society, and at worst, complete bullshit.

Consequently, whether or not it makes sense for anything like currency to exist is going to depend on the particulars of how the setting's economy operates (i.e., all the details that that are getting glossed over in point 1, above). About the most we can say in nearly all cases is that we simply don't have enough information about a given fantasy or sci-fi setting's economic structure to know whether it makes sense to have currency or not; we can't just assume in the absence of further details that things will default to a barter economy, because – again – there's no such animal.

#media #tropes #fantasy #science fiction #sci-fi #gaming #video games #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #worldbuilding #game design #economics #politics #swearing

[scarletfasinera]

Literally. Be vigilant I love you. Something beautiful is going to happen. True love is possible only in the next world—for new people. Tomorrow is just a whisper away. We refuse to accept that the world has to remain like this. It's the world and you're made of it, you can't be unmade now. This is somewhere to be, this is all you have but it's still something. Things can't go on like this forever; something will give, it always does. Comrades, the forsaken, the wretched, who tried to rise against the horrors of the world. She would die to return to it. One day I will return to your side. They're beautiful and true—and they will win. The future can be better than the past, if we're willing to work and fight and die for it. In dark times, should the stars also go out? I exist. I exist too.

#txt #DE RETOUR....... GIRL CHILD REVOLUTION #literally i go and do something else for a while. for months. and then suddenly i'm like “man disco elysium was so good” #the tower stood for a moment and the insulindian phasmid exists and the future can be better than the past. #we believe it because it's impossible. #and by believing in it we make the impossible possible #literally the countless instances of inframaterialism being proven true in the game #and inframaterialism being in itself a metaphor for Hope #I love you inframaterialism I love you Mazovian Economics I love you Girl Child Revolution I love you Insulindian Phasmid

[tavosketch]

"This is a man with a lot of past, but little present. And almost no future."

#my art #artists on tumblr #mine #sketch #digital illustration #illustration #disco elysium #harry du bois #harrier du bois #harry dubois #DE #procreate #sketchbook #gaming #disco inferno #kras mazov #Mazovian Socio-Economics #za/um #studio za/um #digital art #digital artist #artist

[fruttymoment]

Yo??

#oneshot game #doodle #oneshot niko #oneshot alula #what was this scene about... #wrong economical choices

[andrewminyardapologist]

All for the game au where everything is exactly the same but instead of playing exy it's some kind of academic decathlon and they go just as hard. Neil absolutely bodies every math question and Kevin's undefeated in history. Aaron obviously handles everything bio. Andrew is an absolute academic weapon because of his eidetic memory but he doesn't give a single fuck about any of it so he only ever answers questions when no one else knows the answer.

Renee's incredible with religious studies and Allison WRECKS the other teams with anything art/music related. Dan is a chemistry and physics wizard and could probably be building bombs or going to space but instead she's essentially playing team jeopardy. Matt's reign is English because I ran out of subjects and I can imagine him dramatically reading Shakespeare monologues out loud in his free time.

The mafia still exists and so do the Ravens and riko was still trying to build a "perfect court" which I think makes the face tattoo thing funnier because it's just as intense but they're all nerds.

Instead of Neil fangirling over exy racquets he's really impressed by the little buzzer things you push during competitions and the elaborate, color coded flashcard system the Foxes come up with.

#aftg #aftg fandom #all for the game #andrew minyard #neil josten #aftg neil #aftg andrew #aftg funny #aftg au #matt boyd #dan wilds #nicky hemmick #aaron minyard #aftg allison #renee walker #kevin day #Just realized I forgot about Nicky and I guess he would do something technology or business related #maybe economics since he is a marketing #major

[charlesoberonn]

Please do not base or substantiate your political worldview on Paradox games.

#I remember a few months back there were smug headlines that went like: #'players upset that an economic simulator game shows that communism is the best system' or something like that #and the 'economic simulator game' in question was fucking Victoria 3

[ausetkmt]

#american lies #white lies #economics #american games #disinfranchisement of Americans #Freedmen #Black Lives Matter #Black History Matters #Redlining #Economic Issues

[babygirlgiles]

I think one of my biggest critiques about Catching Fire as a movie is that there’s entirely too much Gale in it. And I’m not just saying this as a Peeta Girlie, I’m saying this because Gale’s palpable absence is so strong at the beginning of the book that it’s a presence within and of itself and that’s central to the first part of the story!! The fact that Peeta is there when Gale isn’t is key to showing How The Games Have Effected Katniss!!

Katniss is experiencing this meteoric rise in economic class practically overnight. She’s gained an immense amount of privilege, relatively speaking, at an immense cost (the trauma of the Games, the damage to her emotional and mental well-being, the damage to her sense of self, the increased risk that immediate harm might come to her family and loved ones). She’s realizing that she really was part of her community before the Games by virtue of being distanced from that same community now. Because that’s what the Games, and the resulting class hyper-mobility, did to her: it’s set her apart from her peers. And Gale being absent is part of that. She doesn’t have to go to school. She doesn’t have to hunt or trade at the Hob. She doesn’t have to join the district’s industry. But Gale does have to do all those things. It’s why they only ever see each other on Sundays, the one day of the week he isn’t in the minds. It’s why they have increasingly little to talk about when they do meet, because their lives are so vastly different now and because the things that do occupy Katniss’s days are things generally related to her stratospheric class leap and/or the horrific cost of that leap, things she either doesn’t want to talk about or straight up can’t talk about.

She’s had this seismic shift in her life that’s detached her from her world and turned her into an island. Peeta and Haymitch (and to a lesser degree her mom and Prim) are the only ones that have been metaphorically cast out to sea like her. That’s why they’re a constant presence in the beginning of the book when Gale is not. And that’s why adding in scenes with Gale to the beginning of the movie (or keeping in scenes with Gale at the cost of like. literally every other thing that happens in that part of the book, including all the time she spends with Peeta and the others) undermines that point.

#thg #catching fire #Katniss Everdeen #the hunger games #hunger games meta #I mean there’s obviously other reasons I think Peeta’s presence is important athe beginning of the book #not just bc it shows how the games have effected Katniss bc of how her economic class has changed #but bc it shows how the games have effected her by bonding her to him in a way no one else could ever be #and it shows his steadfast loyalty etc etc #but also yeah having soooo much gale doesnt just undermine Peeta’s character development and the development of their relationship #it also undermines showing how Katniss’s life has changed as a result of the games

[thecottagecorebisexuals]

Marikata power couple ending where Catarina inherits the duchy. She's married to Maria (they legalized gay marriage in Sorcier because too many nobles wanted to make Catarina happy). Catarina isn't good at doing paperwork and logistics but Maria is so she takes care of that while Catarina helps her manage the duchy as she can. Catarina takes care of anything that requires interacting with (charming) people. Which is a lot.

Since old man Luigi isn't planning to retire (or die) soon, they have plenty of time to prepare.

"Where's keith in this scenario?" You might ask. Well, he married Geordo and now he resides in the palace as prince consort...

#yes i do realize what my username is #I've imagined that particular ending enough (yeah. no. it's never enough) #gay marriage is legal. If Keith's out of the picture then it falls down on Cata to step up #if keith marries Alan or geordo then he won't be the heir anymore #Cata isn't academically gifted but do you know who is good canonically at economics and management? maria #hamefura #marikata #katarina claes #my next life as a villainess #bakarina #maria campbell #catarina claes #hamehura #otome game no hametsu flag #I'm half crazy because i have an exam in less than 3 hours. so ignore me if I'm being incoherent

[jellyfishfingernail]

Fun thing I noticed in inscryption

So, when I was in geography we started learning about the 4 main types of industries. And I feel like it fits the four Scrybes PERFECTLY.

Get ready for my nerd rambling, because I have a lot to say.

So, there are like 4 types of industries. The first type is called primary industries. They are industries where the product is resources taken from the earth. Fishing and mining are good examples. Which is exactly why I think it fits Leshy so well. Literally, the angler if a fisherman, prospector is a miner, and the pelt making man (I forgot his name) collects fur.

The second type of industry takes the resources from the primary industries and shapes them into something new. So basically all manufacturing. The dredger literally takes random trash from the ocean, the melter forms them into different shapes, and the inspector inspects them.

The third type of industry is all things service. So like your doctors, cashiers, customer service, and funeral directors (Cough cough Grimora cough cough). Most jobs people work in are service jobs now, because it usually requires less education and is actually very important. Respect customer service, people! They do so much for us.

Lastly, we have the 4th type industry. This one is actually a type of service, but is so important that it has it's own section. And it's also very new. This industry the collection and sharing of information. So like researching, most lab jobs, and education. Which is exactly why magnificus is the 4th industry, because he shares information on how to work with magic to his poor pupils.

So yeah, that's my random nerd ramble. Honestly, imagine how cool inscryption would be if all four of them just worked together. I mean, literally the way their world works is built off each other in an economic way, too. I doubt Daniel mullens intended on the similarities between the four Scrybes and the four types of industry, but it works like soooo well.

#idk how to tag this #inscryption #economic geography #video game analysis #p03 #leshy #grimora #magnificus #inscryption p03 #inscryption magnificus #inscryption grimora #inscryption leshy #industries #media analysis #character analysis #??? idk #nerd rambles

[hexagr]

Forgiveness is the act of deliberately not calling in a debt. Revenge, or ressentiment, is when a person, angered by one thing, transfers their anger to another thing and thereby calls in a debt or inadvertently indebts themselves. If you can understand the economics of John Maynard Keynes, you can see the analogous game-theoretical upside of forgiveness. You spend or invest imaginary patience points you don't really have at that moment in time in order to forgive someone or something, in order to avoid a potentially worse future outcome.

And roughly speaking, in a larger frame of view: the more you understand, the more you can forgive. The less you understand, the less you can forgive. On the other side of this equation, it must be said that having to ask for forgiveness is not a virtue. A primary objective of life is to conduct oneself in such a way that one does not need to ask for forgiveness in any serious manner.

A meta "secret third thing" is this: while forgiveness can alleviate tensions between players in a game-theoretic dilemma, it doesn't necessarily mean that players are free from the consequences of their own actions. A player who defects still runs the risk of potentially punishing or having already punished themselves—whether they are situationally aware of this fact or not.

[ladymirdan]

Im fucking dying. I hope this is a shitpost 😂

My man sure showed GW who is the boss by dropping a months salary directly into their bank account. That sure will teach them 👏

I always say there is no wrong way to hobby Warhammer. Some like lore, some like gaming, some are collectors, some like making low effort shitposts, it is all valid.

But I will never understand 40k fans that hate the hobby or GW in general, but still still stays in it. There a a shit ton other war games out there. There are proxies coming out the wazoo if you like grimdark but not GW.

But just going into dedicated hobby spaces, being a negative nancy. I don't get it.

I dont kinkshame, but man this is so fucking weird.

#warhammer 40k #40k #warhammer #ultramarines #games workshop #good economical decisions

[justsomeectoplasm]

I started playing Disco Elysium, and I'm losing over the whiplash it's giving me. The themes and scenes are so jarring but blend in so well that I can't help but be absorbed in the world. Where is your political stance, btw. You flipped off the cafeteria manager mid-air when he asked for your tab and crashed into a person in a wheelchair. There's a dead body hanging from a tree. There's a haunted bookstore. What's your opinion on worker's rights. You can punch a racist or agree with his critical race theory to bypass him. You can talk with a corpse. You can 'I want to have fuck with you' to a hot lady. You can punch a kid that calls you the f slur. You don't have any memories, but it's mostly OK because you can bullshit your way through your identity.

#disco elysium #disco elysium spoilers #fucking 10/10 game #I genuinely recommend it for it's art alone it's soooo pretty #but if you have triggers that include alcohol and other addictive drugs do not play it because some of it is a mechanic #The game reminds me a bit of my country #grew up in a tough economic environment where there's hundreds of clashes of cultural and political views #too bad I keep picking the funniest options because I want to fuck around and find out

[capitalism-and-analytics]

#capitalism #squid game #squid game the challenge #Communism #Antisocialism #Anticommunism #Economics #Minimum Wage #Living Wage #Eat the Rich #Republican #Democrat #Libertarian #Conservative #Liberal #funny #funny meme #socialism #dark humor #politics #anticapitalism

[ectonurites]

your blog is *dc facts* *dc facts* *dc facts* *dc facts* i feel a deep spiritual connection with smith college for girls *dc facts* *dc facts* *dc fa

DSGFHGJzkhsjl ok yes the dc facts quantity is spot on

and while i can understand how one would glean that impression of my relationship with smith based on things i've posted.... truthfully it's not that i feel connected to it, instead it's that i just have a weird relationship with it by virtue of being a (former) resident of the town the college is in yet not ever being a student there

[put a shitty summary of my blog in my inbox?]

#part of that weird relationship also just comes from the uhhhhh. economic differences btwn smith students and general residents lmao #[a recent local newspaper article gave the 'families of smith students on average make $40k more a year than the median #resident family of the town' statistic. for an idea of. what i mean. lol] #ask games