2212: Ginkgo Biloba, the oldest and strongest tree in the world, has become the symbol of a new method for building cities in symbiosis with nature. Humans have exhausted the resources that the Earth offered them, and humanity must now develop cities that maintain a delicate balance between resource production and consumption. Habitable space is scarce, however, and mankind must now face the challenge of building ever upwards. To develop this new type of city, you will gather a team of experts around you, and try to become the best urban planner for Ginkgopolis.
In Ginkgopolis, the city tiles come in three colors: yellow, which provides victory points; red, which provides resources; and blue, which provides new city tiles. Some tiles start in play, and they are surrounded by letter markers that show where new tiles can be placed.
Begin with three Character cards which grant you starting resources and bonuses to power your game actions. On a turn, players choose a Construction or Urbanization card from their hand simultaneously. Players reveal these cards, adding new tiles to the border of the city in the appropriate location or placing tiles on top of existing tiles. Each card in your hand that you do not play is passed on to your left-hand neighbor, so keep in mind how your play might set up theirs!
When you build over a tile, you add its “power" card to your tableau, which provides you additional abilities during the game, allowing you to scale up your building and point-scoring efforts.
Build upwards as well as outwards to control the most buildings in a future eco-city!
Of course you are curious about it! Fortunately, if you have never played it, you can try it right now from your browser and learn it through its wonderful interactive tutorial included. Or click the link below to the setting page to find your next game partners, and table:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=ginkgopolis
No games without game designers, and it is all thanks to Xavier Georges and the people from Pearl Games (Hello Seb!) who gave the authorization to bring this game online on our platform. And let's thank a lot locerol who joined the team for his efforts to make it playable from any devices!
That's it for today
It's spring, and you deserved a more complex game all about nature to relax while thinking your next moves...What will be our next one ?
You have a week to guess.
Until then, take care and play fair!
Maybe.
