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Best Fisher in the Bayou

Duration

Overview

2023, 3 months

Team Size

Are you going to be a chump and only fish up one type of fish or are you going to be the fishing master and catch them all? Will you catch your everyday Crawfish, Bluegill, or even Catfish, or do you have the guts to try and catch yourself a Mythical creature? I hear they sell for quite a lot on the market! 

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Players play as a fishing tycoon, where the goal is to get as much fish as you can, without going into the most debt! Be careful because while some fish might be more valuable than others, they don’t come for free! 


You must get points by getting high placements on fish tracks, but watch out, if you have the most debt at the end of the game you go bankrupt and lose!
 

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Role

Game Designer, UI Designer

Tools

Photoshop, Indesign

Contents

  • 90 Fish Cards

  • 36 Crawfish Debt Cards

  • 36 Bluegill Debt Cards

  • 36 Catfish Debt Cards

  • 36 Mythical Debt Cards

  • 5 Meeples in 6 colors

  • 1 Game board

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Rule Book

Setup

  1. Each player places a meeple at the beginning of each track on the zero.(Crawfish, Bluegill, Catfish, Mythical, and Debt)

  2. Shuffle all the decks individually and place them all face down.

  3. Each player is dealt 6 cards face down from the Fish deck.

Basic Rules

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  1. Players picks up their fish cards and chooses one of them, placing it face down in the front.

  2. Pass the remaining cards to the player next to you.

  3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until no one has any more cards in hand.

  4. Calculate the total amount of fish and debt 

Win Condition

 Player with the most VP points but not most debt wins

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Card Design

Example of Crawfish

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Amount of

the Fish

Amount of

the Debt Card needs to be take

Type of the Fish

(with different colors)

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Lucky Card

The difference between lucky cards and ordinary fish cards is that there will be one less debt card that needs to be drawn​

Debt Card

Debt cards are a by-product of players getting fish. It is one of the important factors for win condition. Avoiding excessive Debt can help you win the game

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Amount of Debt

(Will be tracked on board later)

​Special Card

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Debt Removel Card

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Mission Card

In each type of card, there are three Debt Removel Cards and three Mission cards to help players reduce the number of Debt Cards draws

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Shuffle Card

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Fish Frenzy Card

In order to increase the uncertainty and fun of the game, we added black cards. Players can explore more combinations these cards

Score Board

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This is the board used to record the score.

The middle is the score calculation of various fish: RED is crawfish; BLUE is bluegill, PURPLE is carfish; ORANGR is mythical

The outside BLACK one is used to record the total amount of the debt.

VP points are recorded behind each fish type, ranked according to the total amount of fish obtained by the player, and then caculate the sum of the player's VP.

Distribution of Debt Cards

2

4

6

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Crawfish

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Bluegill

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Catfish

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Mythical

LOW

NORMAL

HIGH

FISH TYPE

0

1

2

1

2

3

2

3

4

For different type of fish, the higher of the score, and the higher will be the debt range

Gameplay

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Playtest with our target audience (5-14 years old children)

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