Devlog 4

The shop is where players get an effect card, for lack of a better term.

Effect cards can either be exhausted to play an effect, or stay in the person's hand until they get a new effect card to replace it.

The player can hold 3 cards at once

They are hidden from other players and can be played at any time

Players can also get challenge cards, which have a negative effect if not completed in time

Cards are placed face down in front of the player, each time they pick up a card, they slide all their cards to the right, and place the new card on the left,

If there are more than three cards, they discard the rightmost card

Players can play other people's cards, but they may not work if placed at the wrong time (this will be more of a challenge)

The Van will be passed around from player to player as they take turns driving the van.

1. At each go the player places a time token onto each available time slot

2. They will then spend each time token with what they want to do (prices in Price List)

3. Once they have run out of time tokens their go at the wheel ends and their go ends.

The van has multiple purposes,

It is a tracker for the players to know who is at the wheel of the van (aka the decision maker)

It also serves as an action reminder, players can take up to 4 actions, but may not be able to afford all of them.

It also carries the packages, this will be important as the van has a limited capacity.

And finally the engine health, which is the loose condition of the game, no engine = no delivery

Packages will have a die and a package info slip with them

The info slip will tell the players the following info:

delivery address

Reward for delivery

Time for delivery

Story of package

When events and what events will play

The player will spend time tokens when it is their go and will place them on any available package that is in play.

When spending time tokens, all-time tokens are placed onto the packages (for example, if 3-time tokens are spent, then the player will place all three-time tokens), and if any or multiple events are covered, they are played from the first package to the last package in the van, and/or from lowest to highest place on the time grid for a package, one at a time.

Once all events are played, the player resumes their go until they have finished their turn.

Events will be cards that state a story,

3 options

3 outcomes

These events also have to be Drunk Driving eligible (with the exception of the campaign events)

They will also have to be easy to pick out from each event (if you need to get event 20, then it shouldn't be easy to mistakenly read another event)

Drunk driving packages should only have one event with short delivery times. This is to make sure they don’t take over the focus of the game during campaigns, keep them quick, and bring down the cost of the drunk driving edition

to combat the time issue in the game, by making movement cost one time, and increasing the amount of time per package, we can make movement a lot more forgiving in the game.

Change the board design to a changing one.

the board can be recto verso, so that way the map can change as the game plays. 

When the van goes over an event tile, like in Mario Party, or exits an area, then a part of the map will flip, these sections can go from day to night, this will increase the strategy of movement, as now the map is no longer static but also now offers new locations and delivery criteria.

new moving options would be a nice way to make the board more diverse, for example having a motor way that goes around the map, like the M50 around Dublin or the peripheric around Paris. this would make the map more accessible.

it would cost one movement to get onto the motorway, and then instead of the usual movement distance, the players would go from exit to exit.

alternatively i could use a tunnel system as that would not obstruct the view on the map, it seems comical that the city would have a metro tunnel, or probably more inline with the story, they found out the van fits the tunnels and decide to use them, this could lead to rather comical interactions.

Packages originally were going be die, they would be used during events and decide outcomes. I would like to maybe bring this back for movement.

Each package would be a different number die, not just a 6 die. the player would then use the time tokens and spend it on a package, the package they spend the time on would be the die they use for movement, some packages would have higher potential roles, or maybe lower ones, so the player would actively make a choice on which package they want to spend time on.