Story: Every where in the galaxy enormous worms are crunching and eating themselfes through the universe, sometimes even the "eternal carrot gods" will intervine.
Gameplay: Galactic worms is a 2-6 player fast-paced games where there can only be one worm when the universe is totally destroyed.
Game components: 1 psychedelic map 64x64cm ( with art by Peter.Stenberg) 2 dices, lots of wormtiles, carrotcards (battle/wormcards). + bonus stuff included, not yet decided BUT it will include carrot themed bonuses. http://shop.textalk.se/se/artgrp.php?id=10704&grp=460341
GameDesign/design/Artwork: Peter Stenberg Language versions planned:Swedish,German English, Suomi, Norwegian,Danish,Spanish
Expansion is also planned at the end of 2010
Some words from the creator: Hi geeks! This is my latest game and is really totaly something different from Nuking Norway and snailing around with snails in the forest 6 eating cabbage, or memory with dictators. I allways loved the game "Snake" but it totally sucked that you couldn´t kill or destroy universe..so when I played a cute kidsgame at christmas 2009 I come up with an idea.. From the start it wasn´t supposed to be anything else, I just cut some pappers and rolled a dice and added 2 different colours to them...Didn´t even have a gameboard. The first 4 gametests that I made with friends...everyone agreed " IT SUCKS!" haha..even me :D.
Anyway I didn´t give up.. and added a map based on a A3sheet...then a friend/gametester of min "Linda" said why no´t test to make it round? ..And today 2010-04-19 It´s a really funny game that even people who seldom likes boardgames enjoys to play :)
Work to be done: Easing up the carrotcards, especially the battlecards with monsters, it gives to much downtime for other players and doesn´t add anything.
Galactic worms concept art A concept picture with my psychedelic art, jus to get the feeling if this could work on an actual boardgame map.
Early non-graphic beta test Some people prefered putting planets in their eyes to attact the classic "haha look at me" feeling
Poll:
Are you intersted in playing this game when it´s released?
Me in my workshop & Gamestudio.
I know lots of weird stuff with Hitler is laying around but it´s from my "Dictatorseries" wich is all about enlighen people about dictators. Check my page for more info about it. http://www.peterscomics.com/
It´s very fun and easy to play, about the LSD thing I don´t know, I´ve never taken drugs, but I think I could hit the LSDboardgamers with this gameboard totally.
I made an extremly cleaned up version of it aswell, but it didnt work when I integrated the "eternal carrotgods" found on the gameboard into some of the cards.
point taken .. kidding aside, now: No, I would not play this at all! The whole artwork is just too psychedelic and it doesn't hit my taste. All those flashy colors would make me want to turn that game down before I even get introduced to the rules.
Seeing the artwork of other boardgames, I' pretty sure that I'm not alone with this opinion.
But to be honest: My opinion (or the opinion of others here) does not matter at all. If you have fun designing a game that you enjoy playing and that your gaming group enjoys, too, you have won
point taken .. kidding aside, now: No, I would not play this at all! The whole artwork is just too psychedelic and it doesn't hit my taste. All those flashy colors would make me want to turn that game down before I even get introduced to the rules.
Seeing the artwork of other boardgames, I' pretty sure that I'm not alone with this opinion.
But to be honest: My opinion (or the opinion of others here) does not matter at all. If you have fun designing a game that you enjoy playing and that your gaming group enjoys, too, you have won ;)
I agree with you about the thing if people think it´s fun to play regardless of the opinionsof a few here about the psychedelic artwork, the thing that counts is the voters here in the poll and the games sold and the amount of fun it attracts and replayability, wich there´s lots of in this game.
So far looking at the poll, and your comments, it would be smart making two different gameboards, 1 with my psychedelic artwork and 1 cleaned up for people who don´t like this sort of art. The reason why I posted this was to get like stuff you ghave given me: Straightforward comments from fellow gamers/designers. So thanks a lot so far :D
Ps If someone would send me a highquality picture of a pizza I could make a gameboard of it aswell, so just email me a pizza in 300dpi to Ushiri@gmail.com (that would be fun to play on aswell:))
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Hendal, gsimpson and kvenosdel....Thank you very much, It touches me deep that you guys really like my art.. HAHA...Yeah, perhaps I should add the highlander thing on the backside of the gamemap :)
I´m going to print a BIG BIG map next week, the map will be 1,3meters. I just make everything the double size. Will be cool to play with in the park :D
And...I´m going to make a special gameboard with an ULTRAFLASHY map.. The comment about not liking flashy colours really boosted me :DDD Also I made new planets with "ultrapsychdelic praying cat planet" :DD
I´m also trying to promote my carrotsect with stickers on the sides ofthe gamebox
Anttik: hehe get your point..I liked the beginning with the worms..but mine are more happy eaters I think..they´re destroying the universe with a smile on their faces :)))))
Thanks Dreadfuzzy & Whymme & LnGrrrR :D Actually I meet a psychedelic artist to day named Maria Costin..So her artwork will perhaps be in another edition of the game later on... Allready been tweaking with another one...But I have a hard time not making it in my whacked up style...I love it to much haha.. I´m not sure that I care if it doesn´t go mainstream.
I´m going to this convention in the 13 of may with 800 gamegeeks..And I have actually come up with rules for a galactic worms version with humans as the wormpieces with non-turnbased rules.
I´ll take photos of it later on if I remember it.
My company is allmost new on the market, I´ve been underground 100% with my weird stuff since 2006..but now been up and running in 7months.. I´ve got a page on facebook where you can see sneak previews of my stuff http://www.facebook.com/peterscomics Add me as a friend to get the lates updates. my page is http://www.peterscomics.com
The picture above is the backside of my new psychedelic memory that I released on a swedish forestfestival that was last weekend.. It was really cool, I´m out of print of those allreday but I´m going to print more of them tomorrow..Life is wonderful right now :D
Are you interested in getting BGG discount on my stuff just drop me a line after you checked my webshop...and we will fix that :D
Galactic worms Pizza box sponsored. I talked to owner of a local pizzeria, and can get pizza boxes to a low price, he loved the Galactic map.. And I told him about " Galactic worms Pizza edition" idea.And he was totally up for it! So Pizza edition will be sponsored by this pizzeria and I get a pizza for free in exchange for their "Sponzored by xxxxxxxxxx" sticker on the side of the box.
Pizza edition will be a highquality photo of one of their pizzas, and instead of worms, you use ham and other food stuff like onion, to pickup Olives and Pinapple,peparoni,mozarella and stuff on the pizza, the wormhole in the middle will be crown pea. The battle cards will feature: nails, pubic hair, and a rat tails as enemies. The Carrotgods is not sure yet what it will be translated to in pizza terms.
Thanks to: Victor, Yxa, Dag for ideas for "Pizza edition"
Carrotcards Swedish version. From left to right topcards: Spiderhorde (battlecard), Wormcard reroll,Freezeray (wormcard), Intergalactic speed (wormcard). Second row: Eternal carrotgodcards: "Dionotos", Monstret & Ushiri & Death, Wormcard PanzerWürm, Swarm (wormcard)
Translation with the manual is allmost finished now, Got clearification with a YES from my German Carrotmember in Münich....
