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you need: oiko booklet (quests), gadget (ecology indicators)+oiko bricks (restored ecology pieces) – see image
OVERALL GOAL : create your own restored ecology puzzle and be the first player to place four humans in the center of your landscape!
STEP_01 :
Pick the puzzle you want to play from the OIKO booklet. There are 6 levels of difficulty – colors dark to light green- and four types of puzzles. Three types of these puzzles are constructed by use of only one of the gadgets and are analogously represented by colors yellow, orange, blue. Additionally there is a fourth type, represented by purple, that includes puzzles that are combinations of activities played with two or more gadgets.
STEP_02 & 03:
Depending on the level and gadget or set of gadgets you are instructed to use for the completion of the puzzle, use the instructed gadget as following: turn pot switch on => gadget is on => matrix hello screen => select level you are playing for, i.e. dark green-6h on the switch gadget. =>turn off the light before the 6hour period => if you succeed : matrix winning screen, level dark green => shapes on matrix screen= pieces of restored ecology, i.e. energy for the switch gadget =>take gadget off the wall and construct the puzzle by using the OIKO bricks => find where the human ‘brick’ goes and unlock that level. There are different types of puzzles and bricks such as energy,water and soil as well as creature and waste bricks. Those will be explained later (see EXTRAS).
STEP_04:
After unlocking many levels you can decide to play a round of OIKO. Your goal is to be the first one to move four humans together. If you have completed any creature puzzles by now, its the time to get the creature bricks and place them infront of you. The same happens with waste bricks. Additionally you get three waste bricks each. Those you can use as mentioned earlier, to block fellow players during the game.
HOW TO MOVE HUMANS: based on the game labyrinth, players have to push an OIKO brick (energy, water, soil) one place in order to move a human brick one place on a row or column, until two humans collide and so on. (see pictures at playtest post) Humans that move in pairs move faster (two moves a round). Humans can use creatures to surpass obstacles (waste or mountains).
EXTRAS:
- PUZZLE TYPES : There are two types of puzzles that players have to unlock. One type depicts pieces of nature (energy, water, soil) and the other depicts special mods ( clouds, the sun, waves, birds,elephants, fish etc ). Once these last ones get unlocked they have special powers. Humans can use them to surpass waste or other obstacles.
- WASTE BRICKS: Waste bricks are given to you in the beginning of the game [number to be decided] and one can only get rid of them by placing them on a fellow player’s puzzle who has just lost his/her winning condition at the gadget. [ explain better here ]
- HUMAN BRICKS: there are 10 human bricks that are equally distributed among the players. Those are placed among restored ecology bricks and can only do one move at a time. If though players decide to collaborate, humans can move faster.
- CREATURES BRICKS: those are extra pieces that represent clouds, sun, birds etc and are given to players upon completion of the appropriate puzzles, i.e. complete cloud puzzle = player gets cloud creature brick. The creature bricks have extra powers than can be activated when used by humans: they can make them move faster and surpass waste bricks.
- MOUNTAINS: while constructing the puzzles, players may build them in a 3d dimension as well. That way they construct mountains, that play a significant role in the game. [perhaps remove]
QUESTIONS:
A) is the matrix randomized? if so the ready made puzzles idea cannot be applied. instead one can make his own puzzles ? perhaps mechanic like carcassone- capture those pieces to move your humans forward?
B) if the matrix gives standard results for each level-what could add a random factor in the game? the way players combine the puzzles they play on what we could call the common ecology platform
