Gaia Project

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Gaia Project
Game data
author Helge Ostertag , Jens Drögemüller
graphic Dennis Lohausen
publishing company Tierra del Fuego games
Publishing year 2017
Art Strategy game
Teammates 1-4
Duration 60-150 minutes
Age 14 years and older

Awards

Gaia Project is a strategy game by the German game designers Helge Ostertag and Jens Drögemüller. It is based on the game Terra Mystica and was published in 2017 at the Essen game fair by the publisher Feuerland Spiele . In June 2018, the game was named a “game hit for experts” as part of the Austrian game award game of games . In addition, it was able to achieve 2nd place at the German Games Prize 2018.

Theme and equipment

In the game, each player takes over one of 14 races and tries to spread peacefully in the galaxy. Each people has a certain type of home planet and its own special ability. If other planets are to be colonized, they have to be reshaped beforehand. In the course of the game, the mines are upgraded to better buildings and different planets can be united in an alliance.

In addition to the instructions, the game material consists of:

  • 10 room parts (sectors)
  • 1 research board
  • 1 scoring board
  • 7 people boards
  • 10 round scoring tiles
  • 8 final scoring tiles
  • 10 round boosters
  • 36 basic technologies
  • 15 expansion technologies
  • 6 space stations
  • 19 alliance markers
  • 15 Alliance indicator tiles
  • 12 Gaia planets
  • 1 black planet
  • 20 action markers
  • 25 car cards
  • 4 player aids
  • 1 turn order card
  • 8 mines per player color
  • 4 commercial centers
  • 3 research laboratories
  • 2 academies
  • 1 seat of government
  • 3 Gaiaformers
  • 7 marker stones
  • 25 satellites
  • 14 credit indicator
  • 7 ore indicators
  • 7 knowledge indicators
  • 30 QICs
  • 50 power stones
  • 1 extra power stone
  • 1 starting player figure

Style of play

To prepare for the game, the ten sectors are laid out as desired and each player places two mines on any home planet. The research board is randomly equipped with nine basic technologies and each player's markers are placed on the corresponding research fields. In addition, each player starts with 10 points on the victory point track. The scoring tiles and round boosters are drawn at random and placed on the table. Now each player receives his starting income before the starting player starts the game. The game ends when six rounds have been completed.

Phases per round
  • income
  • Gaia phase
  • Actions
  • End of round

At the beginning of each round, all players receive their income. If a player placed a Gaia former in the previous round, this is replaced by a Gaia tile in the Gaia phase. Then the starting player begins to perform one of the eight possible actions. When he has finished his action, it is the turn of the next player in turn order. This continues until all players have passed in turn. If a player passes, he puts back his round booster and chooses a new one for the next round. Then a new round begins.

The eight possible actions are:

  • Build a mine
  • Start a Gaia project
  • Upgrade existing buildings
  • Form an alliance
  • Research progress
  • Play power or QIC actions
  • Special promotions
  • Fit

After all six rounds have been completed, a final scoring takes place depending on the final scoring tiles. The player who has the most victory points after the final scoring wins the game.

Development and expenditure

The game Gaia Project was developed by the German game authors Helge Ostertag and Jens Drögemüller on the basis of their Terra Mystica game and was published in 2017 for the international game days SPIEL '17 in Essen by the publisher Feuerland Spiele . It has also been translated into several languages ​​and published internationally under license by various publishers. In 2017 a Dutch ( White Goblin Games ), an English version ( Z-Man Games ), a Russian (Hobby World), a Spanish (Maldito Games), an Italian (Cranio Creations), a Brazilian (Mandala Jogos), a Chinese (Game Harbor), a Japanese (Ten Days Games) and a Polish version (Games Gactory).

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Instructions for the Gaia Project
  2. ↑ Gaia Project in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English); accessed on November 18, 2017.

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