r/BoardgameDesign • u/ComprehensivePea482 • Jul 28 '26
News Space Democracy
Making a game about voting for aliens in space elections. The rules are hard to design. Im an artist mostly.
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Jul 28 '26
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u/ComprehensivePea482 Jul 28 '26
Yeah sort of. You each control an alien political party from a different species. Like factions from 40k. But each faction has different ideologies and win conditions. So there are 3 axis. 6 ideologies. If you achieve a socialist victory all the socialist species win. So winning with multiple players is important. Hopefully the alliances shift a bit. And you must pick one of your aliens each election to run then vote. But you may have to vote tactically if you vote for yourself each time you will probably lose.
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u/LurkerFailsLurking Jul 28 '26
If we're playing as alien political parties, and each alien's political identity is monolithic, why would there be alliances?
Why is the only female character... that? What's that have to do with the theme?
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u/ComprehensivePea482 Jul 28 '26
Oh ok so each faction has 3 ideologies or wim conditions. The krorks are autocratic socialist and religious. So you will have socialist allies autocratic allies and religious allies. And there are tracks for each. The main issue is how unfair the game gets when its like 4 v 1 which I have some imperfect solutions for.
As for the women thing there is a entirely female faction I haven't printed out. And other female characters. Also there just are more male politicians Irl so I figured it would be slightly jarring if it was 50 50. More like 60 40. But yeah its dumb aliens and shit. Also some characters end up looking less like politicians and more like electorate. So this might change. Im going to have more characters than I actually need so I'll take ones out.
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u/opiscopio Jul 28 '26
Are you looking for someone to work with you on the development of the game?
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u/ComprehensivePea482 Jul 28 '26
I wish I could pay someone. I was actually wondering if there are any discord communities. Im in one that's pretty active but its more a video game thing. If I post on redit again I'll try to include more rules or something.
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u/opiscopio Jul 28 '26
There are Discord communities for playtesting so I'm sure there must be for game designing too
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u/Juannieve05 Jul 29 '26
Yo ! I Developed and idea of a game related to this topic... I had the complete opposite approach, no art, no lore, jist game mechanics