Bios: Genesis (2016)
Playtime: 120
Min. Age: 12
Players: 1 - 4
Publisher: Sierra Madre Games, Ion Game Design, Fox in the Box
Designers: Phil Eklund
Artists: Ron Miller
Mechanics: Turn Order: Random, Random Production, Area Majority / Influence, Sudden Death Ending, Dice Rolling, King of the Hill, Market, Open Drafting, Variable Set-up, Events, Simulation, Cooperative Game, Re-rolling and Locking, Auction Compensation
Min. Age: 12
Players: 1 - 4
Publisher: Sierra Madre Games, Ion Game Design, Fox in the Box
Designers: Phil Eklund
Artists: Ron Miller
Mechanics: Turn Order: Random, Random Production, Area Majority / Influence, Sudden Death Ending, Dice Rolling, King of the Hill, Market, Open Drafting, Variable Set-up, Events, Simulation, Cooperative Game, Re-rolling and Locking, Auction Compensation
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In Bios: Genesis, one to four players start as organic compounds shortly after Earth's formation, represented by up to four Biont tokens. The Amino Acids command Metabolism, the lipids create cells, the pigments control energy absorption and storage, and the nucleic acids control templated replication. Their goal is a double origin of life: first as Autocatalytic Life (a metabolic cycle reproducing, yet not replicating, its own constituents), and the second as Darwinian Life (an Organism using a template to replicate in an RNA world). Players can play cooperative, competitive, or solitaire.
Notes designer Phil Eklund, "This subject is the most difficult and ambitious I have ever attempted, and it has taken many years to get it to work right." With Bios: Genesis, Bios: Megafauna, and Origins: How We Became Human, Eklund takes players through almost the whole breadth and scope of life on Earth.
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In Bios: Genesis, one to four players start as organic compounds shortly after Earth's formation, represented by up to four Biont tokens. The Amino Acids command Metabolism, the lipids create cells, the pigments control energy absorption and storage, and the nucleic acids control templated replication. Their goal is a double origin of life: first as Autocatalytic Life (a metabolic cycle reproducing, yet not replicating, its own constituents), and the second as Darwinian Life (an Organism using a template to replicate in an RNA world). Players can play cooperative, competitive, or solitaire.
Notes designer Phil Eklund, "This subject is the most difficult and ambitious I have ever attempted, and it has taken many years to get it to work right." With Bios: Genesis, Bios: Megafauna, and Origins: How We Became Human, Eklund takes players through almost the whole breadth and scope of life on Earth.
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