SUMMERY

Dark winter is a board game of survival, cooperation and resource management. Players will play four survivors, living in a vulnerable house together during the pandemic and social collapse. They need to survive as long as possible by looting, using their resources and responding to threats and risks.

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INTENTION

This game is in response to a creative exercise with theme "We are all in this together". So I defined part of the design goal of my game: make survival and cooperation as keynotes of the game dynamics.  As for the backstory of the survival game, I am inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic that we are all experiencing now. In 2001, there was a real exercise on emergency response to the pandemic of deadly infectious diseases -- Operation Dark Winter. This operation reflects that our society will collapse rapidly under the attack of highly infectious and deadly virus, and the shortage of resources will make our social environment rapidly collapse into chaos.

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I recommend you to read this: Designing Dark Winter about what I was thinking in designing this game.