The latest game design I've been working on is available here as a free print and play. It is still being developed and tested and was just recently submitted to Board Game Geek.
The game again takes place in the Industrial Northeast as the owner of one of four major railroads. Your objective is to build westward and take advantage of resources that you may place along the way. You draw a set of tiles and use capital and resource tiles. The game takes place in three separate ages, a Silver, Golden and Rust age. VP are earned by the types of resources claimed by your company routes versus the age you are ending, VP for making it to Chicago, VP for each city you are connected to and VP for being a railroad built furthest to the west.
The game is designed for 2-4 players and takes roughly 20-30 minutes to play. Appropriate ages are 10 and up.
If you're interested, feel free to download the files as one zip file or each PDF separately...
or...
- Game Board
- Instructions
- Tiles
- Cubes (only if you do not have enough red, green, blue and yellow locomotives, markers, buttons or counters laying around).
- Alternate map for USA for five players is here.
If you do decide to download, it is recommended that you print out the game on a color printer. The tiles do best if they are mounted on chipboard or other 1 inch tiles, however, they can be printed to card stock. I also use a velvet bag for drawing tiles.
Last update was on 3/29/09.