Antiquity

Frame · Epochs temporal

The first high cultures – writing, laws, monuments, philosophy, and empires that rise and fall.

Design question – Your game takes place in an ancient civilization. What is founded, built, thought – and which empire will fall?

Associations

• Typical Activities – Building, Governing, Trading, Conquering, Philosophizing

Coherence

Mechanisms: Area Control (imperial expansion), Trading (trade routes), Tech Tree (inventions), Monument Building. Activities: Building, Governing, Trading, Conquering, Philosophizing. Ludic Narrational Structure: rise narration (empire), hero’s journey (Odyssey), cyclical narration (rise and fall).