Chris Rippel tries to capture the optimism and hardship of settling a Kansas town by creating a game called "Ad Astra Per Astra: The Kansas Town Game". The first draft of the game was like Kansas Kandyland. It did not honor those Kansas settlers or live up to the promise of its title. So, following my wife's guidance, I added challenges.
The game below is still in beta. Literally no one has never been played it yet. I hope someone will play it over the holidays and give me feedback on how to make it more fun.
In January I will post/release Version 1861.0.
Here is the game.
- Game board (pdf) Though the game is on only 9 sheets of 8.5" X 11" paper, these sheets have lots of graphics and so it may take several minutes to download.
- Rules
- Trivial questions sheet
- Trivial answers sheet
- Score sheet
This game contains lots of photographs from Kansas Memory created and maintained by the Kansas Historical Society. This is an awesome resource or photographs and documents. Go there and look up your town. .
One library friend and her family played the game. She claimed in an email that her family liked the game and enjoyed the puns and humor. She also sent me lots of great suggestions for improving the game.
ReplyDeleteI hope you and your family will follow her example.
Happy Holidays.
Chris