Earl created a new cooperative game to play using a Risk board and cards, but with new player pieces and new rules.
The game has two players, who take the positions of Democracy and Environmental Action. They play against the game’s Risks–Autocracy and Environmental Disaster.
If the players manage to persuade the Autocracies to become Democracies, and heal the Environmental Disasters, the players win. If the Autocracies and Environmental disasters wipe out either the Democracy tokens or the Environmental Action tokens, the Risks win.
This is a fully playable game. We welcome you to download it and play it on your own with your own pieces. Please note that the game is copyrighted by Earl and licensed under Creative Commons BBY-NC-SA 4.0. (Which is to say, you can distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the game system in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to Earl, the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under the same license.)
Earl performed Risk: A Clean Slate at the Fluxakucha panels at the SLSA (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts) conference. Fluxakucha presentations take place in 6 minutes and 40 seconds, like a Pecha Kucha talk. For Earl’s presentation, we played a hyper-sped-up video of a game (which you can see here) in the background while Andrea set up the game pieces in front of the audience, and while Chris read the rules at an auctioneer’s rate of speed.
You can watch the sped-up video here.
You can download the rules here.
Chris Wildrick 