Board

Well, since the Leak-Bot was non-operational last Friday, we figured we'd better give out a double this time.

First we have the Mailbox Quadrant of the board...

...and then we have the board's crown jewel, the Center, featuring the fearsome visage of the game's prime nemesis, HappyCOM-9.  Comes complete with a little cowering human!

Click either to download the segment as a PDF.

Oh, and in case you didn't notice, we quietly leaked a fully browsable hyperlinked version of the rules last week. Which means you can begin to browse and learn. If you want to know what some of those trickier board squares do, we suggest beginning here.

This week we bring you a Star Trek joke and a new quadrant of the board.

Click for the PDF, print, and enjoy!  Only two more to go and then you'll have the complete board in your hands... 

Another board segment to join the rest...

Click for the PDF, print, enjoy.  Three more segments to go!

Board Segment Four, featuring The Network.  

Click the image for the PDF!

The "Jail" quadrant.  If assembling the board at home, this goes directly "below" the previous two quadrants-- line up the "C" with the "C" on last week's segment.

You'll note that we've adjusted the "city texture" in the background from light to dark to reduce some visual noise. We'll eventually change the last two leaks so that they all match one another.  Discontinuities sometimes happen sometimes when we share pre-release beta materials, but we offer an apology nevertheless.

Things are pretty busy at the suitcase that's currently Dystopian Holdings HQ, but we didn't want to miss this week's Friday Leak. Here's a second chunk of the board:

Click for the PDF! If you're printing these for the Demo Board, line up the "B" in the upper-right corner of this section with the "B" in the lower-right corner of last week's Institute Quadrant.

OK.  We're still busy working on fulfilling our promise to release a "Demo Version," a fully-playable version of Inevitable that could be downloaded and printed from home.  We've already released thirty cards, so what's left? Still to come are the following:

• updated/redesigned versions of five playable Groups
• the board (in nine tiles)
• the "Citizen's Manual" (a rulebook) and the "Glorious Progress!" supplement (a guide to the board)

Time to start unveiling pieces of the board! Here's the "Institute Quadrant":

Click on the image to get this board segment as a PDF... and then feel free to print it at home to begin assembly of your Demo Version Board!  More next Friday!

In our design process, we've tried, wherever possible, to make Inevitable provide a lot of richness and depth to its players.  One innovative way that we've done this is by building one-turn "minigames" into the larger arc of the game. Since we're in a dystopia, many of these minigames come in the form of sadistic GameShows.  The bargain they strike with the player is simple: succeed at the GameShow, receive fabulous prizes!  Fail, and suffer humiliating penalties (including but not limited to having your head blown open).

Here are Inevitable's seven GameShows (as of pre-release beta 0.7.3):

Want to learn more, or know how they work? Here's a pair of pages from the rulebook.

The GameShows (PDF file, 2 pages)

Although a highly strategic game, Inevitable also contains some of the chance-based pleasures of a roll-and-move game.  What that means, of course, is that even just getting from one side of the board to the other can be an experience that's rife with peril.  Here, then, our final installment in the sequence of Things That Suck: three squares from the board that you'd probably prefer to avoid.

Tune in next Friday for a few more squares from the board.