Gamehelppeople

Goal

People is a dystopian economic strategy game for 2–4 players designed by Néstor Romeral Andrés (a tribute to Soylent Green). Build licensed food-processing factories on the borders between city districts. Each factory scores the number of humans in its two adjacent districts multiplied together. Unspent bitcoins score 1 point each. The player with the highest total score wins!

Components

Component	Icon	Description
Factories		Food production plants in 4 player colours (Red, Blue, Yellow, Green) placed on district borders.
Humans		Citizens populating city districts that feed adjacent factories (72 start on the board, 8 in the outside pool).
Bitcoins		Currency used to bribe city authorities, or saved for +1 point each at game end.
Roadblocks		12 barriers that block human movement and factory placement along street edges.
Bulldozer		Heavy vehicle used to scoop up citizens and redistribute them along a straight street.
Riot Police & Shield		Police unit used to disperse citizens from a crowded district into surrounding districts.
Board	—	6×6 city grid. The active play area adapts to the player count.

Setup

• City Area:
  • 2 players: 5×5 area (25 districts).
  • 3 players: 5×6 area (30 districts).
  • 4 players: full 6×6 city (36 districts).
  • Inactive districts outside the play area are fenced off with roadblocks.
• 72 citizens start distributed across the active area (at least 1 in every district). 8 citizens start in the outside pool.
• Each player starts with 10 bitcoins and their supply of factories: 2 players: 15; 3 players: 14; 4 players: 13.
• Turn order determines colours: 1st: Red , 2nd: Blue , 3rd: Yellow , 4th: Green .
• The bulldozer starts on a random district. The riot shield starts off-board.

Your turn

Each turn consists of two steps:

1. Build a factory (mandatory): Click an empty edge between two districts in the active city area. Your factory is built immediately.
2. Bribe city authorities (optional): Spend 1 bitcoin to execute one bribe, or click Skip bribe. If you wish to reposition your factory, you can click red Undo before bribing.

Available Bribes (cost 1 bitcoin each)

• Police: select any district with humans (except where the bulldozer sits). The riot shield moves there, dispersing 1 human into each adjacent district that is not blocked by a roadblock.
• Bulldozer: scoop up 1 to 5 humans from its current district. Drive in a straight line in any cardinal direction, dropping at least 1 human in each district passed through until all scooped humans are distributed. The bulldozer cannot pass through roadblocks or leave the active city area.
• Roadblock: place 1 roadblock from the supply onto any empty street edge in the active city area.
• Outside (More People): bring 4 citizens from the outside pool into the city. Choose a 2×2 block of districts; each of the 4 districts receives 1 human.

End of the game and scoring

The game ends immediately when the active player cannot build a factory (either having 0 factories left in their reserve or no legal empty edges remaining).

Final score calculation:

• Factory points: For each factory you built, multiply the number of humans in the district on one side by the number of humans in the district on the other side.
• Bitcoin points: +1 point for each unspent bitcoin in your possession.

The player with the highest total score wins! Ties share victory (no tie-breaker).

Controls on BGA

• Building a factory: click any highlighted border edge between two districts to place your factory immediately.
• Bribing: click one of the 4 bribe buttons in the supply bar above the board (Police, Bulldozer, Roadblocks, Outside), then click the required board targets. For the bulldozer, click Humans: [N] in the status bar to adjust how many humans to scoop (1 to 5). Then click blue Confirm (or red Cancel).
• Skipping & Undoing: click Skip bribe to end your turn without bribing, or click red Undo to take back your factory placement.
• Tooltips: hover over bitcoins and factories in player panels to view counts, and over bribe buttons in the supply bar.
• Preferences:
  • Colorblind support (Preference 100, default: Off): adds distinctive geometric shapes to factories and the bulldozer.
  • Sound effects (Preference 101, default: On).