==Summary==
You play as a god attempting to gain influence among man in 4 areas, at the end of the game the winner is the person with the highest influence in their lowest category.

Your god is a shape not a color (goat/urn/bow/lion).

The areas of influence are colors
Tile / Leader
Religion / Priest- Red
Commerce / Merchant - Green
Leadership / King - Black
Agriculture / Farmer - Blue
You have one leader in each sphere of influence (red bow, green bow, etc) and influence (points) will flow through them.

==Actions==
You will get 2 actions on each turn, and there are 4 possible actions.
* Place a tile - Take a tile from your hand and place it anywhere on the board.
* Place a leader - Take a leader from your hand and place it adjacent (no diagonals) to a temple (red tile)
* Pick up a leader - Take one of your leaders from the board back to your hand.
* Discard - Discard any number of tiles from your hand and redraw that many.
After your two actions you redraw to 6 and the next player goes.

==Kingdoms==
An important concept for the rest of the game are kingdoms.
A kingdom is a set of tiles and leaders that are adjacent to each other, with the exception that only one leader of each color may belong to a kingdom.
When a tile is placed in a kingdom, the leader of the color matching that tile, in said kingdom scores a point of influence of that color.

e.g.
Urn player places a Temple (red) tile in a kingdom containing the Bow Priest (red leader), Bow player would score 1 red influence
(this would be a poor play)

The King (black leader) has a special ability, such that it scores points for colors that do not have a leader in their kingdom.

i.e.
If a kingdom lacks a green leader and a green tile is placed, the owner of a black leader in said kingdom would score a green point

==Conflict==
There are two types of conflicts, wars and revolts.
If you place a leader in a kingdom containing a leader of the same color, you start a revolt.
If you place a tile that joins two kingdoms, you start a war.

Revolts and Wars have an attacking leader and a defending leader in the case of a revolt, the new leader is the attacker and the existing is the defender.
To determine the winner of a conflict first you count a leader's board strength.
During a revolt this is the number of temples (red tiles) they are adjacent to.
During a war this is the number of tiles matching the color of the leader in their respective kingdom.

After counting board strength, starting with the attacker, both players have the chance to send support from their hand.
During a revolt support is red tiles and during a war they are the color of the leader.
The attacker plays support first, and after seeing the number the defender plays.

total support = board strength + support tiles played

Defender always wins ties.

The loser is removed back to the owners hand.
If this is a war, then all of the board strength tiles of the loser are also discarded.

In a revolt the winner scores 1 amulet, while in a war the loser scores 1 influence of the leader color for every piece removed.

==Monuments==
Whenever a player places 4 tiles of the same color in a square a monument may be built on the spot.
The tiles are flipped over and a monument is placed on them.
The monument has 2 colors, and one of those colors must match the flipped tiles.
Monuments do not have a color of their own for purposes of supporting leaders or counting as board strength.
Monuments award points at the end of a players turn to the active player's like colored leaders in the monument's kingdom.

==Amulets==
Amulets are wild points.
At the start of the game all temples on the board start with an amulet on them.
At the end of a player's turn if a kingdom contains 2 amulets and a green leader, the leader's owner picks up one of the amulets.
Some of the starting temples have an extra border around them, those amulets must be taken first if there is an option.

==Catastrophe Tiles==
Each player starts the game with 2 catastrophe tiles.
These cannot be discarded, and are the only tiles that may be played on top of other tiles.
They destroy the tile under them and cannot be part of kingdoms.

==Rivers==
There are 2 rivers on the board (the Tigris and the Euphrates) only blue tiles may be placed on rivers, and blue tiles can only be placed on rivers

==Game End==
The game ends when only 2 amulets remain on the board, or the draw pile runs out.

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2021-11-29T16:57:18Z

Thenmal: initial stream of consciousness rules

==Summary==
You play as a god attempting to gain influence among man in 4 areas, at the end of the game the winner is the person with the highest influence in their lowest category
Your god is a shape not a color (goat/urn/bow/lion)
The areas of influence are colors
Religion - Red
Commerce - Green
Leadership - Black
Agriculture - Blue
You have one leader in each sphere of influence (red bow, green bow, etc)
Influence will flow through them

==Actions==
You will get 2 actions on each turn, and there are 4 possible actions.
Place a tile - Take a tile from your hand and place it anywhere on the board.
Place a leader - Take a leader from your hand and place it adjacent (no diagonals) to a temple (red tile)
Pick up a leader - Take one of your leaders from the board back to your hand.
Discard - Discard any number of tiles from your hand and redraw that many.
After your two actions you redraw to 6 and the next player goes.

==Kingdoms==
An important concept for the rest of the game are kingdoms
A kingdom is a set of tiles and leaders that are adjacent to each other, with the exception that only one leader of each color may be in it.
When a tile is placed in a kingdom, the leader of the color matching that tile, in said kingdom scores a point of influence of that color.
e.g.
Urn player places a Temple (red) tile in a kingdom containing the Bow Priest (red leader), Bow player would score 1 red influence
(this would be a poor play)
The King (black leader) has a special ability, such that it scores points for colors that do not have a leader in their kingdom.
i.e.
If a kingdom lacks a green leader and a green tile is placed, the owner of a black leader in said kingdom would score a green point

==Conflict==
There are 2 ways leaders come off the board, Revolts and Wars
If you place a leader in a kingdom containing a leader of the same color, you start a revolt.
Revolts and Wars have an attacking leader and a defending leader
in the case of a revolt, the new leader is the attacker and the existing is the defender
First you could a leaders board support
during a revolt this is the number of temples (red tiles) they are adjacent to
so a number between 1 and 4
then starting with the attacker, both players have the chance to send support
during a revolt, support is red tiles
so the attacker may play any number of red tiles from their hand
then the defender may to likewise, after they see the number the attacker played
total support = board strength + support tiles played
the loser is removed back to the owners hand, and the winner scores 1 amulet (wild card scoring)
defender always wins ties
support tiles are discarded
The second way leaders are removed, is a war
A war occurs when a tile is placed that joins two kingdoms that contain matching leaders
first the placed tile is overlayed with a union marker to indicate where the kingdoms touch
then the attacking player (phasing player) must select a leader from the opposing colors (if there are multiple) (if that player has no leaders in the opposing colors the next player in turn order does, etc, etc)
that leader is the attacker and the defender is the opposing leader
during a war board strength is counted as the number of like colored tiles in your kingdom
and support is played as the color of said leader
defender wins ties again
except in addition to the losing leader being removed
all board strength tiles (like color tiles in the losing kingdom) are also removed
the winning player scores 1 point for each thing removed (aka tiles removed + 1)
in the color of the tiles
this will potentially break apart kingdoms and end future conflicts (edited)
revolts and wars are really crucial and the core of the game
revolt -> leader in existing kingdom, support with red (edited)
war -> tile placed joining kingdoms, support on board and colors

==Monuments==
whenever a player placed 4 tiles of the same color in a square a monument may be built on the spot
the tiles are flipped over and a monument is placed on them
the monument has 2 colors, and one of those colors must match the flipped tiles
monuments do not have a color of their own for purposes of supporting leaders
meaning if you build a red monument and the temple your leader was standing next to was just flipped over, your leader falls off the board
monuments award points at the end of a players turn
so a blue/green monument would award a blue and green point if you have a blue and green leader in that monuments kingdom
only the active player scores monument points at the end of a turn
even if they have leaders in those kingdoms
monuments award points every turn for the rest of the game
and can never be removed

==Amulets==
Amulets are wild points (and thus very useful)
at the start of the game all temples on the board start with an amulet on them
at the end of a players turn
if a kingdom contains 2 amulets and a green leader
the leaders owner picks up one of the amulets
some of the starting temples have an extra border around them
those amulets must be taken first if there is an option
The main way the game ends, is if there are ever only 2 amulets remaining on the board
The other way is that the draw pile runs out

==Catastrophe Tiles==
Each player starts the game with 2 catastrophe tiles
these cannot be discarded, and are the only tiles that may be played on top of other tiles
they destroy the tile under them and cannot be part of kingdoms
this can remove leaders

==Rivers==
There are 2 rivers on the board (the Tigris and the Euphrates :wink: )
only blue tiles may be placed on rivers, and blue tiles can only be placed on rivers

Game art: img directory

2021-11-22T20:44:18Z

Thenmal: /* Shrink images */

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== Requested images ==

The following images are requested by BGA:

;game_box.png
* It is displayed on the main site on the game description page and when creating a table (280x280 px).
* It should be a 3D image of a physical copy of the game box as it appears in an online shop.
* It is better to take the version of the game that is coherent with the game art used in the adaptation, and from the original publisher of the game.
* The background of the image must be transparent.
* If you don't have a 3D version of the game box, you can use the following website to create one: http://www.3d-pack.com/

;game_box180.png
;game_box75.png

* Don't modify these images, they are auto generated by "Reload game box image" action. If you have another copy of your source make sure you update you copy of these files after they have been generated and not override with old copied.

;game_icon.png

* It is the icon displayed in the lists of games and tables (50x50 px).
* The objective of this icon is to make the game recognizable among the other games. A good idea is to take a part of the game cover that is distinctive (ex: the game title).
* This one does not have to be transparent. This image should not have a border

;publisher.png
* It is the logo of the publisher of the game, displayed on the game description page.
* The width must be 150 px. The height can be anything (reasonable). The image could be transparent.

;publisher2.png (optional)
* If the game has been co-published by 2 publishers, you should upload a second image named "publisher2.png" (same characteristics as the first one).

;game_banner.jpg
* size 1386x400px
* should not contain any text; representative of the atmosphere of the game such as a cover element or communication image; the box image covering the banner on the left should stand out

;game_displayX.jpg (X an integer between 0 and 9)
* height between 400px and 760px, width maximum 1.5 x height;
* the idea is to make players want to play the game, so it could be a zoomed card, some detail of the board, an overview of an ongoing physical game... but NOT a screenshot of the BGA adaptation since there is already the "see game in action" replay for that

'''Important''': when you modify these images, you MUST click on "Reload game box image" from the Control Panel in order your update can be taken into account.

== Game art ==

You must upload in img directory all images of your game interface.

=== Images naming constraints ===

To be correctly deployed your images file names should not contain spaces or parentheses.

=== Images loading ===

'''Be careful''': by default, ALL images of your img directory are loaded on a player's browser when he loads the game. For this reason, don't let in your img directory images that are not useful, otherwise it's going to slowdown the game load.

Note that you can tune the way images are loaded with Javascript method "dontPreloadImage" (see [[Game_interface_logic:_yourgamename.js|Game Interface Logic]]).

General recommendation it to have no more than dozen of image files, 2Mb max each. However if there is heavy game resources specific to a player (i.e. player board of specific color or set of cards) it is better to separate them and "don't pre-load" since in any given game only some of them will be used.

=== Images format ===

You can use these image formats while building your game interface:
;jpg images

should be used for non-transparent images. Jpg are usually lighter than Pngs, so please choose Jpg for big pictures (ex: game board, cards) when you don't need transparency to accelerate game load. You don't need transparency for rounded card corners, it can be done using css.

;png images

should be used for images with transparency, such as non-square tokens, meeples, etc (combined into sprite).

;gif images

can be used for animated images. This is not recommended to use gif animated images as they can upset players, but for some specific interface element this could be useful.

;svg images

svg images can be really efficient for icons or abstract images

=== Use background-size ===

In order to allow for players to use the browser zoom without your images becoming pixelated, it's recommended to use higher resolution images than needed for the normal display of your interface, and to use the css property '''background-size''' to fit the image to the size you need for your interface.

=== Use CSS Sprites ===

To limit the number of images load and make the game load faster, you must use CSS sprites, i.e. you must gather several images in a single one. However, there are limitations. Do not make any CSS image sprite with dimensions that exceed 4096x4096 pixels or it will not work on mobile devices (Android max texture size is 4096 pixels, test your own browser at [http://webglreport.com/ WebGL Report]).

To learn more on CSS Sprites:
* [http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_image_sprites.asp CSS sprites (W3C documentation)].
* [[Game interface stylesheet: yourgamename.css]]

'''Important:''' the maximum image size should be 4096x4096 (otherwise, some devices may not display parts of the image, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34682482/what-is-the-maximum-sprite-sheet-size-i-can-use-for-android-devices)

Tools:
* Sprite Generator https://www.toptal.com/developers/css/sprite-generator/

=== Shrink images ===

If you get high resolution images from publisher you need to shrink them since web display requires much lower resolution than printing.

* Shrink images without loss of quality https://tinypng.com/ or http://www.iloveimg.com/ or https://squoosh.app/

== Image Manipulation Tools ==

You have no choice but to use one of the image manipulating tools to create a successful game adaptation, you would have to
deal with
* Converting to supported formats
* Adding transparency
* Stitching
* Shrinking with no quality loss
* Resizing

For that you need a good tools, recommended tools (if you know more add them here)
* Gimp (all platforms) - general GUI image editor
* Paint.net (Windows) - general GUI image editor
* ImageMagic (All platforms) - https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php - command line image editor, great for mass manipulations and scripting