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==Goal==
==Goal==


Build factories that feed on people. Each factory scores the number of humans on the two districts it sits between, multiplied together. The player with the most points at the end wins. Bitcoins you did not spend score one point each.
'''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 between city districts. Each factory scores the number of humans on its two adjacent districts multiplied together. The player with the highest score wins!


==Setup==
==Components==
 
* The 6 x 6 city is laid out. Humans start in the game area: 72 people, at least one in every district of the area. The 8 humans outside the area stay in a pool and never go on the board, except through "More people".
* The bulldozer starts on a random district of the area. The shield starts beside the board and comes onto it the first time the police are used.
* Each player takes 10 '''bitcoins''' and factories: 15 with 2 players, 14 with 3, 13 with 4. Colours are fixed by turn order: red, blue, yellow, green.
* The starting player is chosen at random.
 
The game area depends on the number of players:


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! Players !! Game area !! Fence
! Component !! Icon !! Description
|-
| '''Factories''' || [[File:People_factory_red.png|28px|middle]] [[File:People_factory_blue.png|28px|middle]] [[File:People_factory_yellow.png|28px|middle]] [[File:People_factory_green.png|28px|middle]] || Food production plants in 4 player colors (Red, Blue, Yellow, Green) placed on district borders.
|-
| '''Humans''' || [[File:People_human.png|28px|middle]] || Citizens populating city districts that feed adjacent factories.
|-
| '''Bitcoins''' || [[File:People_coin.png|28px|middle]] || Currency used to bribe city authorities or kept for +1 victory point each at game end.
|-
|-
| 2 || 5 x 5, bottom left || 10 roadblocks on its top and right sides
| '''Roadblocks''' || [[File:People_roadblock.png|28px|middle]] || Barriers blocking movement and factory placement along street edges.
|-
|-
| 3 || 5 x 6, bottom left || 6 roadblocks on its top side
| '''Bulldozer''' || [[File:People_bulldozer.png|28px|middle]] || Heavy vehicle used to scoop up citizens and redistribute them along a straight avenue.
|-
|-
| 4 || The whole city || None
| '''Riot Police & Shield''' || [[File:People_police.png|28px|middle]] || Police unit used to disperse dense citizen crowds into surrounding open districts.
|}
|}
==Setup==
* City dimensions: 6×6 grid (divided into player areas: 2P: 5×5; 3P: 5×6; 4P: full 6×6 city).
* 72 citizens [[File:People_human.png|20px|middle]] start distributed across the board (at least 1 in every district). 8 citizens start in an outer reserve pool.
* Each player receives 10 bitcoins [[File:People_coin.png|20px|middle]] and their colored factories (2P: 15; 3P: 14; 4P: 13). Colors follow turn order: Red [[File:People_factory_red.png|18px|middle]], Blue [[File:People_factory_blue.png|18px|middle]], Yellow [[File:People_factory_yellow.png|18px|middle]], Green [[File:People_factory_green.png|18px|middle]].
* The bulldozer [[File:People_bulldozer.png|20px|middle]] starts on a random district.


==Your turn==
==Your turn==


{| class="wikitable"
Each turn consists of two steps:
! # !! Step !! What you do
|-
| 1 || '''Build a factory''' (mandatory) || Tap an empty edge between two districts of the game area. Empty edges you can build on are outlined in yellow. The factory is built the moment you tap: there is no Confirm. An edge can hold a factory or a roadblock, never both.
|-
| 2 || '''Bribe''' (optional) || Spend 1 bitcoin for one of four bribes, or press '''Skip bribe'''. Right after building, the four bribes appear as buttons in the status bar (greyed out when they cannot be used). '''Undo''' takes back the factory you just built, as long as you have not bribed or skipped. You can bribe only once per turn.
|}


==Bribes==
# '''Build a factory (mandatory)''': Tap an empty edge between two districts in the active city area. An edge can hold either a factory or a roadblock, never both.
# '''Bribe city authorities (optional)''': Pay 1 bitcoin [[File:People_coin.png|20px|middle]] to execute one bribe, or click '''Skip bribe'''. You may bribe only once per turn.


Choose a bribe with its button. Tap the targets on the board, then press '''Confirm'''. '''Cancel''' goes back to the list of bribes.
===Available Bribes (1 bitcoin each)===


{| class="wikitable"
* [[File:People_police.png|24px|middle]] '''Riot Police''': Select any district with humans (except where the bulldozer sits). The riot shield moves there, dispersing 1 human into each adjacent district without a roadblock.
! Bribe !! What it does
* [[File:People_bulldozer.png|24px|middle]] '''Bulldozer''': Scoop up 1 to 5 humans from its current district. Drive straight in any cardinal direction, dropping at least 1 human in each district passed through until all scooped humans are distributed. Cannot drive through roadblocks [[File:People_roadblock.png|18px|middle]] or off the board.
|-
* [[File:People_roadblock.png|24px|middle]] '''Roadblock''': Place 1 roadblock from supply onto any empty street edge in the city.
| '''Police''' || Tap a district with humans, other than the bulldozer's district. The shield moves there. One human goes to each open neighbour (no roadblock between them). If there are fewer humans than open neighbours, you choose which neighbours get one.
* [[File:People_human.png|24px|middle]] '''More People''': Bring 4 citizens from the external pool into the city. Tap the intersection of 4 districts; each of the 4 surrounding districts gains 1 human.
|-
| '''Bulldozer''' || Choose how many humans it takes from its own district: 1 to 5, no more than are there. Then tap a district it can reach by driving straight up, down, left or right. It stops before a roadblock or the edge of the game area, and it cannot drive through more districts than the humans it took. Finally choose how many humans to drop on each district it drives through: at least one on every district, and all the humans it took are dropped. By default each district gets one and the last gets the rest; use the plus and minus buttons to change that.
|-
| '''Roadblock''' || Place one roadblock from the supply on an empty edge between two districts of the game area.
|-
| '''More people''' || Needs 4 humans outside the area. Tap the crossing of four districts inside the game area. Each of the four districts gets one human from outside.
|}


==End of the game==
==End of the game and scoring==


The game ends when the player whose turn it is cannot build a factory: they have none left, or there is no empty edge in the game area. Scores are then added up:
The game ends immediately when the active player cannot build a factory (either running out of factories or having no legal empty edge remaining).


* Each factory: the humans on one side times the humans on the other side.
Final scoring is calculated:
* Plus one point for each unspent bitcoin.
* '''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 [[File:People_coin.png|20px|middle]] in your possession.


The highest total wins. Equal totals share the win.
The player with the highest total score wins! Ties share victory.


==Notes on the rules==
==Controls on BGA==


* You choose how many humans the bulldozer takes and how many it drops on each district (designer ruling).
* '''Building''': Click any valid yellow-highlighted border edge to build your factory.
* Humans are never held between turns. All the humans the bulldozer took are dropped during its move.
* '''Bribing''': Click one of the 4 bribe action buttons in the status bar, select your target districts or edges, and click blue '''Confirm'''. Click red '''Undo''' before bribing if you wish to relocate your factory.
* The shield has no effect on play. It only marks the last district the police visited.
* '''Tooltips''': Hover over any factory or district to preview current multiplication scoring values.
* The rulebook says "play again" for a tie. Here equal totals share the win.

Revision as of 11:43, 2 November 2026

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 between city districts. Each factory scores the number of humans on its two adjacent districts multiplied together. The player with the highest score wins!

Components

Component Icon Description
Factories Food production plants in 4 player colors (Red, Blue, Yellow, Green) placed on district borders.
Humans Citizens populating city districts that feed adjacent factories.
Bitcoins Currency used to bribe city authorities or kept for +1 victory point each at game end.
Roadblocks Barriers blocking movement and factory placement along street edges.
Bulldozer Heavy vehicle used to scoop up citizens and redistribute them along a straight avenue.
Riot Police & Shield Police unit used to disperse dense citizen crowds into surrounding open districts.

Setup

  • City dimensions: 6×6 grid (divided into player areas: 2P: 5×5; 3P: 5×6; 4P: full 6×6 city).
  • 72 citizens start distributed across the board (at least 1 in every district). 8 citizens start in an outer reserve pool.
  • Each player receives 10 bitcoins and their colored factories (2P: 15; 3P: 14; 4P: 13). Colors follow turn order: Red , Blue , Yellow , Green .
  • The bulldozer starts on a random district.

Your turn

Each turn consists of two steps:

  1. Build a factory (mandatory): Tap an empty edge between two districts in the active city area. An edge can hold either a factory or a roadblock, never both.
  2. Bribe city authorities (optional): Pay 1 bitcoin to execute one bribe, or click Skip bribe. You may bribe only once per turn.

Available Bribes (1 bitcoin each)

  • Riot Police: Select any district with humans (except where the bulldozer sits). The riot shield moves there, dispersing 1 human into each adjacent district without a roadblock.
  • Bulldozer: Scoop up 1 to 5 humans from its current district. Drive straight in any cardinal direction, dropping at least 1 human in each district passed through until all scooped humans are distributed. Cannot drive through roadblocks or off the board.
  • Roadblock: Place 1 roadblock from supply onto any empty street edge in the city.
  • More People: Bring 4 citizens from the external pool into the city. Tap the intersection of 4 districts; each of the 4 surrounding districts gains 1 human.

End of the game and scoring

The game ends immediately when the active player cannot build a factory (either running out of factories or having no legal empty edge remaining).

Final scoring is calculated:

  • 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.

Controls on BGA

  • Building: Click any valid yellow-highlighted border edge to build your factory.
  • Bribing: Click one of the 4 bribe action buttons in the status bar, select your target districts or edges, and click blue Confirm. Click red Undo before bribing if you wish to relocate your factory.
  • Tooltips: Hover over any factory or district to preview current multiplication scoring values.
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