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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 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:
- 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 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.