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STORYBOARD

1. Welcome Screen: Hit the ‘Play’ button to load the game. Hitting ‘Tutorial’ button will

walk the player through the game rules and instructions on how to play. Player can

exit game by clicking on ‘Exit’ button.

Once the “play!” button is clicked, the button changes to ‘Deal’ button. Clicking on this will

start dealing the ROLE CARDS one by one to each player. Every player has to click on this

button once so that the computer assigns a random role to that player.

Help: Click this to read additional instructions on how to move players, kill a spy or use other

features in the game.

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SCREEN LAYOUT

2. The game board will have the following layout:

• Game Board will appear within the area shown above.

• On the top right corner there will be lights corresponding to threat level. For

every spy killed, an additional light will turn on. When all lights are on, game

will end and all players lose!

• On the top left corner, there will be a help button that will pop up the game

instructions.

• Player status on the right displays how many units of FOOD, WEAPON and

REST units each player currently has. Nodes add resource units to the player

and links take them away from the player, as described later.

• At the bottom left corner are buttons corresponding to each player. During a

player’s turn, his/her corresponding button glows. Clicking on any of these

buttons in any turn brings the corresponding player’s role card to the front.

Clicking on the button again makes it disappear.

• On the bottom right corner is a button to roll the die. When clicked on it, the

dice drops from top, over the transparent plane on the board, where they

could be dragged and rolled.

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3. Hopping from node to node: A player can make his move by left-clicking his pawn and

placing it at legal nodes. For more info on legal moves, refer to the game rules in the

design doc.

BOARD DESIGN

The board has three parts: nodes, links and regions.

4. NODES: Nodes give players resource points that they are designated with. Each node

has a different combination of resource points to offer, based on the region they lie

inside. For the breakdown of resource points, read #7.

5. LINKS: They have weights on them, which vary based on color. They can be green,

yellow or blue. Each color also determines how many resource units they take away

from the player, when the player traverses through links associated with a specific

color. Read further for details.

6. Every time a player rolls the die, all adjacent links that can be taken in that turn lights

up to red color, as shown:

7. REGIONS: The board itself is divided into four different kinds of regions (shown with a

distinct terrain). Each of these regions determines how many resource points the

nodes can have in a specific region.

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a. River: c. Mountains:

b. Desert: d. Forest:

REGION CHARACTERISTICS

Food Armory Rest

Forest 4 2 4

River 2 0 2

Mountains 1 4 1

Desert 0 3 1

The numbers above correspond to resource units that each node can have, in a

specific region.

LINK CHARACTERSTICS

Food Armory Rest

Green 0 0 0

Blue 1 1 1

Yellow 2 2 2

8. After every move, the board randomly places one spy at any of the adjacent locations

of the player. Spy is not added if the player does not make any move in that turn. At

any stage in the game, if all the adjacent nodes of a player have been occupied by

spies, the game ends at that very moment!

Following picture shows a game over scenario:

The red pawn is surrounded by spies.

9. GAME BOARD:

a. Zoom-Out View

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b. Zoom-In View