Two paleontologists fight to gain respect within the scientific community by discovering the most dinosaur bones, even if that means blowing each other up in the process. 

Controls
Directional InputArrow Keys
SelectZ or F
BackX or R

Rules Summary:

Bone Wars is a tactical game where you encamp to spread your reach around the map, dig to find bones, and sabotage your opponent's digs. You gain Reputation (REP) from putting down new camps and by successfully completing digs. Sabotaging your opponents dig will keep them from gaining points from it but it will lose you some REP points too, so be careful!

Rules in-depth:

The map contains 3 types of tiles:

  • Bountiful tiles, marked by visible bones, have the most bones in them 
  • Regular tiles, which will always have some bones but not as many 
  • and Barren tiles are sandy deserts and may have no bones at all!

Each turn you encamp,  and then select one action for each established camp.

You can encamp in any empty tiles within 2 tiles of an established camp, this will gain you 1 REP.

Each camp can either dig, bomb or pass.

Camps can dig in any spot immediately adjacent, digging takes two turns compete and will cash out at the start of the third turn, if they are not sabotaged. After a dig is completed the tile is no longer usable. 

You will gain 4-6 REP for a dig on a bountiful tile, 2-4 for a regular tile and 0-2 for a barren one. 

Camps can bomb a dig within 3 tiles, this destroys the dig and renders its tile unusable. When you bomb a dig you will lose 0-4 REP. 

The game ends after 10 rounds, and whoever has the highest REP will be the winner. 

Credits:

Programming - https://saffles.itch.io/ (Saff E B), Safb

Art - Boopilymoopily, Zanthiab

SFX - Zanthiab

Music - Isaac Messina

Fonts Used:

Bitfantasy by Mitch

MMXSNES by Anonymous

TinyUnicode by DuffsDevice

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