Welcome to
TAILGATE OF LIFE
A game where you roll a die and traverse through Clemson's campus. Choose different routes to go down to explore the different areas. Collect coins around the map and try to make it to the finish at the stadium before the football game starts.
ABOUT US
Tailgate of Life is a game where 2 to 6 players will take turns rolling a die and moving their player piece, a bottle cap, that number of squares. They choose from two different starting locations on the right side of the board. There are crossroads on the map where the player can choose between going north, south, or west relative to the orientation of the game board. The spaces on the game board are interspersed with different amounts of coins, event spaces, bus stops, and sometimes nothing.
A section of the game board
The player’s main goal is to go through the board and collect the most amount of coins by any means possible. They must make it to the finish in 20 turns or less.
What is Tailgate of Life?
Move around the map the same number as you roll on a die. There are a few different spaces that you can land on when going through the map.
Use these spaces to your advantage to get them most coins, and finish on time!
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Coins: The amount of coins on the space is the amount of coins that the player collects.
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Bus Stops: These are the spaces with the busses on it. There are two different colored routes, blue and yellow. When you land on a bus stop, you have the choice of moving to another bus stop of that same color or doing nothing.
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Event Spaces: These are the question mark spaces. The player draws an event card and must do what they are prompted on the card. After the player does the action on the card, they will put the card on the bottom of the deck.
What's Included?
The Box
The Game Board
80 Coins
A turn counter and
10 Bottle caps (Player Pieces)
Event Cards
Stretch Goals
If we could continue to work on the game, we would:
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Add more diverse event cards
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Organize the spaces to make them more fair
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Add more paths to the lower side of the map
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(Maybe) Another space dynamic
Posters
Videos
Development Diary
Tutorial
Meet The Team
Josh Vincent
Technical Writer
I am a senior mathematical science major with an emphasis area in actuarial sciences. I am from Lancaster, South Carolina.
Favorite Drink: High quality H2O
Billie Modzelewski
Guild Leader
I'm a senior packaging science major.
I am from Lexington, South Carolina.
Favorite Drink: Vodka Cranberry
Jordan Britenburg
Game Specialist
I am a senior packaging science
major. I am from Anderson, South Carolina.
Favorite Drink: Free and cold
Development Cycle (After Funding)
Our plan is to get enough funding to be able to produce enough copies of our game so that we can get it into a local store. We also plan to create a store on our website so that we can ship the game to people who do not have it in the stores near them. Once we start getting a surplus of sales on the website to where we can’t keep up with shipping the games, we will talk with different shipping companies, like FedEx and UPS, in hopes of us being able to produce the game in bulk and selling it to them so that we don’t have to worry about the shipping process. The most important thing for us, though, is the fan feedback. We will listen to them, what they like and what they don’t like, so that we can improve upon the game if we are able to make a sequel or “improved” version of Tailgate of Life.