Dan Regan - Game Designer
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Team Fortress 2 The Sequel The Board Game (The Unofficial Version) | 2011

  • Wargame
  • Team Size One
  • A board game interpretation of Team Fortress 2
  • Learning Goals: Systems Deconstruction, Unit Balancing
Play TF2's classic control points and capture the flag modes the way your grandparents did - without the computer!

How To Play (Basics):

There are two modes, Control Points and Capture the Flag.  At the heart of it, they play like the TF2 versions.  Each player picks a team and tries to wipe the other team out while completing the objectives at the same time.  If you're a fan of TF2, you might want to give this adaptation a try.  It's not exactly the same, obviously, but despite all it's similarities it feels radically different from the original - controlling the entire team really makes a difference in how you think about the game.

Post Mortem:

Team Fortress 2 The Sequel the blah blah blah was a fantastic exercise as a designer.  Vanilla TF2 is a superbly designed game, to the point where you don't even notice how well everything works together.  It really is impressive: hence this exercise.  The challenge was to deconstruct TF2 and make a board game out of it, and I had to come up with some pretty interesting adaptations - such as, the Engineer and Medic became the same class.  While it's not my favorite piece, it was a fantastic exercise and I highly recommend it.

You can download the rulebook and some of the art assets here
tf2_the_sequel_the_board_game_the_unofficial_version.zip
File Size: 1956 kb
File Type: zip
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Work published with permission of BI Simulations k.s
  • Home
  • Professional Experience
    • Splash Damage
    • SCS Software
    • Bohemia Interactive Simulations
  • Resume
  • Simulations
    • VBS
    • Student Project
  • Selected Student Games
    • Relocator
    • Aztech
    • Guns with a Z
    • Narwhal
    • Blobby
  • Tabletop Games
    • Last Place->
    • Ride Out
    • New Territory Roleplaying Game
    • Team Fortress 2 The Sequel The Board Game (The Unofficial Version)
    • Tea.Raid
  • Outbreak