Immune Defense
Immune Defense is a Team game where you fight to eliminate either the body’s immune cells or the viruses and bacteria infecting the body.
Players must work together to take over the body in 4 main organs: the kidneys, lungs, brain, and heart.
General Game Info:
Number of Players: 2-6
Playtime: TBD
Age Recommendation: 10+
Theme: Immune System, Disease
Categories: Board Game, Team Game, Cards, Dice, Strategy
Designer: Jordan DeYoung
Artist: TBD
Publisher: TBD
Price: TBD
Complexity: ?/5.0
Game Components:
Immune Defense comes with the following game pieces:
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Rules/Game Terms:
The Goal of Immune Defense changes depending on which team you are on.
If you are on the Immune side, your goal is to eliminate all foreign bacteria, cancer, and viruses from the body.
If you are on the Disease side, your goal is to either eliminate all the Immune Cells or have a virus in each part of the body at the end of your turn.
Each player starts with 5 Cards from their respective deck.
Each side starts with 6 WBC or 6 Bacterial tokens.
If there are an uneven number of players, the side with less starts with an extra 2 tokens
Each side will take turns placing their tokens onto the different organs starting with the immune side until all tokens are placed.
Turns are taken by side, not by player. Each player draws 2 cards (with uneven sides the side with less draws an extra 2 cards) and plays as many cards as they want. At the end of your turn, you must have no more than 5 cards in your hand.
Gameplay:
After setup, the immune side starts the game.
Each player draws 2 cards, and they work together to take their turn and strategize how to take their turn and use their cards.
You may play as many cards as you’d like on your turn.
One of the main cards in the game are fight cards. These cards initiate battles in one organ between the immune system and the diseases. The player who plays the fight card matches up one immune cell and one disease cell (not all cells will be in the fight each time unless each side has an equal number of cells).
During the fight, roll a die for each matchup one by one and remove the lower number from the board.
You can also move your pieces to a new organ by playing a transfer card, but you can only play one of those per turn.
Each deck has its own special cards to aid in your goal.
How I made the Game:
Before I tell you about this game, I’m going to tell you about when I was interested in the medical field.
Back when I was in high school, I was thinking about what I wanted to do for work and a career. One of the things I landed on was to be an anesthesiologist, or for those who don’t know what that is, it is the guy who knocks you out or numbs you with medicine for surgeries. Why did I want to do that? Cuz, they make lots of money! That and I was interested in medicine and health in general at that age. My desire and interest led me to a few anatomy classes that I absolutely loved, and I absorbed tons of information and took notes like a maniac.
Fast-forward a couple years when I was graduating from High School, I realized I did NOT want to go to school for another 8 years to get my doctorate to be an anesthesiologist. So now what? I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. In fact, I still don’t!
Later I did find a passion for making games and so with my previous interest in medicine and human anatomy, I decided to make a game using some of that knowledge, but also putting in a bit of my own flair to make it work for a board game.
After deciding on the game theme, I got to work designing the game mechanics, then the cards.
I wanted to make my cards fancier than any of my previous games, so what I ended up doing was making the card backs and then mirroring them and putting in a lighter layer on the card fronts so that it could have a cool see-through effect to them.
Well now that all the cards and mechanics were laid out what else did I need to do?
PLAYTESTING!
WOO YEAH! This is the best part! I get to play my game with people and get feedback and make it better.
Well, I still need to do it. Yeah, I got quite a few games that I still need to test still.
If you’d like to be part of a playtesting group, go ahead and send us an email at hello@thebacongames.com and we’ll reach out to you whenever we’re playtesting our new games!
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