Cities of The Archipelago

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Cities of The Archipelago
An Educational Card Game Age 10 4-8 Players
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Strategize and build the most illustrious city in
ancient South East Asia. Accomplish this by
hiring various historical personas plying through
the Indian Ocean. Will you beat your friend to
build the great Borobudur monument?
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The Cards At a Glance
This number decides when you take your turn in
the round that you choose this character
Portraits of various iconic characters in ancient
SEA
Each character possesses unique special ability
to help player or sabotage opponents
Characters name and his religious affiliation
Character Card
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The Cards At a Glance
The number of gold pieces you need to pay to
build this building in your city
Illustrations of buildings with various iconic
architectural styles representing the various
cultures in SEA
Buildings name and category. There are 5
categories in 5 different coloured banners. The
categories are 1. Nobles 2. Religious 3.
Military 4. Trade 5. Monuments
Building Card
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Learning Outcome 1

• Open up students to the cultural context of South
  East Asia through attractive and iconic
  illustration
• Encourage historical empathy and imagination for
  more effective learning

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Learning Outcome 2

• The optimal solution to win the game is to select
  different character every turn while balancing
  between persevering with a strategy stubbornly
  and adapting according to opportunities present
• Repeatedly selecting the same character will
  severely limit players opportunities and make
  him / her highly vulnerable to sabotages
• The worst scenario is to slip into a vicious
  cycle of sabotaging each other due to
  irrational decisions

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Learning Outcome 2

• Thus the game and its mechanism actually
  simulates decisions that Singapore leaders have
  to make in order to develop our city into a
  prosperous cosmopolis.
• Factors related include
• Making pragmatic and logical decisions
• Hiring foreign talents the need to have racial
  harmony
• Managing relationship with other regional powers
  (players)

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Learning Outcome 3

• Players will also notice that the cities they
  have developed will have unique characteristics
  at the end of the game
• The characteristics of the cities are determined
  by the composition of the genre of buildings, in
  terms of religiosity and functionality, they have
  erected

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Learning Outcome 3

• Thus the game seeks to offer a likely explanation
  to an otherwise complicated question of why or
  how the nature of current ethnic religious
  inclination of various cities or states in SEA
  are as how they are today.
• As the players can experience for themselves,
  this reason is largely for survival as well as
  for reaping greater economic benefits.