*It's dark and it's rainy.
Maybe a bit foggy.
It's midnight.
And obviously, you're in London. Right?
Running the streets,
Not looking for treats,
But a murderer to arrest.
Will he get some rest?
Welcome to another game from Bruno Cathala! But not only, as he's been joined by Ludovic Maublanc, another famous board game designer.
Mr Jack is a 2 players game where the goal is to guess who is Jack, and to arrest him. Or Her.
All the salt comes from this simple rule:
At the beginning, a player will be Mr Jack, trying to escape from London before being caught.
The other one has to find out which character is the murderer and stop him/her before they can escape the city.
What's clever in here is that you're not playing 1 character only: You will play most (if not all) of them.
Each of them has special abilities.
For example, Ms Stealthy can go through buildings.
If you're the detective, you can move her quickly close to another character, to find out if he's innocent.
If you're Mr Jack, you can try to give fake informations by making her run closer to one of the exits if you're not that character.
BUT you can also try to reach the street really quick.
If there are no light poles on the way.
What about going through the sewers?
And could I move the police cordon to free the way in time?
What if I get in the way of Watson's torchlight?
Will Mr Gull be available next turn?
It's all about this.
It's like playing the last scene of a murder movie, from which you have no clue about the ending.
You have to be clever. Very clever to win. Maybe also a bit lucky.
Did he saw that you moved here?
Mr Jack is a very good seller worldwide and one of the reasons is that it's pretty straightforward.
Rules are simple and a game can be finished in less than 15 minutes.
You can, of course, rematch to change the roles.
We like it so much that we prepared a very nice implementation of the game.
Animations, sounds (yeah, gaslights shouldn't sound like a neon-one, but gas makes no interesting sounds. We tried.)
You can also activate or deactivate the visual hints, to experience the game like the real one.
A lot of love has been brought to this adaptation that is now available on BGA.
You can give it a try by clicking here:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=mrjack
The game is available to play for all, but like all Premium games, you'll need to find an open game from a subscriber if you're not already one of them 😉
All of our thanks goes to the game designers, Bruno Cathala & Ludovic Maublanc, and the publisher Hurrican for their help into bringing the game here.
But most importantly, we would like to thank Jurica or Joezg in here, the BGA developer that worked on this game with much love, patience and passion: that's part of why he is now a member of the BGA team.
Enjoy this game before next week's madness:
Brace yourself,
Essen Spiel is coming.
開膛手傑克:這不是萬聖節裡簡單的“傑克南瓜燈”
天色深深,夜雨沉沉。
雲霧之間,
子夜時分。
顯而易見,你在倫敦。
對吧?
跑到街上,
不找零食,
只為疑凶。
他會有片刻的休息嗎?
歡迎來到Bruno Cathala設計的又一款遊戲!
但不僅他一人,更有另一位著名的桌遊設計師Ludovic Maublanc的加入。
開膛手傑克是一款兩人遊戲,遊戲目標是猜測誰是傑克,並逮捕他,
或者她。
所有的部分都來自這個簡單的規則:
一開始,一名玩家將扮演開膛手傑克,他試圖從倫敦逃脫而不被抓捕。
另一名玩家必須查明誰是兇手,並在阻止他/她逃離城市。
這裡的巧妙之處在於,你不只扮演一個角色:你將扮演大多數(即使不是全部)角色。
他們每個人都有各自的技能。
例如, “神秘小姐”可以穿過建築物。
如果你是偵探,則可以將她迅速移到另一個角色附近,以確定是否無辜。
如果你是開膛手傑克,如果你不是那個人物,可以嘗試她靠近出口來故弄玄虛。
但是也可以嘗試快速到達街道。
如果途中沒有電線桿的話。
穿過下水道後怎麼辦?
我可以移動警戒線,方便我及時逃脫嗎?
如果我擋住了華生醫生的手電筒該怎麼辦?
古爾爵士下一輪可以被使用嗎?
就是這樣,
這就像在播放一部謀殺電影的最後一幕一樣,你猜不透結局。
你必須要足智多謀。
老謀深算以取勝。
也許亦需要點運氣。
他看到你移動這裡了嗎?
開膛手傑克在全世界銷量很好,其中原因是遊戲直接,
規則簡單,15分鐘內便玩完。
當然,你可以重新比賽以更改角色。
我們非常喜歡它,因此我們實現了一個非常不錯的遊戲功能。
動畫,聲音(的確,瓦斯燈不應該聽起來像霓虹燈,但是瓦斯燈沒有有趣的聲音。
我們盡力了。)
你還可以啟用或停用視覺提示,以像實體版桌遊一樣體驗遊戲。
很多人喜歡BGA對這遊戲所套用的配置。
你可以通過點擊此處嘗試一下:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=mrjack
該遊戲可供所有人遊玩,但像所有尊榮會員遊戲一樣,如果你還不是尊榮會員,則需要從會員那裡找到一個已開放的遊戲來加入。
我們要感謝遊戲設計師Bruno Cathala和Ludovic Maublanc以及發行商Hurrican的幫助,將遊戲帶到了這裡。
但最重要的是,我們要感謝Jurica或Joezg ,他是BGA開發人員,以極大的熱情,耐心和熱情從事了這款遊戲:這就是他現在成為BGA團隊成員的原因之一。
趕緊享受這款遊戲,在下周的瘋狂來臨前:
打起精神來,
埃森遊戲展(Essen Spiel)要來了。