Downforce, we've got Downforce here!
High-stakes bidding on million-dollar race cars. Frantic bets placed in secret even as the cars race around the track. And to the victor, the biggest purse of all. But in the world of motor racing, the margin between victory and defeat can be a single moment: a steep banked turn, tires screaming and spitting out smoke, and the downforce, pressing you down in your seat and keeping you on the track as you make your move inside to pull ahead.
Downforce is a card-driven bidding, racing, and betting game for 2-6 players based on Top Race, the award-winning design by the legendary Wolfgang Kramer.
Players first bid to own the six cars in the race, then they play cards from their hand to speed them around the track. However, most cards will also move their opponents' cars. So figuring out just the right time to play a card is the key to victory. Along the way, players make secret bets on who they think will win the race. Whoever has the most money from their prize money, winning bets, and remaining bank wins.
This is a game whose design needed no attention. Years of play and multiple versions have honed it to near perfection. On the contrary, one of the design challenges was figuring which of the many rules modules to incorporate to create the most fun version. Downforce also adds variable player powers to improve replayability. But mostly, it improves the look of the game to make it gorgeous and easy to play. Special attention was paid to the colors, the layout of the cards, the design of the cars, the details on the board, and more.
You get it : it's impressive, but easy to play.
You can try the game right here :
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=downforce
PLEASE NOTE
*The boards "Switchback Pass" and "Crosstown Speedway" from "DANGER CIRCUIT" expansion, as well as "Aloha Island" from "WILD RIDE" expansion pack ARE available to play.
BUT the new special abilities from "DANGER CIRCUIT" expansion pack as well as the "Savannah Stretch" board from the "WILD RIDE" expansion are NOT available yet.*
The team would like to thank, of course, Restoration Games for making it possible to have this game here, as well as Rob Daviau, Justin D. Jacobson and Wolfgang Kramer for their wonderful game.
A very special thank you goes to our developer, bdrieu, who did an amazing labor of love porting the game to BGA.
And to finish, a quote from Jeremy Clarkson :
Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you.
DOWNFORCE: Hvis du har kontrollen, kører du ikke hurtigt nok!
Downforce, vi har Downforce her!
Højrisiko budkrig på racerbiler til millioner.
Hektiske væddemål placeret i hemmelighed, selv mens bilerne kører rundt på banen.
Og til sejrherren, den største præmie af alle.
Men i motorsportens verden kan margenen mellem sejr og nederlag være et enkelt øjeblik: et stejlt, banket sving, dæk der skriger og ryger, og downforce, der presser dig ned i dit sæde og holder dig på banen, mens du laver dit træk indad for at rykke i front.
Downforce er et kort-drevet byde, racing, og væddemål spil for 2-6 spillere baseret på Top Race, den prisvindende design af den legendariske Wolfgang Kramer.
Spillerne byder først på at eje de seks biler i løbet, derefter spiller de kort fra deres hånd for at køre dem hurtigt rundt på banen.
De fleste kort vil imidlertid også flytte deres modstanders biler.
Så det at finde det helt rigtige tidspunkt at spille et kort er nøglen til sejr.
Undervejs foretager spillere hemmelige væddemål på, hvem de tror, vil vinde løbet.
Hvem der har flest penge samlet fra deres præmiepenge, vundne væddemål og resterende formue vinder.
Dette er et spil, hvis design ikke behøvede nogen opmærksomhed.
Flere års spil og flere versioner har finpudset det til næsten perfektion.
Tværtimod, en af designudfordringerne var at finde ud af, hvilke af de mange regelmoduler, der skulle inkorporeres for at skabe den sjoveste version.
Downforce tilføjer også variable spilleregenskaber for at forbedre genspilbarheden.
Men for det meste forbedrer det udseendet på spillet for at gøre det smukt og let at spille.
Der blev lagt særlig vægt på farverne, kortenes layout, bilernes design, detaljer på pladen og mere.
Du forstår: det er imponerende, men let at spille.
Du kan prøve spillet lige her:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=downforce
BEMÆRK VENLIGST
Banerne "Switchback Pass" og "Crosstown Speedway" fra "DANGER CIRCUIT" -udvidelsen, samt "Aloha Island" fra "WILD RIDE" -udvidelsespakken ER tilgængelige til at spille.
MEN de nye specielle egenskaber fra "DANGER CIRCUIT" -udvidelsespakken såvel som "Savannah Stretch"-banen fra "WILD RIDE" -udvidelsen er IKKE tilgængelige endnu.
Holdet vil naturligvis gerne takke Restoration Games for at have gjort det muligt at have dette spil her, samt Rob Daviau, Justin D.
Jacobson og Wolfgang Kramer for deres vidunderlige spil.
Særligt tak til vores udvikler, bdrieu, der gjorde et forbløffende passioneret arbejde med at overføre spillet til BGA.
Og til slut, et citat fra Jeremy Clarkson:
Hastighed har aldrig dræbt nogen, pludseligt at holde stille... det er det, der får dig.