Definitions

[mikeh]

Can someone help me with these terms.

Bag building

Worker placement

Tower defense

The last term I have heard before but still have no idea what it means.

Thanks

[Whiterook]

Bag Building is a variegation on a deck building game. It’s a game mechanism in which players add identically shaped items to a bag (coins, beans, cubes, etc.) to alter the contents and probabilities of drawing these items from that bag. In essence, bag building is to drawing-items-from-a-bag as deck building to to drawing-cards-from-a-deck. From my understanding, this is Euro game territory.

Worker Placement are games where each player has a team of workers, which they may choose to place on different actions. A set of actions are available to all players, and each player must select which ones to take on their turn. The player places their worker on an available space and fully executes the associated action. Think in terms such as a U-boat… each crew has a job to do…I imagine it’s like that.

Tower Defense is way out of my wheelhouse of knowledge! …it’s a derivation of the video game world. It’s basically a subgenre of strategy games where the goal is to defend a player's territories or possessions by obstructing the enemy attackers, or by stopping enemies from reaching the exits, usually achieved by placing defensive structures on or along their path of attack. This typically means building a variety of different structures that serve to automatically block, impede, attack or destroy enemies. Tower defense is seen as a subgenre of real-time strategy video games, due to its real-time origins, even though many modern tower defense games include aspects of turn-based strategy. Strategic choice and positioning of defensive elements is an essential strategy of the genre.

[mikeh]

Wow! Thanks for taking the time to answer all that. I thought Tower Defense had something to do with video games. I saw a game advertised today that said it uses all the above mentioned mechanics. All's I can remember right now is it had the word Hegra or Hedra in it. A solitaire game on the Norwegian resistance in WW2.