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Nov 19, 2023·Playthrough·22:26·387·Watch on YouTube

37 University Students play ALLIANCE The Ultimate Political Science Megagame at Dartmouth College

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Description provided by Best Class Ever on YouTube:

Designed by designer, illustrator, and high school teacher, Shaun D. McMillan, ALLIANCE can be played by as few as 5 players or as many as 72. Players work together to lead their nation-teams towards peace using economic strategies, defensive strategies, negotiations, and creative technologies based on each player’s inspiration. The game is a blend of tabletop RPG and board game mechanics. It has been played in multiple cities of America, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Maylasia, and Canada by middle school students, high school students, and university students. The players roleplay as world leaders and may collaborate, compete, collude, coerce, negotiate, and create businesses, scientific inventions, and new technologies to solve all the world’s crises to ultimately achieve the epic win, world peace. Learn more at https://www.bestclassever.org/gbl-toolkit/

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ALLIANCE: The Ultimate World Leader Political Science MegaGame

ALLIANCE: The Ultimate World Leader Political Science MegaGame

2015·Shaun D McMillan

3 - 72 players
180 - 240 min

About ALLIANCE: The Ultimate World Leader Political Science MegaGame, from BoardGameGeek:

Designed by professional graphic designer, illustrator, and game designer, Shaun D. McMillan, ALLIANCE can be played by as few as 3 players or as many as 100. Easily expandable, it can be played with small groups, entire classrooms, or large combined groups. Players work together to lead their nation-teams towards peace using economic strategies, defensive strategies, negotiations, and creative technologies based on each player's endless imagination. They may collaborate, compete, collude, coerce, negotiate, and create businesses, scientific inventions, and new technologies to solve all the world's crises to ultimately achieve the epic win, world peace. ALLIANCE is a megagame. Megagames are played by thirty plus players who all play different roles on different nation-teams simultaneously through a series of timed game days. Through a combination of table top RPG mechanics, board game mechanics, war game mechanics, and live action roleplay, players become world leaders of various different nation-teams and try to achieve world peace together. Though there is competition, in the end they all win together or they all lose together. ALLIANCE has been played all over the world including Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, and in multiple states of America including Houston, New York, Los Angeles, and Milwaukee by combinations of adults, college students, high schoolers, and middle schoolers in multiple languages. It has also been through multiple iterations. In 2016 it was first played at Gen Con, and the sequel, ALLIANCE Last Days was played by 100 players at Gen Con in 2017. In 2025 ALLIANCE will feature the newest version of the game as it comes upon its 10th year anniversary. The game is available at MyMegagame.com -description from the designer

Designer

Shaun D McMillan

Publisher

Self-published

Categories

EducationalPolitical

Mechanics

Cooperative GameRole Playing
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