A downloadable game for Windows

Game of the Dizzy Goose is an adaptation of the board game Game of the Goose. The objective is simple, your goose must reach the board before your opponent's goose does. Move fast, think fast, and be careful!! One wrong move might just cost you...


Controls

- Left and right Arrow Keys/D-pad keys to change selection

- Up arrow/D-pad key to show board when choosing cards.

Spacebar/ A (xbox) to select


Instructions

Setup and Objective

All players start at spot 0. The red player goes first. It is a race game: The first person to reach the final spot wins.

How to Play

Players take turns playing cards with different effects (See Cards), namely, the cards either move the players, rotate the rings, or set modifiers that alter the game flow. 

The movement is done forward. If during the movement the player reaches the final spot of the current ring then the next spot in its movement is the spot directly above the final spot of the current ring. 


If after moving:
- A Player lands on another piece, the piece that got landed on is sent to the spot where the moving piece started from in that turn (i.e. the two pieces swap places).
- A player lands on a special spot (picture of a goose, skull, bridge, crab) it is affected by that specific action (See Special Spots)


Winning the Game

To win the game, a piece must land exactly on the 36 spot. Any extra movement that is beyond spot 36 is done backward from the winning space. This means that if a player is in spot 34 and chooses to move 3 spots forward, their final position is 35.

Cards

After this card is played, a player can select which ring to set a constant rotation to. At the end of each turn, the selected ring will rotate 1 spot in the direction of the card.
After this card is played, a player can select which way to rotate the ring of the card's color by one spot.

After this card is played, the player moves forward on the board by the amount specified.

After this card is played, the player moves to the spot above the one they're currently on. If the player is on the upmost ring nothing happens.

After this card is played, any constant rotations stop having an effect.

Special Spots

  • Goose: Makes the player move forward by the same amount that it initially moved and in the same direction. If this causes the player to land on another special spot, it is also affected by the effects of that spot. If the player arrived at a goose spot by using a Move Up Card, then the player moves up again, if possible.
  • Bridge: Makes the player land on the other bridge spot. 
  • Skull: Makes the player that landed on this spot instantly loose.
  • Crab: Makes the player return to the place he was at the beginning of the turn.

Install Instructions

  • Download zip
  • Un-zip GameOfTheDizzyGoose.zip file
  • Inside the Release folder, run GameOfTheDizzyGoose.exe
  • Have Fun!

More info available in the documentation pdf.

Download

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GameOfTheDizzyGoose.zip 20 MB
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GameOfTheDizzyGoose - Documentation.pdf 986 kB

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