History of Forest Village
A village-building game with worker placement and a growing row of cards – two ideas that became popular in board games around the year 2000.
Placing workers
In many board games that appeared in Europe around the turn of the millennium, players put their figures on action fields: a field that is taken is blocked for the others until the next round. This idea, today called worker placement, became one of the most common ways of building up a farm, a town or a trade in board games.
Cards in front of you
Cards stay in your village after building. Some give an immediate reward; production cards pay again after every second squirrel you send.
Forest Village in PaperGames
Forest Village combines worker placement, a small open card row and production triggered by sending squirrels. It has its own forest map where the first squirrel on a field gets an extra, 50 cards in five habitats, three resources, a year that all players go through together and squirrels that come with a growing village. Computer games helped to set the small head start of the later seats.