7 Grand Steps - Begetting around: early 2012.

MAKE FAMILY HISTORY

(c) 2011 Keith Nemitz. All rights reserved.

There is a wheel on which lives are lived, in a mechanical time machine.

Once, members of a dynasty romanced, raised children, aged, and passed the torch. Each cycle of the wheel, a new generation lived. Time advanced. Civilization changed. New challenges arose as generations passed.

In 7 Grand Steps, determine your legends: Climb in society. Dare to be a hero. Make discoveries that change the world.

Guide successive families along four tracks: laborers, artisans, high professions, and rulers. Families may climb high on the wheel, and they may fall. Survival has no caste. Make the best of every life. (but beware of crocodiles)

The game is operated by simply dragging tokens into slots. Each turn, compete with peers to reach beads. Collect enough beads to tell a legend... of discovery, of heroism, or of climbing in society (to the next higher track on the wheel).

More tokens let parents reach more places on the wheel. To advance, parents spend tokens. To make tokens, parents must retreat. Each turn, decide back or forth. Many strategies emerge to optimize the use and creation of tokens.

Also, every turn, the wheel turns, moving pawns closer to the crocodiles. Use tokens carefully, or your family line may end in a reptilian stomach.