Seku
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Seku is a traditional ‘folk’ game about balancing personal and team agendas. The initial prototype was designed for The Game design class at ITP. You can read more about the history behind Seku here.
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Object
The objective of Seku is to have the most civilian victory pieces when the game ends. The game ends when no more pieces can be placed on the board.
Materials
- playing board (grid)
- seku pieces (red)
- civilians pieces (yellow)
- temvi pieces (black)
- victory containers
Setup
The grid is placed between the players empty. Civilian and temvi pieces are distributed amongst all players. The pool of Seku pieces is given to the first Seku player.
Play
Seku is turned based, with a round of play completed when all players have played a turn. Seku plays last in every Round. Players alternate between the two roles of Seku and the role of Ketsa. At any given moment, One player is Seku and the rest are Ketsas. Only the player who is playing as Seku plays with seku pieces. Each player keeps civilian pieces they take from the board during Seku play in their victory containers and count them as victory points.
Play continues until there are no free spaces available on the grid. The player who has collected the most civilian pieces off the grid as Seku wins.
Playing as Ketsa
A Ketsa player must play two pieces in every turn. Ketsas can play with civilian pieces and temvi pieces. Any combination of the two kinds is acceptable as long as the placement is legal. 1 civ + 1 kets etc. Ketsas play civilian pieces by placing a piece anywhere on the grid in the predetermined box spaces. A temvi piece can be placed at either end of a line of three or more civilan pieces:
or in the space an arrow of civilian pieces points to.
any combination or expansion of these shapes is acceptable as long as one of the two original shapes is inside it.
Role of The temvi
if a Ketsa places a temvi piece on the board, Seku pieces cannot be placed on the spaces diagonal from that temvi.
Playing as Seku
The Seku player must play two Seku pieces in every turn. Seku can place his/her pieces on any empty grid spot EXCEPT for spots diagonal from temvi spots. if a Seku piece is placed next to a civilian piece, The Seku player takes that piece off the board and keeps it as a victory piece. A Seku piece takes as many civilian pieces that border it, by replacing them with seku pieces on the board. All Seku pieces placed on board are permanent in that position but do not perform any actions again.
When a seku piece is placed next to a temvi (horizontally) that temvi is replaced with a Seku piece. This replacement Seku piece can act upon its adjacent Ketsa pieces but only on one of any surrounding pieces. For example, if there are 2 civilian pieces and a temvi adjacent to it, the seku piece can replace the temvi piece or take one civilian piece.
Seku changover
the role of Seku changes every two rounds, from one player to another. Every player has the chance to be Seku. When a changeover is necessary, the next seku is the person to the left of the outgoing seku. The first person to play under a new Seku is the person to the left of the new Seku. Effectively, the new seku must WAIT for the end of the first round for his first turn at play.
