DAKOTA 1877

A living journal of the game's journey from concept to table.
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STAKE YOUR CLAIM. BUILD YOUR TOWN. OWN YOUR LEGACY.

The first manufactured prototype is here!

After a couple of months of hard work finalising the rules, the designs and adapting everything to the manufacturers' templates, some shiny new components showed up at our door! This was all very exciting, and it made the following playtest sessions feel much more like a regular game night with a finished product; players were genuinely surprised by the components quality and smoothness of the gameplay.

Unboxing and Components Preview

Dive in and get an up close view and explanation of all the components

Full Rulebook

The rules have now stabilised and we designed and printed the first rulebook, here you can download a digital version and have a read!

Download the Rulebook now!

The Player Board

The core of the game experience, players will start from just a house and workshop and build up their mining town.

The Day-Round board

This board was made to help players remember what happens every round.
Each round is structured like a day, with different things happening in each phase.

Worker hiring and resource selling board

Specialists worker are drawn at random from a bag each day.

The resource market has a base cost at which you can sell resources, but if selling in groups, better deals can be obtained, but hurry! the slots for those special deals are limited each day!

Components

Here are some examples of game components created so far

Playtest Gallery

Just some examples of some fun we had in the past playtest sessions!

Next Steps

Rules finalisation

Following numerous playtest sessions we are now ready to freeze the first draft of the rules, and we will work on improving clarity and structure.

Now Completed!

Tabletop Simulator

Will work on digitalising all the assets to allow further playtesting on tabletop simulator

Now Completed!

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Creation of a
high quality prototype

I will be bringing the game to UKGE in 2026 for playtesting and presenting to publishers, I'll make a great looking prototype to bring the game to life!

Now Completed!