Featured Game - Dinogenics

Featured games are our way of teaching new games and highlighting something we think our players may enjoy or take note of. We'll explain from scratch how to play the game with a detailed description and demonstrate a few turns, then break into tables to actually play it. Each week it'll be something new, but will run the spectrum of different lengths, complexities, themes, and game mechanics. So if this week's game doesn't interest you, feel free to look again next time around!

Dinogenics is a worker placement game in which players build a Jurassic Park-like dinosaur park. Each turn, players will place workers to various action spaces to expand and maintain their park, including options to get new DNA required to introduce new dinosaurs. However, in between these rounds, these dinosaurs need to be fed and housed according to their preferences, and failure to do so may cause them to rampage and destroy part of the structure or kill off visitors.

Dinogenics is a game for up to 5 players and should take about 1&1/2 to 2 hours for experienced players to play. It has a complexity of 2.92 according to BoardGameGeek, making it medium-hard complexity compared to games typically played here.

Read the rules here: https://www.ninthhaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Rulebook_DinoGenics_Final_12-31-19.pdf
Watch a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XAZT9zvnb8
If this is your first time with this group, you should see a link to our Discord group once you've signed up for this event. You may join any time before the event begins to get to know people, but once this event starts, we'll typically join the Lobby voice chat, then move to another voice chat once we've gotten started. Note that I, as the game teacher, will share my screen to show how the game works, but all other interaction will be voice only, no video, so no need to look presentable first. The game itself will be played using Board Game Arena - please create an account on this site beforehand.