Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
¿Would you like to play a basketball match on a table at home? Now you can...
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Action Queue
Place actions into an ordered queue that resolves now or on later turns.
Area Movement
Move pieces between connected regions rather than along individual spaces.
Dice Rolling
Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Variable Player Powers
Each player has different abilities, restrictions, or strategic advantages.
Simulation
Model a real or imagined system through detailed cause-and-effect rules.
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¿Would you like to play a basketball match on a table at home? Now you can... BASKETBALL age is a basketball simulator for 2 persons that recreates an exciting basketball match. You´re one of the two team coaches facing off. You have to choose your “starting lineup” on the court to win the match. As in a normal match, your players will move around a basketball court, divided in zones where the players perform basketball actions. Each player has his own skills (play skill, movement points, passing, scoring % and height). Players skills are different according to their position. Court players are activated and perform their actions one by one and in alternating way (attacker-defender and so on) until the end of possession or turn over. Attacking team has a turn to score. It consists of 10 attacking player´s activation, or the buzzer will sound. You can activate the same player in a row as many times as you want. Following a simple rules and rolling dice (six sided and ten sided dice) you´ll be able to perform all kind of basketball actions like passes, rebounds, fouls, freethrows, blocks, pick& roll, steals, two-point shots, lay ups, three-pointers, dunks.... ¿Have you got what it takes to lead your team to victory?