https://github.com/danaugrs/royal-ur

Ancient two-player strategy race board game
https://github.com/danaugrs/royal-ur

ancient board-game boardgame game mesopotamia racegame royal-game-of-ur strategy unity unity3d

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Ancient two-player strategy race board game

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/danaugrs/royal-ur
• Owner: danaugrs
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2018-12-27T16:46:52.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-19T18:39:04.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-03-19T19:39:40.767Z (11 months ago)
• Topics: ancient, board-game, boardgame, game, mesopotamia, racegame, royal-game-of-ur, strategy, unity, unity3d
• Language: C#
• Homepage: https://danaugrs.github.io/royal-ur/
• Size: 102 MB
• Stars: 12
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Royal Ur is my 3D implementation of the ancient [Royal Game of Ur](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Game_of_Ur) played around 4500 years ago in Mesopotamia. It was built with [Unity](https://unity3d.com/).

I tried to go for a very clean and universal design, without using text at all. I was inspired to create this game after watching the following great video:

### [Watch: Tom Scott vs Irving Finkel: The Royal Game of Ur](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I)

[![Tom Scott vs Irving Finkel: The Royal Game of Ur | PLAYTHROUGH | International Tabletop Day 2017](http://img.youtube.com/vi/WZskjLq040I/0.jpg)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I "Video Title")

## Objective

Run all your pieces through the course and out before your opponent.

## Rules

Piece movements are determined by rolling four pyramid-shaped dice. Two of the four corners of each die are marked, giving each die a 50% chance of landing with a marked or unmarked corner facing up.

After rolling, the total number of marked ends facing upwards indicates how many spaces a player may move during that turn.

Players are required to move a piece whenever possible, even if it results in an unfavorable outcome.

Rolling a zero will automatically skip your turn. Sometimes it is impossible to move the indicated amount of spaces and the turn is also automatically skipped.

If a player lands a piece on a space already occupied by one of their opponent's pieces, the opponent's piece is captured and sent back to the beginning, off the board.

The spaces that have a mandala are special. Landing in one of them will grant a second roll of the dice. In addition, pieces on mandala spaces can't be captured.

To exit a piece off the board at the end of the course the player must roll the exact number of spaces remaining plus one.

## Support

I hope you enjoy playing and learning from Royal Ur as much as I enjoyed making it.

If you come across any issues, please [report them](https://github.com/danaugrs/royal-ur/issues).