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Faction: Gamiverses · Type: Digital · Price: €8.95 (excl tax) · Same Spell As: Quiz of Drawing · T-Rex Tells · Snakepaint · Fruity Finish · Comes Before: Fortis · Defend the Palishapes! · Tangram Games · Shapastimes

Snakepaint

Slither your snake across the grass Play icons matching the space where it should go All so that your snake’s wiggly body will show A simple drawing to complete at last

Snakepaint answers the question “what if the classic video game Snake was a board game?” The core idea of snake is really simple and really strong. Kids understand it and can play it, while it gives actual strategy and challenge. That’s why we wanted to translate it to an educational board game.

This game primarily tests the skills of matching and directions (spatial awareness).

  • Each round, you play a card from your hand. These cards show simple recognizable icons that are also on the field.
  • If your snake is next to that icon, it moves into that space (and grows one space longer).
  • If not, you don’t move, but are instead allowed to shorten your snake (by cutting off part of its tail)

Why are you doing all this? Because you want to make a drawing with your snake! You want the snake to look exactly like one of the simple “Figure Cards” on the table. That’s how this game also practices more fine-tuned visual matching ability, such as lines and drawings.

Congratulations, you can already enjoy a game of Snakepaint! The base game is cooperative and simultaneous, so you work together and don’t have to wait on your turn. This allows players to help other players and actually grow through the challenge.

But, of course, we’ve added ways to increase the challenge. Once kids are familiar with the base game, you can introduce simple upgrades that also practice numbers/counting (the length of your snake matters now), or pencil control/fine motor skills (you can draw your own Figure Cards and play the game with those!) You can also play competitively, snake against snake, with the upgrades.

All combined, this game is a fun, fast, simple way to learn those core skills in a variety of ways. By working together on a slithering snake, you try to make its path match your Figure Card, while also using matching to actually tell the snake where to go. As such, the game is textless and numberless, such that young kids can play on their own and you don’t need to have any knowledge of English.

The snakes have a unique color, but also a unique shape/pattern design. As such, it’s not required to print the material in color, although it does make the game look a lot prettier if you do!

Have fun!

REMARK! The final version of Snakepaint is quite different from the Snake video game we all know and love. We have two more game ideas planned that simulate Snake in different ways, but those are for Level 2 and Level 3 as they require counting and more advanced logic to play. We look forward to making those too!

Product Contents

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  • Rulebook PDF (1 front page with information and story, 1 page base game, 2 page upgrades)
  • Material PDF (4 pages with different maps to play on, 3 pages with icon cards, 1 page with colored snake parts, 2 pages with Figure Cards/Templates)
  • The raw assets (illustrations, layout file, etc) for you to view/edit. (As .af files, which you can open with the free Affinity software.)