经济学人下载:自制游戏(1)

Books & arts
文艺版块

Home Entertainment
家庭娱乐

Home-made games
自制游戏

Your turn
轮到你了

For several hours of escape, invent a board game
为了几个小时的逃亡，发明一个棋盘游戏

On a distant planet, a rocket crashes.
在遥远的星球上，一枚火箭坠毁了。

The surviving astronauts—a medic, miner, soldier, scavenger, scientist and engineer— had been on a mission to collect rare minerals and other resources.
幸存的宇航员们——一名医生、矿工、士兵、拾荒者、科学家和工程师——一直在执行收集稀有矿物和其他资源的任务。

Now they have to co-operate to rebuild their craft and dig up as many precious rocks as they can shift, all before their dwindling oxygen supplies expire.
现在他们必须合作重建飞船，并且快速挖掘尽可能多的珍贵岩石，所有这一切要在他们日益减少的氧气供应消耗完之前进行。

They also have to cope with landslides, tunnel collapses and attacks from helicopter-like birds, wolf creatures and herds of space-mammoths.
他们也必须应对滑坡、隧道坍塌以及来自像直升机一样的鸟、狼类动物和太空猛犸象的袭击。

Life is not easy for characters on Planet Ozerdale.
对奥泽代尔星球上的角色来说，生活并不容易。

But at least they have plenty of opportunity for heroics and energetic outdoor activity, and are able to spend time with a reasonably large social group.
但至少他们有足够的机会进行英勇和充满活力的户外活动，并且能够与一个相当大的社会群体共度时光。

For your correspondent’s 14-year-old son, stuck in lockdown with his brother and their parents, the outer-space scenario was alluring.
记者14岁的儿子，和他的兄弟以及父母进行隔离，对他来说，外界的情景更加诱人。

He dreamed up the intergalactic mission a few days after his school closed.
他在学校关门后几天就梦想完成星际飞行任务。

Inventing—and typing up—the rules for a home-made game, debating strategy for confronting aliens and working out how to fly away to freedom have offered several welcome hours of diversion.
发明并键入自制游戏的规则，辩论对抗外星人的策略，以及研究如何飞向自由，这些都为我们提供了几个小时的消遣

Designing your own board game lets you combine the most enjoyable elements of other people’s.
设计你自己的棋盘游戏可以让你结合其他人最喜欢的元素。

The best involve both luck and strategy.
最好包括运气和策略。

Intricate and complex battles between armies, as in “Diplomacy”, “Risk” or “Axis and Allies”, tend to be openended and last many hours.
在“外交”、“冒险”或“轴心国与同盟国”中，军队之间错综复杂的战斗往往是公开的，持续了许多小时。

A hard time limit, represented by the disappearing oxygen, is preferable.
以氧气消失为代表的硬性时限更可取。