BRAVE Games
BRAVE games are board game history games, longform games that take 5, one-hour sessions to play. Each game explores a different era/region, whereby a class is divided into 5 or 6 teams and tasked to reveal their competitive advantage. Next, student-led teams buy, sell & trade game pieces–natural resources, commodities, tools and land in a quest to unravel the forces that led to change over time. All games are sold separately but are played on the same board game surface: a 4’x6’ map of North America that’s easy to clean, roll & store. Game contents are shipped and stored in a 12” x 12” box with original artwork, including game instructions, small game pieces, player reading materials for each team, and a Storyteller role to guide your class as they level up
Alliance Diplomatique
A clever take on statecraft whereby six teams across colonial North America meet the triple challenge of nation building, international diplomacy, and economic sustainability. Iroquois Confederacy, Britain, 13 Colonies, France, New France & the Wabanaki Confederacy—we know which team wins this game. The question is, what empowers nations to thrive over time?
Hopewell
Welcome to Hopewell. A call to Federalist and farmer, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cajun, Creole & Free People of Color. Here, students explore the Hopewell Treaty era by revealing the Yazoo Land Fraud, the Compact of 1802, the Louisiana Purchase, War of 1812, the Era of Good Feelings, the Marshall Trilogy and more! Because if the balance of power is stolen, history has its eyes on you.
PODER
Just because you can, does that mean you should? With PODER, students create a head-spinning model of Manifest Destiny. From commodity deals in Louisiana and trade fairs in Santa Fe; from the Alamo, the Battle of San Jacinto and the Texas Republic; to a lone soldier breaking the chain of command in Alta California! The trick is clearing the gap between power and protocol.
Bozeman Trail
Set against the backdrop of the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie, this illegal short-cut off the Oregon Trail explores the nature of boom & bust economies across the Northern Plains from six viewpoints. Learning culminates as teams race to manage the 2016 Standing Rock/Dakota Pipeline conflict using the game’s original constraint. Because Tribal treaties aren’t history , they’re federal law.
