Terraformer by Dougal E Harrison

Note: 19/01/16 - Amended rules. Rebalanced cards. An original game by Dougal E Harrison (Jax Boom). In Terraformer you are one of three alien races hell bent on colonising a planet. Before your colony can arrive you need to make the planet habitable for your species. Unfortunately, each race needs a very different atmosphere to survive. Your job as the commander of the terraforming advance party is to mine resources and build Terraformer plants. You must use strategy and cunning in a race against the other aliens who will stop at nothing to steal the planet for themselves. Each Alien race needs to convert enough of the atmosphere to gain an unstoppable advantage over the others. The first race to reach 100% of their goal wins. Is this game any fun? YES! As you play the game you will use; fortune cards to steal equipment and boost your mining operations, disaster cards to lay traps in the mining decks that your friends need, alien artefacts which offer massive bonuses and help counteract attacks. It is awesome when you watch a friend turn over a card they desperately need and suddenly their whole world crumbles around them! This sort of thing happens a lot! Gameplay example: It's your turn. You've already got 4 blue and 4 red resources. If you mine 3 yellow on this turn you'll have enough to build your first Terraformer. This will put you in the lead, you know it and they know it. You've only got one miner but you've been saving your cards; you've got a full hand. You roll the dice. 2 yellow! Instantly the other players lay traps on the yellow deck. You laugh and play 'Rich seam', that makes 4 yellow. You then equip x-ray specs, You ignore the top card. That means you only have to survive one trap and then the path is clear. You flip the card. Ah!, 'Seismic shuffle'. You roll the element die again! Phew, the colour stays yellow. You've lost one resource. That leaves three. It's still enough. You draw the next card. It's a fortune card. You're safe. You take one resou