Jafabit 2 is coming

July 31, 2021April 17, 2023 | jafabit

I’m excited to announce, over the upcoming weeks I’ll be updating the website for Jafabit 2. What is Jafabit 2? It’s Jafabit, improved.

Through years of play testing and feedback from close friends, I’ve made changes to the original mechanics and rules to accommodate those changes.

I will be selling limited copies of Jafabit 2. They will be expensive, because they will be handmade by me and I have bills to pay and I still have investments to make. Think of them as collectors editions? But please don’t treat them as such, the game is meant to be played.

Thank you, friends and family, for your support.

Game Photo

February 24, 2019April 17, 2023 | Nate

What is Jafabit?

Jafabit is a modular board-game for 2 or more players that plays on a honeycomb map that you build new every game. A typical game lasts about an hour. The game is reminiscent of Chess and features a resource control and well-balanced luck mechanics where the pieces themselves are actually the dice!

Example Game Setup

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What’s all this mean? Endless hours of fun.

Jafabit Board

March 13, 2019November 3, 2022 | Nate

The Jafabit board has come a long way…

From this prototype of the game that evolved into Jafabit: jaf_proto_orig

To this prototype of the first true Jafabit board: jafabit_board_original

To a version of the game where color-coded d20 dice were the pieces and I had teleport tiles: jafabit_dnd_dice

To a completely modular game that’s easy to set up and play: modular

And to this: A fun 15 minute game between three friends: qik_game

Jafabit is more than just a game, it’s an entire new board-game system and the board is the foundation for the fun.

Septiles

February 21, 2019November 3, 2022 | Nate

Septiles

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What is a septile? It’s a tile consisting of seven hexagonal tiles of varying heights as seen pictured above.

In the game of Jafabit you move player pieces around on a board that you build using seven (or more) septiles. This modularity allows for countless game-boards to play on.

Each tile within a septile has a color and a height. The colors are:

Brown – Representing Farm-lands
Green – Representing Forests
Gray – Representing Mountains
Red – Representing Lava Fields
White – Representing Mountain Peaks
Blue – Representing Bodies of Water
Gold – Representing Gold Mines

There are four unique heights for Jafabit tiles. Tile height grants advantage and disadvantage to player pieces standing on them.

A Jafabit map is built by selecting a center septile and placing six other septiles around it.

A Jafabit 2 map is built with at least three septiles.

There are hundreds of possible combinations. Mixing Jafabit sets results in even more!

Chess-Dice

February 20, 2019November 3, 2022 | Nate

Pieces pieces

What are the pieces in Jafabit? The pieces are stylized after Chess pieces and dice.

Each player has their own color set of chess-dice.

The pieces are as follows:

Pawn, 4 Sided – Featured in Brown
Knight, 8 Sided -Featured in Green
Bishop, 8 Sided – Featured in Red
Queen, 12 Sided- Featured in White
Castle, 8 Sided – Featured in Gold

When pieces interact (via combat or special abilities) both pieces are rolled to determine the outcome. This eliminates the need for any separate dice and grants a tiered randomness to the game.

If one piece lands standing up, that player loses the roll (critical miss). If both land standing up? Jafabit!