====== Game Overview ======

//Note: the game is in playable alpha with some scenes and content reaching beta status. Article was written by user @digital-wisdom with later edits by @elindos.//

EXODE is an immersive game experience.

You can access a demo of evacuation from [[https://exode.io|its website]], or create your own account by purchasing a starter there. This process will also create your blockchain account if you don't have one.

You can also explore the [[fictional-universe|base of its story]].

Or read below to learn to play the game!

==== Playing EXODE ====


=== Card Setup ===

To start a game in EXODE, you set up your own game by picking cards from your collection.

You must have **an [[origins|Origin]]**, a [[starships|Ship]],  and a number of [[characters|characters]] who will make up your  **Officers** and **Crew**.

You can optionally board **Passengers** and **Cargo** and equip Characters with [[weapons|Weapons]] and [[suits|Armor]]. You can also use [[escorts|Escorts]], **Equipment Sets** and other special cards.

Some of these are directly provided by your Starter and others can be acquired from players or other [[cards_packs|packs]].

Cards which do not have the //'Versatile'// trait will be restricted to the [[factions|Factions]] you play.

[[factions|Factions]] are provided by your Origin card, or by cards attached to your Origin, or even other cards in your deck, such as a Drachian Commissar.


=== Beginning your Game ===

When your launch your game, it sends a message to the blockchain which includes these cards, confirming your game.

Once the game is confirmed, the cards that you selected will then be locked to your current game and temporary characters and in-game assets will be generated from them. 

The cards will be unusable outside the game until the game ends -- even if a character dies or an asset  is destroyed.

//Developer Note: during alpha are still allowed to be use in other areas, to facilitate testing! //


EXODE starts with [[gameplay-evacuation|Evacuation]].

If you survive the evacuation scene, it will continue with [[gameplay-scanning|Scanning]].

If you survive scanning, you will receive a planet. All characters, weapons, armor and cargo - plus whatever you got during EVAC - will become your first citizens and assets on your planet.

You will then be able to play the more relaxed [[gameplay-colonization|Colonization]], which is in development. 

You will then be able to manage their colony, build structures, explore their planet, design new food and fuel, even repair your ship, explore the galaxy and/or create unique resources specific to their planetary discoveries.  To do so, you must give orders to your crew and citizens -- and make decisions when events will arise.


=== Ending your Game ===

A game of eXode does not have any fixed duration. But it notably ends when you **lose** or **abandon** your colony.

You get numerous types of [[rewards|rewards]] ([[rewards-mission|mission/quest rewards]], [[rewards-results|assets from discovery, collecting & crafting]], [[rewards-weekly|weekly rewards]] &  [[rewards-season|season rewards]]) during the game as long as your colony survives.  Also, the longer you do survive, the greater the rewards that you get at the end of the game.

When you end the game (with your colony destroyed by aliens for instance) you get some loot: these cards are called [[legacy-rewards|Legacy Rewards]] and are part of a unique loot table related to your starting Origin and launch cards.