Bloc by Bloc: The Insurrection Game

Be apart of social movements!

Short Description

Bloc by Bloc: The Insurrection Game is a semi-cooperative tabletop game inspired by 21st century protest movements, riots and popular uprisings. Each player controls a faction of revolutionaries – Workers, Students, Neighbours, or Prisoners – fighting against the State in the streets of a city that change with each game. Build barricades, clash with riot cops, occupy districts, loot shopping centers, and liberate the city before time runs out and the military arrives!
Bloc by Bloc features hidden agendas, deep strategy, area control, asymmetrical player abilities, and a special method for randomly generating billions of unique city layouts. Bloc by Bloc 2nd edition features brand new art, streamlined gameplay, improved components and new objectives for the insurrection!

Educational Value

• Develop personal and professional skills – communication, strategy, teamwork, systematic thinking, cooperation, engagement
• Knowledge about protests, movements and democracy

Recommendations for use

• For people from 13 years

Tips and tricks

How to adapt game for different groups, topics, occasions/needs: The game can be used as an icebreaker for a discussion with a focus on protests and movements
Feedback questions
What can I learn from this activity?
Did you ever participate in a movement or protest?
Which strategy worked best?
What competences can you develop through this game? 
What do I know about the importance of social engagement?
How powerful can a protest be?
Further discussion topics

• Politics
• Protests
• Cooperation