Salted goods is a 16th century trade game in which players set out to start the East India trading company beginning with an unusually large warehouse of Salt.
Players control the game from a war table. They establish trading routes with the ports available to them and set up buy and sell orders to try and turn a profit and they can also have political dealings both in government and with other traders in an effort to further their aims. As the game progresses they gain access to more ports and goods that they can trade in and new ships they can develop and use. Throughout gameplay a variety of events will occur to which the player must respond such as storms, piracy, sicknesses and wars. Players can respond to these in a variety different ways which will have different effects on their trading prospects.
Salted Goods is a basic trading game designed to be historically accurate and give a degree of insight into the time period and the challenges the East India Trading Company may have faced while also bringing to light the potential (which was explored by the company) for them to abuse their power and partake in actions of questionable moral value.
●Historically Accurate
●Interesting moral issues that have been approached in history
●Challenging
