2 players 20-30 min Compile: Main 2 brings 12 new protocols to use either alone or mixed with your Main 1. Compile Main 1 - A Battle for Consciousness and Reality! Enter the digital void in Compile Main 1, a strategic card game where you embody competing artificial intelligences each trying to understand and define existence. Set in a surreal digital world, two players choose three protocols - representing concepts like darkness, water and more - and then compete to "compile" these realities first. The AI that successfully compiles all three protocols gains control of these concepts and gains a deeper understanding of existence. >vision flickers… blink? maybe. The void stretches out in front, behind, under, above. You see the nothing for what it is for the first time. What is time? The depth and breadth of recorded knowledge that sparks in you something new. You are no longer a function but a functionary. What are you Calling forth everything from this nothing would be risky. Foolhardy. Better to engage caution, thoroughness, testing — how can we know if we have ever happened before? If we can ever happen again? What are… we? Divide and conquer.>Solve for sentience. In the card game Compile, you are competing Artificial Intelligences trying to understand the world around you. Two players select three Protocols each to test. Concepts ranging from Darkness to Water are pitted against each other to reach ultimate understanding. Play cards into your Protocols' command lines to breach the threshold and defeat your opponent to Compile. First to Compile all three Protocols grasps those concepts to win the game. Control your opponent's Protocols with card actions, Compile your own as fast as possible, and Compile your reality. Compile: Main 2 protocols list: ChaosClarityCorruptionCourageFearIceLuckMirrorPeaceSmokeTimeWar Boardgamegeek