So we have been given our first project to design and create our own board game. We immediately began by talking about successful pre-existing games and what exactly it was that had made them so successful. With this in mind we then began to concept a game of our own.
Mt initial idea was something of a two part game- Which commenced in a typical "traversing across the board towards a common goal" style of play. However the player would be dealt a hand of "monster cards" at the beginning of the game ready to do battle with at the final point of the game which would ultimately decide the winner. As we developed this idea we decided there could be multiple paths across the board where players could pick up various "boost cards" with the intention of optimizing their hand to its multiple potential.
Our next step was to make our way over to a local toy store "Langleys" where we examined various examples of different board games for inspiration. Looking at these games made us realise that our intial concept may be too complicated for the age group we had in mind and within a couple of hour we had scrapped it and were working on a new idea.
The new plan was for a native american themed game aimed at young children which had players racing against each other in order to collect up and complete their tribe's totem pole- thus winning the game. With the basic concept of our game in mind we assigned various roles in the creation of the game to different group members- mine being the creation and design of the box, and proceeded to work further at home on our ideas.
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