Project Grottan 2013-10-09

For the coming weeks my group from the course “Advanced Game Design” will be working on a board game of our own. The game idea that we came up with is a round-based exploration game called Grottan (Working Title). The core idea is similar to games such as Betrayal and the Dungeons and Dragons board games where the players get to explore a collapsed cave using tiles. The final goal of the game is to find one of the three […]

Project Grottan 2013-10-09

For the coming weeks my group from the course “Advanced Game Design” will be working on a board game of our own. The game idea that we came up with is a round-based exploration game called Grottan (Working Title). The core idea is similar to games such as Betrayal and the Dungeons and Dragons board games where the players get to explore a collapsed cave using tiles. The final goal of the game is to find one of the three […]

Serious Game -Board Game

(This is a short summary of today’s Serious Game-course.)The last step of the course Serious Games is for each group of students to create a board game. A board game with the purpose to highlight or address an issue or problem of some sort. I sat down …

Everybody is a n00b.. jam

Last week I stood in front  of the whole class for the first time and spoke of my teams analyze of the games we had played together (Gloom, Kingdoms & Conspiracy X). I wasn’t alone on the stage, with me I had Mariam and Sebastian which were great support for me. Probably I wouldn’t had gone up on the stage alone because I’ve always thought that its embarrassing and I get extremely nervous and start to shake like an aspen […]

Serious games boardgame start and Advanced game design Continueation

Today we got a assignment from the serious game course, to make a serious board game about a up to date topic. Me and my group came up with a basic concept about the homeless in Stockholm. We needed it to be small and precise in order to be able to convey the message through a board game.
We then started thinking about what the best way of conveying this to the player would be. Being shown from the homeless perspective […]

Been working on the concept for Group 9′s game in photoshop.
Started drawing a concept for an antagonists, but looks like it’s not going to be used. I just about got past the sketching stage.
Esbjörn drew a concept for the protagonist which i really liked, so I want to keep going in that style. Ladbon thought it needed some touching up, so I fixed that. This is what it looks like now:

Narratives and Characters

So this post will be about today’s lecture about narratives and characters. 
First up on stage, give it up for the Narratives.
Everything we have done here since I arrived on this island has been so much fun! And today was no exception, since narratives and strong characters are one of the things that I love with (some) video games. We went through the different approaches to writing a good story, like the 3 and 9 act and also “the Hero’s […]

Learning Video Game Design – Making Board Games

Time for a quick post.
Even though I’m reading two courses about video game design right now, I’m currently tasked with making a board game (in a group) in each course. Why is that? In my opinion, the reason for this is because video games and board games has more stuff in common than most people might think when it comes to the design part of the respective kind of game. For example, if you break down a strategy video games […]

Final Project in Serious Games

It’s a lot of posting going on at the moment but it has to be done. Today we got our final assignment in Serious games. We are to develop a board game on a serious subject. So now I have two group assignment that both have to do with making a board game, I can’t wait to see how it goes.
It is a group project and for this friday we are going to have a concept document done with our […]

Final Project in Serious Games

It’s a lot of posting going on at the moment but it has to be done. Today we got our final assignment in Serious games. We are to develop a board game on a serious subject. So now I have two group assignment that both have to do with making a board game, I can’t wait to see how it goes.
It is a group project and for this friday we are going to have a concept document done with our […]

How to manage a team

Being a lead designer is hard. You have to keep up with both your artists, programmers and keep getting information and try not to sound like a douche when taking everything in.
Jesus that’s hard! We already made a schedule for everything but the sooner we’re done with stuff we find ourself doing more and more just because there is so much new we need to balance into the game. Our first real programming meeting went forward one step with the mechanics […]

Second board game meeting

I had another meeting with my board game group today. The earlier idea about a candy store was dumped and instead we tried to come up with a good mechanic to build our game around.
We got stuck at first since we found it quite difficult to come up with a system before the aesthetics. We tried to think of different puzzle games since we wanted to keep it simpel. We decided that we should prioritise to find a core mechanic […]