What I´ve been up to in my Advanced game design course.

This is my weekly report for our Advanced game design course, were we are creating a board game!

Goal

The goal for this week was to create a playable prototype of our board-game for our advanced game design course, so that it could be play-tested by other groups.

What we did

This week we have been working on our board game for our advanced game design course, focusing on getting the system right. When we first started thinking about how we were going to do this game, we discussed a lot of things, but in the end we wanted to do a race of some sort and create drama between the players.

When we were discussing how the player was going to interact with the game, our thoughts went back to a game system we created a few weeks ago, which is made up of cards that showed colors (different parts of the color spectrum) and had numbers on them.

Our result was cards that had two colors on them (such as green and red) and a number between one and four on them. There was also “rainbow cards” that had all of the colors in the game on them, and either a two or three on them.

The colors on the cards correspond to different tiles that makes up the board of the game, showing the player where he/she can move with that card and the number shows how many tiles the player can move at most with that card.

Conclusion

All in all I am happy with this week’s work, we got a working prototype and we got a lot of feedback from the other groups after our play-testing session.

We learned a lot from the feedback we got, and now we know what to work on.

Feedback

Number one:  Our system is not colorblind friendly, the colors we have chosen to put together on the cards easily melt into each other and it can be hard to tell which are which, what we can do to prevent this is match the colors with different shapes, so that they are more easily recognizable.

Number two: Our board and our cards does not work together good enough allowing players to get stuck easily, as they can only move to the squares correspondent to the colors on their cards, what we can do to prevent this is add different color combinations on the cards.

Number three: Our rules were not well defined enough, making it a bit unclear how to play the game.

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