Daily Archives: September 12, 2014
Board Game Analysis: Kill Doctor Lucky
For the course in Advanced Game Design, all of the students have been tasked with playing and analysing the systems of board games. In a group of six people, I’ve been analysing the game “Kill Doctor Lucky”. Kill Doctor Lucky is an inversion of the classic game “Clue” where the players are out to kill a man instead of looking for clues to solve who did it. You, and all of the other players, want to kill Doctor Lucky, but […]
Board Game Analysis: Kill Doctor Lucky
For the course in Advanced Game Design, all of the students have been tasked with playing and analysing the systems of board games. In a group of six people, I’ve been analysing the game “Kill Doctor Lucky”. Kill Doctor Lucky is an inversion of the classic game “Clue” where the players are out to kill a man instead of looking for clues to solve who did it. You, and all of the other players, want to kill Doctor Lucky, but […]
Board Game Analysis: Kill Doctor Lucky
For the course in Advanced Game Design, all of the students have been tasked with playing and analysing the systems of board games. In a group of six people, I’ve been analysing the game “Kill Doctor Lucky”. Kill Doctor Lucky is an inversion of the classic game “Clue” where the players are out to kill a man instead of looking for clues to solve who did it. You, and all of the other players, want to kill Doctor Lucky, but […]
Board Game Analysis: Kill Doctor Lucky
For the course in Advanced Game Design, all of the students have been tasked with playing and analysing the systems of board games. In a group of six people, I’ve been analysing the game “Kill Doctor Lucky”. Kill Doctor Lucky is an inversion of the classic game “Clue” where the players are out to kill a man instead of looking for clues to solve who did it. You, and all of the other players, want to kill Doctor Lucky, but […]
A board game analysis
This blog post is going to be about an assignment in the course Advanced Game design.
The class is split up in groups for when we do assignments and this is about when we play and analyze a board game. The assignment is to play a board game 3 times and analyze it. We do this to better understand how the game system works and how it is built and what components it is built with. This helps us understand the […]
A board game analysis
This blog post is going to be about an assignment in the course Advanced Game design.
The class is split up in groups for when we do assignments and this is about when we play and analyze a board game. The assignment is to play a board game 3 times and analyze it. We do this to better understand how the game system works and how it is built and what components it is built with. This helps us understand the […]
Master AI
Me and my group( Anders, Christian, David, Isak, Kim, Ludvig) has made a game based out of sissyfight. This was of course our assignment.
Firstly we added three mechanics. 1 which is that we should place all cards upside down, 2 is that we added a reveal card and 3 is that we should have a judge to calculate all damage.
Then the next day we got a memo to change our already changed version so that it would be educational. That […]
Master AI
Me and my group( Anders, Christian, David, Isak, Kim, Ludvig) has made a game based out of sissyfight. This was of course our assignment.
Firstly we added three mechanics. 1 which is that we should place all cards upside down, 2 is that we added a reveal card and 3 is that we should have a judge to calculate all damage.
Then the next day we got a memo to change our already changed version so that it would be educational. That […]
Board Game Analysis: Kill Dr. Lucky
Back again, after a minor hiatus! This time, an assignment was given to pick a board game, play it in a group, and analyze it, determining the core game system (including objects, properties, behaviours and relationships), the good and bad sides of the game, and the most interesting system.
The game we picked was Kill Doctor Lucky. It is a turn-based game for between 3 and 7 players ages 10 and above (according to the box), which works sort […]
Board Game Analysis: Kill Dr. Lucky
Back again, after a minor hiatus! This time, an assignment was given to pick a board game, play it in a group, and analyze it, determining the core game system (including objects, properties, behaviours and relationships), the good and bad sides of the game, and the most interesting system.
The game we picked was Kill Doctor Lucky. It is a turn-based game for between 3 and 7 players ages 10 and above (according to the box), which works sort […]
Board Game Analysis 1 – Drakborgen Legenden
Introduction
We were tasked with playing and analyzing a board game of our choosing as a team and then individually write an analysis of our experience with that game. The main goal was to get an understanding of the core systems and how they affect they game.
To gain as much understanding as possible of the game and its different play styles, we decided to play the game on three separate occasions. The game we chose was Drakborgen Legenden.
Drakborgen Legenden
Drakborgen Legenden, released […]
Board Game Analysis 1 – Drakborgen Legenden
Introduction
We were tasked with playing and analyzing a board game of our choosing as a team and then individually write an analysis of our experience with that game. The main goal was to get an understanding of the core systems and how they affect they game.
To gain as much understanding as possible of the game and its different play styles, we decided to play the game on three separate occasions. The game we chose was Drakborgen Legenden.
Drakborgen Legenden
Drakborgen Legenden, released […]
Board game analysis – Dust
Introduction
During the course Advanced game design we were split into groups to play and analyse a board game. Our group chose the strategy game Dust.
Game description
Dust is a board strategy game, for two to six players, similar to RISK where your objective is to hold key locations on the game board which give victory points and the first to a set amount of victory points win. To do this the players have different cards and units to their disposal. The […]
Board game analysis – Dust
Introduction
During the course Advanced game design we were split into groups to play and analyse a board game. Our group chose the strategy game Dust.
Game description
Dust is a board strategy game, for two to six players, similar to RISK where your objective is to hold key locations on the game board which give victory points and the first to a set amount of victory points win. To do this the players have different cards and units to their disposal. The […]
Week 2, MDA-framework.
So week number two has passed. This week we were thought of the MDA framework. MDA stands for Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics.
Mechanics is in short terms how a game function and what the played can do within the game.
Dynamics is how the game is played by the player.
Aesthetics is how the player will or should feel when playing the game.
Also during this week we made a sissyfight revamp, which we call Master Ai.
It is pretty much a quiz game, which Adam(our teacher) did […]
Week 2, MDA-framework.
So week number two has passed. This week we were thought of the MDA framework. MDA stands for Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics.
Mechanics is in short terms how a game function and what the played can do within the game.
Dynamics is how the game is played by the player.
Aesthetics is how the player will or should feel when playing the game.
Also during this week we made a sissyfight revamp, which we call Master Ai.
It is pretty much a quiz game, which Adam(our teacher) did […]
Board Game Analysis – Citadels + The Dark City Expansion
Introduction
We were tasked to analyze a Board Game for a course; Advanced Game Design. We had earlier been divided in to groups of around 6 people each. We got to choose what game we wanted to play ourselves, wither from a big selection of games that the school owned or we could choose to play a game we owned ourselves. We selected a game called Citadels together with an expansion for the game called The Dark City.
Citadels + The Dark […]
Board Game Analysis – Citadels + The Dark City Expansion
Introduction
We were tasked to analyze a Board Game for a course; Advanced Game Design. We had earlier been divided in to groups of around 6 people each. We got to choose what game we wanted to play ourselves, wither from a big selection of games that the school owned or we could choose to play a game we owned ourselves. We selected a game called Citadels together with an expansion for the game called The Dark City.
Citadels + The Dark […]
Analysing a Boardgame #1
The second year of game design has started, and with it a new task to analyze board games.
The task consists of first playing the game and then deciding the objectively worst and best sides of the game. After that we are to decide the core game system, meaning the system that the entire game revolves around, and then defining the objects, functions and the properties, behavior and relationships that is this game.
And then we choose the subjectively most interesting system […]
Analysing a Boardgame #1
The second year of game design has started, and with it a new task to analyze board games.
The task consists of first playing the game and then deciding the objectively worst and best sides of the game. After that we are to decide the core game system, meaning the system that the entire game revolves around, and then defining the objects, functions and the properties, behavior and relationships that is this game.
And then we choose the subjectively most interesting system […]
An Introduction
Hello! I am Marcus, a GAME student over att Uppsala University currently studying Game Design and Game Analysis with a secondary course in Graphics. This blog will showcase the work I have done each week and I will post updates hopefully every friday.
Last week’s assignment
Last week we had the assignment to analyze the good old game Space Invaders by looking at the objects of the game, the properties and behavior of those objects as well as how they relate to […]
An Introduction
Hello! I am Marcus, a GAME student over att Uppsala University currently studying Game Design and Game Analysis with a secondary course in Graphics. This blog will showcase the work I have done each week and I will post updates hopefully every friday.
Last week’s assignment
Last week we had the assignment to analyze the good old game Space Invaders by looking at the objects of the game, the properties and behavior of those objects as well as how they relate to […]
Kill Doctor Lucky
Hello reader(s). I’m back from a long summer holiday! First blog post this term is going to be an analysis of Kill Doctor Lucky, a board game.
The best parts of Kill Doctor Lucky:
My Favorite part of Kill Doctor Lucky was the line of sight aspect to the game, which I thought was pretty unique for a board game. I had never earlier heard of a board game with line of sight in it. Line of sight is not only one […]
Kill Doctor Lucky
Hello reader(s). I’m back from a long summer holiday! First blog post this term is going to be an analysis of Kill Doctor Lucky, a board game.
The best parts of Kill Doctor Lucky:
My Favorite part of Kill Doctor Lucky was the line of sight aspect to the game, which I thought was pretty unique for a board game. I had never earlier heard of a board game with line of sight in it. Line of sight is not only one […]