Game design: Board Game analyze Battle Star Galactica!

Game analyze: Battle Star Galactica.
 
The Best and the worst sides of the game
The best thing about this game is the build-up. The game has a tense and fun build-up towards the end. The game will always take away recourses but they never really gives them back to you. So the further in the game the closer to total devastation you get. You try everything to hold on to the thin chance of surviving. You also start thinking twice about who […]

Board Game Analysis – A Game of Thrones: The Board Game

Introduction
We’ve been tasked to analyze a board game of our choice. The assignment requires us to look at the core systems (objects, behaviors, relations etc.) that drives the game and the correlation between these systems.
– A Game of Thrones: The Board Game
A Game of Thrones is a board game for 3 – 6 players (preferably 6 players). Each player is assigned a House (A Team if you will), that dictates their starting position and their strategical approach. The game […]

Board Game Analysis – A Game of Thrones: The Board Game

Introduction
We’ve been tasked to analyze a board game of our choice. The assignment requires us to look at the core systems (objects, behaviors, relations etc.) that drives the game and the correlation between these systems.
– A Game of Thrones: The Board Game
A Game of Thrones is a board game for 3 – 6 players (preferably 6 players). Each player is assigned a House (A Team if you will), that dictates their starting position and their strategical approach. The game […]

Analysis of the board game Carcassonne

The main assignment here was to play the game together with a group to later on analyze the mechanics and assemble it all together in this report. My group contained of seven people and we chose to try this game as it was said to be one easiest one to understand and to play, comparing to the other games we looked at.
Carcassonne is a turn based board game where players compete against each other in order to complete lands with […]

Board Game Analysis – Munchkin Pathfinder

Introduction
During five weeks the class is divided into groups. The groups shall then play several board games and analyse the core system and components of the board game to gain a better knowledge on how a system works outside of a video game. The purpose behind this assignment is to see strengths and similarities in board games and video games as well as learning how to develop a stable system.
The first game team seven chose to play was a game […]

Board Game Analysis: Pandemic

Pandemic is a cooperative board game where between two to four players take on the challenge to cure the world from infection before it spreads all across the world.
Win condition: Discover all four cures in time.
Lose states (any of these will on its own end the game)

All cubes of one color are on the game board at the same time
8 outbreaks in total
No more player cards left to draw

Gameplay Basics
In order to win the game, the players have to travel […]

Board Game Analysis 1# – Small World

Introduction: For the class Advanced Game Design we had an assignment to play a board game at least three times and then write an analysis for it.
This is my analysis for the board game Small World. It’s a rather long, but I felt that there were many things that needed to be explained about the game so that it would be easier for someone who hasn’t played the game to understand the analysis. (Since the rules that came with the […]

Board Game Analysis 1# – Small World

Introduction: For the class Advanced Game Design we had an assignment to play a board game at least three times and then write an analysis for it.
This is my analysis for the board game Small World. It’s a rather long, but I felt that there were many things that needed to be explained about the game so that it would be easier for someone who hasn’t played the game to understand the analysis. (Since the rules that came with the […]

Board game analysis; Dust

Introduction
 For this assignment the class was divided into ten groups, each group had to select one board game each to play and later analyze. The number of my group is ten, and the game that we chose is called “Dust”.
 
Game system
Dust is a strategy based war game where two to six players battle against each other for world domination. Domination is reached by controlling the most capitals and power sources, as well as achieving goals such as controlling the most […]

Board Game Analysis #1 – Pandemic

Pandemic from Z-man Games is a co-operative strategy game for two to four players (although due to its strategic nature of being a co-op game, you can be as many as you’d like, inc. being alone) where your goal is to save the world from four different diseases that are spreading quickly around the globe.
The game can be played by anyone from ten and up, but I would recommend someone in their older teens or young adultery due to its […]

Board Game Analysis: Battlestar Galactica

For our Advanced Game Design course we have been assigned to groups and given the task of playing and analysing board games. In total we will analyse three board games, for this week’s assignment we have chosen Battlestar Galactica the Board Game.

   Battlestar Galactica is a card and board game in which 4-6 players team up to save humanity by winning the game. Some of the […]

Board Game Analyze (Carcassonne)

Introduction
A group was assigned the task to play and analyze a game. In order to analyze we had to explain of the core system, components, system and the interaction between them and how the players interpret it. This is an exercise in understanding games and how they work, in order to learn more about what can make a good system and what can be altered. As Adam Mayes says: “Steal what you like and work with it”.
One of the instructions […]