Board Game Understanding

In this course we have been divided into groups and given the task to play three different board games. The assignment we have received is to analyze three games by finding its core system. By playing the game at least 3 times, we should get a better understanding how the game system works for each of these games. This week we have been playing Battlestar Galactica (The Board Game).

Battlestar Galactica is a board game where you cooperate with other […]

Board Game Analysis: A Game of Thrones

For the first board game assignment of our game design course, my group decided to play A Game of Thrones: The Board Game, Second Edition.
Game of Thrones is a 3 to 6-player game, the objective of which is to own the most castles on a world map. There are a total of 20 castles laid out over the map, and the first player to own 7, or to own the highest amount of castles by the end of the game’s […]

Small World – Analysis

Last week we were assigned to play and analyze a board game of our choice in the course, Advanced game design. My group chose Small world and here is my personal analysis of the game.

The game

Small world is a turn based strategy game where your goal is to collect coins by conquering and holding areas of a map. You get coins depending on a number of different things like how many provinces you hold and you […]

Board game analysis: KILL DOCTOR LUCKY™

Introduction
KILL DOCTOR LUCKY™ is a family board game for three to seven players. The goal is to murder a non-player character (NPC) by the name of Doctor Lucky. However you can only murder someone once so the player that gets to Doctor Lucky first is the winner. You cannot just walk up to the doctor and stab him though. There are severe restrictions in place that prevent you from even attempting a murder, and even then the other players have […]

Board Game Analysis #1 – Pandemic

 
Game description
Pandemic is a 2 to 4 player board game where the players work together to save the world from disease. The games goal is to find cures for all 4 diseases. To find a cure you must collect 5 player cards of the same colour (the colour is representing which disease it is) and discard them while standing on a research station.
Each player is assigned a role that has different characteristics that buffs one kind of action. There […]

Board Game Analysis #1 – Pandemic

 
Game description
Pandemic is a 2 to 4 player board game where the players work together to save the world from disease. The games goal is to find cures for all 4 diseases. To find a cure you must collect 5 player cards of the same colour (the colour is representing which disease it is) and discard them while standing on a research station.
Each player is assigned a role that has different characteristics that buffs one kind of action. There […]

Board Game Analysis 1

So, long time since last. This time I am not going to write about programming or any digital game. We got a group assignment where we were to pick a board game, play it, and then write an analysis about it.
So, we picked Carcassonne with River expansion. It is a turn based strategy game for two to five players. The players take turn drawing tiles, placing them and followers in order to score as much points as possible by the games […]

Board game analysis: Citadel

Hello Peons.
This past two weeks we’ve been playing board games. Going back to analyzing systems and to understand the systems.
Me and my group have been playing Citadels, a game where you try to raise the most magnificent citadel with beautiful districts.
Citadels
Board game
In Citadels, the players take rounds to build and erect a city, in order to do this player’s takes aid from different characters to lend their different abilities. The goal in citadels is to erect the most magnificent city, […]

Board Game Analysis – Game 1: Pandemic

Introduction

The first assignment in the course was to play three different board games and make an analysis of them. Get an understanding of their components, core systems, properties and player behaviours. The goal with the assignment was to get a basic idea of game analysis overall. But most importantly, to get an understanding of game systems in order to prevent us in the future from designing the same game systems multiple times by mistake.

Game Description

Pandemic takes place in a near […]

Board Game Analysis #1 – Small World

Introduction to the game
Small World is a turn-based board game, for 2-5 players, where players battle for control over a world which is too small for everybody to live peacefully.
The game box includes:
Several different boards that are used depending on how many players there are.

4 Maps of Small World.
6 Player summary cheat sheets- These explain the different abilities granted by the different races and special powers.
14 Races.
20 special powers.
Tokens for every race.
Plenty of victory coins.
Several special pieces, like Fortresses, Mountains or […]

A Game of Thrones: The Board Game

Foreword
What you are about to read is an analysis of a board game. The analysis will be structured in such a way that it will be easy to follow. It will begin with an introduction and then carry on with a basic look at what the game is followed with a listing of mechanics and explanations; then a list of the good and the bad followed by target audience and conclusions. Each subject matter that is touched on and explained […]

Drakborgen Legenden

Drakborgen Legenden
I and my group had to choose a board game that we had to play and then analyze. My group
choose Drakborgen Legenden. Drakborgen Legenden is sort of a remake of Drakborgen that is a Swedish board game in a fantasy environment that was published by Alga 1985. The Expansion Drakborgen II came 1987. The game is created by Dan Glimne and Jakob Bonds and was inspired by role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons.

Here is a short explanation […]