Board Game Analysis – Citadels

This is my analysis of the board game Citadels.
In this game the player hires different characters each round to help them build a city and collect gold. The characters have different ability’s and they represent different colors and they have a number from one to nine. Each round, every player secretly chooses a character that they think will benefit them. When someone builds their eight district the game ends and the player with the highest score by then wins. […]

Board Game Analysis: Battlestar Galactica

Introduction
As an assignment for our advanced game design course we students were divided into groups of 6-7 people to play a board game of our choosing and analyze it as group and later write an individual analysis of that game. My group chose Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game for our analysis.

Battlestar Galactica is a semi-cooperate game for up to 3-6 players. The game is set in an ongoing space battle were you as a human player has the goal […]

Game of Thrones: The Board Game Analysis

Game of Thrones: The Boardgame is a strategic, resource-centric experience similar to Risk, but with several elements added to it. You take control over one of the major factions in the setting as you attempt to claim as much power as you dare – through settling or force. While doing this you must also compete with other players in terms of politics, military and subterfuge. This analysis will focus on the game’s strengths and shortcomings, the general overlay and […]

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, […]

Drakborgen

This week the task to analyse a Board game of our choice was given. The task was to analyze the core system and the components to get a better understanding of game systems.
The group I’m in ended up with picking the game Drakborgen also known as DungeonQuest. The version we played was not the original from 1985, but the remake from 2002. This game is all about finding the most valuable loot while still making it out alive. This is […]

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 […]

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 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 […]