Week 1: Brainstorm/research
During the first week, my group was introduced to the Project, and to the scheduled 4-week plan. We have decided that it would be best if everyone in our group would research as much as possible on board games, and try to come up with idea for Friday. We also played lots of different board games. Like Carcassonne, a tile based game where players build their own kingdom and gather resources using a simple tile placing system. As I have already played this game before I was able to explain the basic rules to the group, and after a lengthy game everyone seemed to enjoy it. Later during the week I also played magic the gathering, and wings of war both of which were very enjoyable.
After my group researched and played some games, we have decided that tile-based games seem the most interesting to play, and that we will eventually create a tile based game ourselves. Out decision was based on the tile based systems, randomness of each play, the freedom the tiles gave to the player, and that each game felt very different from the previous one.
To make things easier, I wanted to try and convert a video game game play mechanic into a board game, which in the end was not that easy at all. My idea was to take an Indie style video game, for example, Dungeons and dragons. And use the idea of exploration and dungeon crawling as the basis for our board game. To make things interesting it would be a side/platformer, where the map would be seen from the side, rather than from the top as most tile based games did. Also to make thing a bit different from other board games, the players would have to cooperate with each other while exploring the dungeon rather than fight against each other. When I proposed my idea to the group, everyone seemed pleased with it, and it was put on the list of our possible games. Meanwhile David and Terry had their own game ideas. It was the end of the first week, and we decided that we would vote for the game we are going to make next week.
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