Develop your game with a theme. Complex wargames have conflicts, player politics, and game piece placement strategy.
You might find inspiration for the theme of your game in your favorite novel, comic book, or TV series. Mythology and legends are often used when developing themes. Common elements include vampires, witches, wizards, dragons, angels, demons, gnomes, and more. Use mechanics to develop your game, alternatively. Mechanics are the ways players interact with the game and each other. Experiment to find what works best for you.
Common mechanics you might be interested in using include turns, dice rolling, movement, card drawing, tile laying, auctioning, and more. Determine the age range of your players. The age range of your players will influence the complexity of your game board and its rules.
For adults, you could create something more competitive, exciting, and complex. Set player, time, and size limits for your game. Some games are limited by the size of the board, the number of player tokens, or the number of cards. Game board size and the number of cards will also influence how long it takes for players to complete your game.
When setting these limits, think about: The number of players your game will support. Will the game be fun with just two players? How about with the max number? The average length of your game. Additionally, the first playthrough generally takes longest. Players will need time to learn the rules. The size of your game. Large game boards and decks will usually add complexity and lengthen the game time, but this will also make your game less portable. Decide how players will win.
In these games, the first player to reach the final square wins. Point-gain games require players to accumulate awards, like victory points or special cards. At the end of the game, the player with the most awards wins. Cooperative games involve players working together toward a common goal, like repairing a gnomish submarine or stopping a virus outbreak.
Deck-building games rely on cards to move gameplay along. Write out the basic rules. These will undoubtedly change as you continue to develop your game, but a basic set of rules will allow you to begin testing quickly. When writing your rules, keep the following in mind: The starting player. Many games choose the first player by having players roll dice or draw cards. The highest roll or card goes first.
What can players do during their turn? To balance turn time, most games only allow one or two player actions per turn. Player interaction. How will players influence each other?
The non-player phase. Outcome resolution. Outcomes might be decided with a simple roll of the dice. Special events might require specific cards or rolls like doubles. Part 2. Use prototypes to evaluate your game. Before you begin work on the finished product, create a rough prototype test game so that you can play around with it. A prototype is a vital part of the game creation process, as it gets ideas out of your head and into the real world where you can evaluate them with other players.
Hold off on adding artistic details until you begin assembling the final product. Simple, pencil-drawn game boards and cards will allow you to erase and make adjustments as necessary.
Sketch a rough draft of your board design. This will give you a sense of whether your board is too large or small. Depending on the theme and mechanics of your game, your board may or may not include the following elements: A path. Simple games may have a single path that leads to a finish line, more complex path games may have splits or loops in the path. A playing field. Games that have a playing field do not have a set path. Instead, players move as they see fit through areas that are usually divided into squares or hexes.
Landing positions. These can be depicted with shapes or images. Landing positions can have special effects, like allowing you to advance a square or draw a card. Assemble prototype game pieces. Buttons, checkers, poker chips, chess pieces, and knickknacks work well as prototype game pieces. Avoid using game pieces that are too large for your prototype, since these can make it difficult to read information written on the board. Use game cards to add variation.
Randomly shuffled game cards will affect players in unexpected ways. Decks have about 15 to 20 card types like trap cards and tool cards. These types are limited to about 10 cards to a deck to create a balanced mix. They are numbered, but you will find yourself moving through them back and forth as you create your own game. Choose black and white or color. A simple roll the dice game for young children.
Download here. A more complex game board for older children. You make game cards to place in the middle of the board. Adapt this idea by drawing or gluing a picture onto some card stock. Cut out and mount on a bulldog clip. Me and My Inkings has instructions for making games pieces out of clay. Print them straight on the board or create game cards. Index cards cut in half are just the right size for game cards.
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