As a group we decided our game needs to:
- Be simple and easy to play, but not mindless and boring.
- Have a lot of interaction - fast paced
- build pressure and anticipation as you play (random timer)
These were the initial ideas we came up with for our boardgame while researching other boardgames:
Initial Idea
- Game like Pass the Bomb where you have a timer to pass around and have to sing/hum the song or theme that is on your card.
- "Pass the Bomb" no board, just cards and timer to hold on to
- "Intros Round" from Never Mind The Buzzcocks a music based quiz show, where contestants have to sing the start of a song for their team mate to guess.
- Party Games - Play in Groups and involves Trivia
- Film theme tunes and songs (such as James Bond)
- Game theme tunes (such as Super Mario theme)
- Themes from television programmes/cartoons
- Music in General, look at different genres
- Cards - Showing song titles of themes
- Timer - Some sort of timer that will go off at random
- Song Master
- Theme Quest
Time Line:
- Mon 27th Sept - Given Our Brief for this Board game project, researched other board games, started thinking about our game.
- Tues 28th - Our group met up and decided who was going to research what, split into pairs to focus on one question - Myself and Ryan looked at "What is Gameplay"
- Wed 29th - Everyone carried on with their research
- Thurs 30th - Met up again, showed each others research, started talking more about our game. Decided to add a board to our game
- Fri 1st Oct - Finalised the basic rules of our Game and how to play
- Mon 4th - Made basic idea of what the board would look like, added dice to move around the board. Spoke about our boardgame idea with Nigel and talked about the use of dice, decided it would be ok for our game as its purely fun, not necessery to win to have fun.
- Tues 5th - Decided what equipment we needed and bought card to make a mock up board
- Wed 6th - I did some designs for the cards and board
- Thurs 7th - Made simple prototype of board and cards, decided what songs/lyrics we would use for each genre
- Friday 8th - Finished off the cards and play tested. We found some problems and needed to change some things and add new rules. People were singing the song title which made it too easy to guess correctly - new rule - "Not allowed to sing the song title". Players would hit a wall if they didnt know the song, so decided to add lyrics to the cards as a clue so they have something to say/sing. Decided to make players complete at least one lap of the board before they could move into the middle circle, and they would also have to land on a main circle and answer correctly before they can move to the middle circle. found a problem with the die rules, had to Hum the song in reverse, so we changed the reverse rule to singing the song so that every letter starts with a "B". Overall we had lots of fun playing the game
Week 3
- Mon 11th - Gave presentation on our game - asked people to play test it, everyone enjoyed it which was a good sign.
- Tues 12th - Officially resolved any problems we had with the game and decided who would design/make what for the final board. I was given the role of designing the cards
- Wed 13th - Made a few ideas of what the cards would look like.
- Thurs 14th - Met up and showed each others designs, Phil had designed what the box would look like and reece incorporated this into the board he had created by adding the box pattern to the board background.
Week 4
- Mon18th - We printed off the board
- Tues 19th - I sorted out the layout and sizes of the cards so that they would fit on the board, and typed up the songs and lyrics on the modern cards
- Thurs 21st - Got all the the cards finished and typed up ready to print off. Jak will print off the cards and the rule book
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