Betrayal at House on the Hill, board game analysis number two.

Betrayal at House on the Hill is a board game with two phases. In the first phase you and the other players work together to explore the house and find all the things that is hidden inside. In the other phase one of the players will turn into a traitor, he or she might turn into a monster or maybe he or she will create a monster haunting you. Or you might all still be friends and the house turns […]

Game System Analysis – Portobello Market

How the game board can look after a typical four-player session.

Portobello Market is a strategy game where players strive to earn the most points by expanding their markets to the most valuable positions on the board. Portobello Market is played by two to four players. Each game takes from about half an hour to an hour.

Core Mechanics

The game does not have many parts compared to the previously analysed game; Drakborgen and the […]

Portobello Market

This week my group played the game Portobello Market. The goal of the game is to achieve and maintain the highest score when the game ends.
In order to get score you get to place down market stands along the roads that goes between the eleven squares. Next to the road where you place down your markets there are numbers indicated how much score you will receive when the road has been completed.

Just having the road filled with market stands alone […]

Betrayal at House on the Hill, board game analysis number two.

Betrayal at House on the Hill is a board game with two phases. In the first phase you and the other players work together to explore the house and find all the things that is hidden inside. In the other phase one of the players will turn into a traitor, he or she might turn into a monster or maybe he or she will create a monster haunting you. Or you might all still be friends and the house turns […]

Game System Analysis – Portobello Market

How the game board can look after a typical four-player session.

Portobello Market is a strategy game where players strive to earn the most points by expanding their markets to the most valuable positions on the board. Portobello Market is played by two to four players. Each game takes from about half an hour to an hour.

Core Mechanics

The game does not have many parts compared to the previously analysed game; Drakborgen and the […]

Portobello Market

This week my group played the game Portobello Market. The goal of the game is to achieve and maintain the highest score when the game ends.
In order to get score you get to place down market stands along the roads that goes between the eleven squares. Next to the road where you place down your markets there are numbers indicated how much score you will receive when the road has been completed.

Just having the road filled with market stands alone […]

Wall jumping!

Today I continued on Project SlashR. I decided to work on the player and his movement. I deleted the code for the movement I did last time because it felt a little bit wonky. This time I chose to handle all movement of the player with forces. When I move the joystick left and right I apply a force in that direction and when I’m not using the joystick I apply force in the opposite direction to stop the player.
Using only forces like in real life I […]

4-week milestone

I hit the 4-week “milestone” in the studies of game design. What did we do in the four weeks’ time? Below’s a summary.
Swedish communication course:
* compose a popular science article about a topic related to your studies (in Swedish)
* discuss the article in a group of 5, make the suggested changes; provide a brief summary of what you changed (in Swedish)
* compose an essay about a topic related to your studies (in Swedish)
* read an essay about an author’s personal relationship to writing and […]

Board game understanding 2

This week I have played “Super Dungeon Explorer”.
Super Dungeon Explorer is a board game where the players controls their units on a grid in order to kill their opponents. One or two player will play as the evil consul and the rest as heroes. The consuls mission is to spawn and control monsters/creeps/bosses on the battlefield in order to kill all the heroes. The heroes mission is to kill the main boss, this by moving, attacking or taking other […]

Board game understanding 2

This week I have played “Super Dungeon Explorer”.
Super Dungeon Explorer is a board game where the players controls their units on a grid in order to kill their opponents. One or two player will play as the evil consul and the rest as heroes. The consuls mission is to spawn and control monsters/creeps/bosses on the battlefield in order to kill all the heroes. The heroes mission is to kill the main boss, this by moving, attacking or taking other […]

Board game analysis – Smallworld Underground

Game description
Smallworld underground is a game for 2-5 players for the age of eight and up. The objective is to have as many victory coins as possible at the end of a certain number of rounds. The game has 15 different races and 21 different powers that can be combined with those races.
To acquire victory coins you conquer land areas with your races unit tokens, you get one coin for each area in the end of your turn. You then […]

Board Game Analysis: Last Night on Earth: The Zombie Game

Introduction
Last Night on Earth the: The Zombie Game board game, is a survival horror game, set in a typical American small town for up to 2-6 players. The basic rundown of the game is to complete your objective before dawn, depending on your current objective, and fight off the hordes of zombies that just does not stop coming at you (which is also played by one of the players).
Setup
 The Game board is split up in a main piece, that covers […]