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 […]

Board Game Analysis #2 – Carcassonne

Following up the last board game analysis, here is the award-winning Carcassonne that was made by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede.
Carcassonne is a socially competitive game where you create your own playing field. Each turn you will get a piece that you can expand the map with. By using your followers the goal is to take control of territory that will grant you points towards the end game standings.
The game can be played with two to five players and is recommended for players […]

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 […]

Portobello market

London 1921… Market traders gather at the world-famous Portobello Market to set up their markets stalls on the most valuable places. Build your stalls in the most profitable districts and steal the best streets in front of the eyes of your opponent. Bobbyn (police) determines where stalls can be built, but with a little effort, you can move him anywhere.
Parts of the Portobello Market that was good
When you have four players to play with, the game has really good intense […]

Analyzing: Betrayal at House on the Hill

Introduction:
So, time again for another blog post. The second one for the Game Design: Analysis course. This week me and my group have been playing Betrayal at House on the Hill.

The Game:
This game is all about exploring a house with your friends. You can play as one of 3-6 players which must walk through a haunted house to find different items and rooms to defeat a traitor in their midst. In the beginning of the game, none of the […]

System analysis of Arkham Horror

Week 3, and our second game to analyse, Arkham Horror. I was sceptic that I would like the game, as the only time I have heard “Arkham” have been in the Batman series, which I am not too fond of. I was gladly surprised to see they got no connection what-so-ever, and I actually enjoyed this game quite a lot (though the games could drag on for a very long time).
The game is a co-op turn-based PvE. I will go […]

Portobello market

London 1921… Market traders gather at the world-famous Portobello Market to set up their markets stalls on the most valuable places. Build your stalls in the most profitable districts and steal the best streets in front of the eyes of your opponent. Bobbyn (police) determines where stalls can be built, but with a little effort, you can move him anywhere.
Parts of the Portobello Market that was good
When you have four players to play with, the game has really good intense […]

Last Night on Earth the board game

Last Night on Earth the board game
Analysis Introduction
Me and my group chose to play and analyze the game Last Night on Earth, which is a zombie themed board game for two to six players. When playing this game there should be at least four human champions on the field against of the players who must play as the Zombie team and controlling several zombies. There are event cards that is drawn at the beginning of the game, deciding the goal […]

System analysis of Arkham Horror

Week 3, and our second game to analyse, Arkham Horror. I was sceptic that I would like the game, as the only time I have heard “Arkham” have been in the Batman series, which I am not too fond of. I was gladly surprised to see they got no connection what-so-ever, and I actually enjoyed this game quite a lot (though the games could drag on for a very long time).
The game is a co-op turn-based PvE. I will go […]

Pandemic – Board Game Analysis 2

This week me and my group played another board game and here is the analysis of that game.
The game we chose was Pandemic. It’s played by 2-4 players. The goal of the game is to fight diseases and find cures for them. When all cures are found you win the game. This is done together with the other players where you help each other fighting outbreaks around the world. You play on earth and […]

Last Night on Earth the board game

Last Night on Earth the board game
Analysis Introduction
Me and my group chose to play and analyze the game Last Night on Earth, which is a zombie themed board game for two to six players. When playing this game there should be at least four human champions on the field against of the players who must play as the Zombie team and controlling several zombies. There are event cards that is drawn at the beginning of the game, deciding the goal […]

Stratego Analysis

This week we got to choose a new game to write an analysis about. We picked the game Stratego; a game that I would describe as “Chess meets Memory meets Roshambo”.
Stratego is a game made for two players and takes place on a field of 10*10 squares. There are two lakes close to the middle and no units can walk on them.
This is the game space:

Each player is given 40 game pieces and gets to place them however he […]