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In Season

Physical Board Game

Tools: Paper, Word Documents, InDesign, Props

Contributions: Game and Level Design, 2D Art

Designed and prototyped a board game around the topic of scattered natural resources
Worked in a team of four, and took the role of lead game and level designer.
Created a rulebook using InDesign
Created team charter as a team

Timeline: 4 months

Descriptions:
"In Season" is a physical tabletop board game that discusses scattered natural resources. The forest faces a natural resources crisis, and animals are now harder to survive. Therefore, they must snatch other animals' resources to survive. Each player is represented by a different animal and is given a set of resource cards. Each action and turn will cost players a certain amount of resources. The player who can survive till the end of the game wins.

Take-Aways:

Teamwork and Communication skills
Learned to create a rapid paper prototype and playtesting
Learned how to use Trello board to divide and assign tasks
Created rulebook using InDesign
Learned how production works, from scratch to near-shippable product

Screenshots

Process

1. Brainstorm Topics and Team Charter

The team brainstormed game topics and created a team charter.

2. Initial Prototypes

We then created rough prototypes and compared them with each other. My prototype, In season, was selected to work on.

3. In group playtest

Then we did some in-group playtests to enhance our game.

4. Open playtests

We then moved on to open playtests with other peers to gain more feedback.

5. Documentation

Documented our playtest results and areas that required improvement.

6. Trello Board

After we finalized our game mechanics and rules, we listed and divided tasks using a Trello board.

7. Final Game

We created a near-shippable rulebook, game board and cards.

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