DEJ Johnson

  Board Game Reflection “In this reflection I will be very critical of myself and my team looking deeper behind what succeeded or not within the development”.   (Overview of our ideas and game) Me, Ethan and Harrison create a Star Wars board game using other games as references and building upon them. First thing was to look at other Star Wars board games out there, in which there was many, and expand upon them taking some mechanics, character ideas ect which would be useful in our potential game. Then after looking at other Star Wars board games, we also looked at general popular board games like monopoly, although we moved away from this later, and catan. Our first concept of the game featured an open board like in our final game, but we didn’t get far with idea thinking it was too complex to do in the time given. Our second concept of the game featured a board and a few mechanics from monopoly such as, Jail (But done slightly differently with the amount of time in t...

The board game I am choosing to analysis is Catan, the reason I have chosen this game is because personally I really enjoy the gameplay and how the game flows. This probably one of the more interesting board games that I have played, and I can fully have fun playing it mainly if I played with friends or family. Catan is a strategy board game where your objective is to collect 10 victory points by building houses, cities and potentially getting points from development cards. In this game you collect resources based around where you put your houses and cities and you use them resources to build even more houses, cities and roads. Houses are worth 1 point and cities are worth 2 whereas roads aren’t worth any points but can be used to earn points by getting one of the two special points cards which are mini objectives within the game which get you 2 points for each one, one being longest road which is achieved by building 5 roads in a row with no breaks. How you gather resources is when ...

Board game research: Board Game: Catan   About game: This game has a long set-up compared to many others; this long set-up time could deter players from wanting to continue (Mainly for new beginners). The rule book was simple to read making the game more enjoyable as you can play whilst learning the rules. There’s many mechanics to pick up on but all relatively easy to learn such as Building placements, trading, resources and collecting. The game is fun to play with friends. Unlike video games you can’t report anyone. In this game you can team up to target one player. The game has many expansions pack you can explore and try out which allows for diversity in gameplay potentially altering your strategies that you may have.   Board Game: Sonar   About game: The rules are simple, and your turn is easy to navigate. Moves are simple and the mechanics are fun to use such as being able to hide your movements, reveal parts of their location and having a hidden starting place in w...