Game Board Ideas

We were given a brief of making a board game, and, as a class, we made rules and a name together. This meant we could spend more time on making the actual layout of the board individually.

We named it 'Reel of Life', and it's media related. The rules are all about having jobs/internships in the media industry. This made me realise that the target audience was probably 15-24, and had some interest in media, or media related topics.

Based on that, I decided to have images of media things - like a camera - on my board. 

In Illustrator, I decided on the colour scheme, design and those combined. To the left is a very rough draft of what I want my game to look like. You can see where the positive and negative cards would go (like community chest and chance cards), at the bottom and top of the board. 

You can also see the moving spaces, and a random shape in the middle. That shape will somehow be the spinner, representing a reel somehow. You may also spot the awfully done media objects poking out of the board. 

I decided on a grey theme as that seemed professional and more mature, but the splashes of colour show that it is a game, and attracts mature young persons. 

I also attempted to design the token cards in Illustrator, too. I want to improve them by circling the text around the inner circle, so it looks professional and polished. 

That's all for this week - hopefully my ideas will be more advanced by next Wednesday.