Today was the first day that we started to work on our board games. We each presented our board game proposal to the class and then ranked the order of each game that we were interested in working on. While we were playing Settlers of Catan, Professor Parks split us up into our new board game groups.
The game my team and I are working on is called RU Screwed. It is a board game based on Rutgers University and the challenges Rutgers students face as they graduate. As a group we did talk about some of the mechanics of the game. The board will consist of 4 squares. Each square will represent a different campus. Then there will a circle in the middle. The circle will represent the Stadium. The goal of this game will be to go through each campus and finally graduate with 120 credits. But along the way there are cards you draw which either benefit you or hurt you. You will either gain credits or lose credits. Each campus will also represent the year of school you are in. An example would be, Livingston Campus will represent first-year/freshman year because that is typically where freshmen live. A problem that we are trying to overcome is the rolling the dice and movement problem. As of now, the game works only if you roll the dice. Some solutions we thought of were trying to include a spinner instead? We aren't exactly sure yet but hopefully by next week we will have it figured out.
- Ruchi Shah
