Sunday, 18 December 2016

D&AD New Blood Awards 2017 | Hasbro Brief - Ideas & Sketches

List of my ideas of a New board game

  1. Tetris Towers - The concept of this game is a 4 player game. Whoever can build their tower the tallest within an hour wins the game. There will be pros and cons within this game, including the colour of blocks each one will hold a specific amount of points. And rolling a dice or landing on a colour space determines if you either gain or lose points. Beware that some Tetris pieces are difficult to balance and build with.
  2. Building Blocks - Within this game is pretty similar to the concept above, again landing on the right colour space and rolling the dice, will either help your chance of winning or losing. Instead of a Tetris shapes, this game uses blocks such as cubes, cuboids, and any others. However, there will some deformed or difficult shaped cubes to stop the players on their chance to win. 
  3. Body Pictionary - This game concept, requires a some physical skill (similar to Twister). Instead of the player using a pencil and paper to draw out the word. There will be cards deciding which part of the body needs to draw out the word that has been seen. This could be either the players: mouth, toes, armpit and so on. The one who can guess the drawing gains a point, and rotates. 
  4. 3d Pictionary (3d Shapes) - For this game, it involves 5 players. The concept is again using 3d shapes to build what the word or board game says. However, there is only a limited amount of shapes to build the exact word . Therefore, with the use of the game board spaces, dices and cards will help the player either gain 3d shapes either from other players or lose. Each colour of the cards, will set the difficulty of the game. For example: green - easy, yellow - hard, red - difficult, bronze - challenging, silver - insane and gold - pro. Also the shapes will be put in the middle of the game board, the players can only get their colours and no other (unless you have a card that lets you). There will be a time limit to make these shapes.
Feedback from Peers:

  • The tetris game has been done many times, especially how its already a popular well known game. The game play is interesting but you might get copyrighted as the game is already out. 
  • The tetris tower, building blocks and 3d pictionary board game are all very similar in its  concept. Try to make the instructions of the game more different and distinctive. But I do find the 3D pictionary the most interesting to play. 
  • I like the body pictionary game, its all to due with activity and movement than a regular sit down board game. By creating an strap mechanism that it can attach to any part of the body. Plus the game makes the player challenge themselves, they will have to have good balance and coordination when drawing. 
  • Majority preferred the 3D pictionary board game, a lot said it reminds them of Lego and Tetris. But the games could be more altered and adjusted along the way of making the game. 
  • The other majority of peers also liked the body pictionary, as it gets people to move around than sitting down. Again it brings activity to the players, challenge and even a laugh of the image they are trying to draw. But it maybe difficult to make or find a big enough board to draw the word. Plus the pen may run out due to the numerous times it get played.
  • For the 3D pictionary board game it would be good if everything was themed as 3D like the manual, box that contains the game, maybe the board game or even the cards thats show what to make with the 3D pieces. 
Overall, most of my peers preferred between the 3D Pictionary or the Body Pictionary. The 3D Pictionary will be more challenging to make, depending on the rules of the game. And Body Pictionary would be more easier to make as it is mostly the images of the word cards and the board, pen and strap to hold the pen. But to conclude I would prefer to do the 3D Pictionary game as the majority found the concept of the game really intriguing and engaging. So below are some sketches of the 3D Pictionary game, this includes: 3D pieces, counters, board game, card designs and so on. 


 

 

 

 

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