04 - Board Game Project by Chris Lomax

04 - Board Game Project

28/11/2020 - We have been given our final project for the year which is 3 weeks long. (Deadline is Friday 11th December 2020 at 09:00am). For this task we were put into small groups to create a board game related to a digital game and had to choose one of the following: Ghost of Tsushima, Stardew Valley, Mortal Kombat 11, Call of Duty, Amongus or Jak and Daxter. Our group decided to go ahead and create a card game based on Mortal Kombat 11.

When going through the planning phase, we were inspired by the game Hearthstone and one of the member's on our team plays Yu-Gi-Oh too which helped out a lot. Before sketching anything out, we had a long discussion talking about the base mechanics of the game, to get a feel for it and to make sure everyone was on the same page and knew what type of game we were aiming to create. 

So we decided to research of 30+ characters from the base game of Mortal Kombat 11. As there were 4 people in our group, we researched 8 characters each along with their attacks, combos & special moves. Once I completed my 8 characters, I decided to write up the "Idea of the Game" so we have it in writing and it was a lot easier to explain if anyone asked us about our idea. I also added at the end what our intentions were for Week 2 and what we need to focus on. (As seen below)

Some of the things listed above may not make it into the finished game, as I was trying to be creative as possible by adding as many unique features in there, so we can play around with them and eliminate anything that doesn't fit. As group leader, I added everyone's work (including myself) to a PowerPoint and presented it to the whole class going through what our game is about and what are goals are.

Here is a small and very brief sketch of what the game may look like. I drafted up this example, so when I was presenting this to the class, people could have a clearer picture of our vision on the game.

As mentioned above, next week we will focus on balancing the game with attack points and hits that are relevant to the player's health points and picking 12 characters out of the 30+ to put into the game. We will also add a character from a film / other game to add into out board game, as Mortal Kombat 11 have done that in their official game too. 

(They added: "The Terminator", "The Joker", "John Rambo" & "Robocop").