04 - Board Game Project (Mid-Progress) by Chris Lomax

 04 - Board Game Project

08/12/2020 - As mentioned last week, me and my team picked out 12 characters to be in the official game and added the character "Master Chief" from the well known halo series. Here are the list of characters that made it into the game: Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Rain, Noob Saibot, Baraka, Skarlet, D'vorah, Geras, Johnny Cage, Raiden, Kitana & Master Chief. We also created an online excel spreadsheet so we could access and edit it when we please. 

We decided to make the majority of the cards global cards instead of character specific. Finally, we want to use much larger / chunky numbers as we think it seems relevant to the game as if you hit someone with a 3 or a 4, it doesn't seem as effective. But if you hit someone with a damage of 350, it's more in your face and seems like a big hit which I think is really good for a fighting game. However, we have made all the numbers relevant with each other as each person has 1000 health points.

Here is a screenshot of my word doc, an example of a warrior card, back of the card, a premade card & our spreadsheet.

Again after I presented our progress to the class, the main question I was asked by the teachers we "how are we going to play this game?". Unfortunately I thought it would have been a "physical" card game. However, I was wrong as it does state in the brief it needs to be a "digital" board game. I was referred to looking into either "table top simulator" or "tabletopia". I decided to have a look online at tabletopia as it is free and is also on the web browser.

My next plan of action for the final week of the project is to get the game running on tabletopia with the final game card designs and have the rules written out formally and easy to understand for the readers / players.