CGDD: Board Game Design Idea
Board Game Assignment
WHERE is the idea from? – [In this blog, your team should provide a game design idea after discussions. This idea should be derived from life experience]
The idea of this game is from our group members frequently indulging in boba drinks (with one who used to work at a boba shop), which made us think about the adjustability of boba orders allowing everyone to essentially build their own “perfect” cup of boba. To make things more interesting, we wanted to set the scene of our game inside a boba shop, with the players being workers and completing a series of challenges to construct a customer’s order.
WHAT does the game look like? – [descripting as much as you can]
Boba Battle to the Death
The concept of the game is that the players are boba shop workers and have to be the first person to complete their boba order. This game can have up to 4 players. The game will consist of cards and a traditional board. Before the game starts, each player chooses 4 order cards, drawn randomly, which represents the boba recipe they have to create. The recipe includes:
- Milk tea flavor (oolong, black, matcha, jasmine)
- Toppings (boba, jelly, read bean, pudding)
- Ice level (0, 1, 2, 3)
- Sugar Level (0, 1, 2, 3)
Then they will have to draw a milk tea flavor and topping. The ice and sugar level will be represented with cubes that each player can collect or discard during the gameplay. During the game, players have to keep their order a secret and try to craft their recipe without the opponents’ discovering what their order is. Players can steal from each other through challenges such as:
- Rock paper scissors
- Roll a dice and see who gets the larger number
- Guess what flavor/topping/ice level/sugar level the other person has (but keep it between you two)
- If you guess that player’s entire order correctly, they get eliminated
The board will be a circle so players can loop around. The tiles on the board will include components like challenge or swap/take/return an item from/to the inventory. Players will move along the board by rolling a dice and they are represented by a player piece.
Board game components list:
- Order cards
- Player pieces
- Challenge cards
- Board
- Ice cubes
- Sugar cubes
- Recipe card
WHAT are the materials you need to craft it?
- Paper, dice, player characters