Monday 11 August 2014

Game Design

Chinese Checkers is a game. A board game. Like so;


Alright, that was vague; Chinese Checkers is a strategy game played with six players. Halma was that this game was originally, until it was made simpler for main stream players. Basically you gotta try and get your balls into the triangle opposite yours, via small hops of each sphere. The balls can hope over each other and so on.

Anyway, I picked Chinese Checkers over Snakes and Ladders mainly because I find Snakes and Ladder so damn boring. For my designs, I'm going to incorporate Lung dragons AKA Chinese dragons for the art work.

A dragon will be 'guarding' their own triangle, with their heads and forepaws being on the slab. They may also have the rest of their bodies going around the rest of the board (maybe interlinking with one another)

Each of the dragons will be based on a particular element, based on the Six Elements. These elements are Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Space and Consciousness which are based on the Chinese Buddhist Elements. (There is also Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, Metal and Consciousness in another scenario. I'll decide with ones to incorporate.)

The center of the board will showcase a giant pearl/egg, which are a typical constant for the Imperial Dragons.
Could so maybe do that for the balls, or even turn them into eyes.

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