The best board games involve both luck and strategy. A hard time limit is preferable
planet, a rocket crashes. The surviving astronauts—a medic, miner, soldier, scavenger, scientist and engineer—had been on a mission to collect rare minerals and other resources. Now they have to co-operate to rebuild their craft and dig up as many precious rocks as they can shift, all before their dwindling oxygen supplies expire. They also have to cope with landslides, tunnel collapses and attacks from helicopter-like birds, wolf creatures and herds of space-mammoths.
Life is not easy for characters on Planet Ozerdale. But at least they have plenty of opportunity for heroics and energetic outdoor activity, and are able to spend time with a reasonably large social group. For your correspondent’s 14-year-old son, stuck in lockdown with his brother and their parents, the outer-space scenario was alluring. He dreamed up the intergalactic mission a few days after his school closed.
Designing your own board game lets you combine the most enjoyable elements of other people’s. The best involve both luck and strategy. Intricate and complex battles between armies, as in “Diplomacy”, “Risk” or “Axis and Allies”, tend to be open-ended and last many hours. A hard time limit, represented by the disappearing oxygen, is preferable.
Is it more rewarding to create a new game, calibrate sometimes complicated rules, make hexagonal tiles for the board, set up a website to share the idea and anticipate how others will be entertained—or to get down to the absorbing business of rolling the dice, defeating monsters and dodging asteroids? In your correspondent’s household, the most intense excitement seems to come in the early stages of crafting a new thing.
For the inventor the pleasure is from being a storyteller of sorts, one who introduces a cast of characters, bestows each with attributes and then dreams up novel scenarios for them. For those who lead others in role-playing games, such as “Dungeons and Dragons”, it may be a small step to put a game on a board. For their audience—especially parents, who are prone to being baffled by many intricate rules—having cardboard tokens in hand helps to keep things simple.
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