My Board Game Concept

Basic Overview of Board Game

Our team has decided to make a board game called Build It Up, Where the players have to navigate a four corner square board to collect pieces to build an object and the first of up to four players to build their object wins.  

My Idea

I decided to set my game in a dark post apocalyptic world recovering from a nuclear war the reason for which has long been forgotten. The game will be based around a ruined city with dangerous radioactive swamps and vicious raiders.  

In this game each player is a wasteland explorer scavenging for parts to build a vehicle to escape the dangerous regions in which they currently live. 

Aim of the Game

The players have to navigate the board avoiding pitfalls to collect pieces for their vehicle by landing on the piece collection squares. Each of the four players has their own build area where they must take the pieces they collect one at a time until the vehicle is complete.

Dangers and Pitfalls 

The players’ progress will be hindered as they travel around the board some spaces will be marked with symbols representing such as radioactive pools that make a player miss a go or raider squares which steal any piece the player is currently holding. All pieces that have been deposited into the build area are safe.

Board Layout

The board will represent a ruined city and will be split into four areas.

1.      Underground tube station area.

2.      Main city area- ruined urban setting.

3.      Scrap yard area- full of scrap and rubble with more opportunity for parts to collect.

4.      City outskirts- few remaining buildings. A hilly, bare wasteland.  

Each player will start in a different area and those areas will contain their build areas.  Each player will be expected to gain at least one piece from each area.  

Concept for the Board layout




Concept drawing of a character for my board game

 



Concept drawing of the vehicle for my board game