Game Bash

Inventing a Game!

As part of a game workshop, we took two random games and tried to make a new game out of them. We used the word game "Hoopla!" and the Star Wars version of Life. 

 The objective of the game is to clear the enemy's defenses and reach and destroy their core. This is done through the playing of the word cards and the rolling of the colored dice. Luckily the colors on the die matched up with the colors of the defense pieces.

At the start of your turn, you would place your attacking card face down and declare that you were attacking, and roll the die to see what would happen next. If it were blue, purple, or yellow, you would be attacking those color defenses. If it were red, the method of determining who won would change, and the die would be rolled again until a blue, purple, or yellow is rolled. Normally, the person with the larger number of syllables would win, but when the red die is rolled, it becomes the lower number of syllables.

 Additionally, at the start of the game, a card is drawn, looked at by the player, and put to the side. At any time that the player has lost a round, they can choose to swap their losing card for the card put off to the side.
The first person to reach and destroy the player's core (the red piece) wins the game!

It was a tough exercise to incorporate the word cards and figure out which pieces were useful and important and which were too convoluted to try.