Assignment 05

Tic-Tac-Toe (Chess)

Overview

This is a chess game (Elimination), there have been slightly modified to its gameplay and impact of its mechanic. In this overview it’s going to cover 3 topics and will be talking about:

·         Rules of modification

·         Modification of analysis

·         Impact of Chance and Skills mechanics

Rules of Modification

Objectives -This Elimination is only two-player strategy board game as the audience can see. The player one (white figures) will have 4 sets of pieces which are pawn, knight, king and queen. The player two (black figures) will only have pawn pieces. In this point will be explaining and why the player one and player two. The player one main objective is to eliminate pawn, get the King and Queen to the other end of the side.  Player two objectives are to eliminate player one pieces.

Penalty & Fairness - Both players will have the advantages and disadvantages and will be explained. It isn’t recommended for player one to beat all the pawns from player two. If the player one can get the king and queen at the other side of the board, player one will be the winner. And same goes for the player two but different. If player two somehow can eliminate the King and the queen the player two will be the winner. Also player two must know that if it eliminates a pawn from player one it will convert as a black pawn

Cards 1-6 and Dice (D6) – these components can only be used for player one (optional for each turn). Dice will be used as D6 and Cards there are 6 of them and will explain how they work. When player one gets a turn he/she will get to roll dice if player one wishes to. Depending number of the dice the player gets, for e.g. if player one gets six from the dice then player one picks the card six. The card six offers revive of single piece whether its pawn, knight, queen or king. The rest of the cards are here the list

·         Card 1 – Miss a turn

·         Card 2 – take 1 prawn or step back.

·         Card 3 – take turn twice.

·         Card 4 - Shout and say “I’m a loser”.

·         Card 5 – Shout and say “I’m the best”.

·         Card 6 - revive a piece.

However if the player one does gets card six and player one has already 12 pieces then that card will be cancelled, because it needs to be fair and playable balanced.

Impact of Chance and Skill Mechanics

There is huge difference with skill and chance when facing an opponent against in Elimination game. All players are naturally born different skills like strategies, probability and solve the patterns.

Chance – in this elimination there are lots of chances that can be used towards the player itself with empathy or against the opponent. Rolling Dice is another chance because the player will not able to predict what the number he/she going to get which means either a good chance or bad chance depending on situation. Well if the player gets card six it gives him to revive one of its pawn or king etc. There can be a lucky streak to defeat like for e.g. player two finds a way to kill multiple of pawn and that’s one the chances the player can take if its right time  do so. Also another chance of winning if the player one lost king can control the queen as the game has not been ended. Player two must always estimate itself chances like converting white pawn to black, this   means you can outnumber the other opponents and build chance to defeat the player one.

Skills – learning the fundamental of chess will help player to enhance better play, ability and self-confidence. By giving choices player one can either use card or move pawn depending choice and its results. Player one can follow the patterns of the where the opponent places his pawn. By naturally learning and developing from opponent pattern gives player one the advantage. Player must always think for strategies before they can initiate the attack which goes under the “Chance” for them to beat the player.  Have to make sure players follow their own rules and use those rules to develop their own skills.  Overall it’s all about listening, paying attention to other player and finally making decisions. 

Reference

The skills were mentioned “Art of Game Design” page 35-40 authored by Jesse Schell.

Modification of Analysis

The modification of chess had to be changed; more features were added like the dice and the cards. The miniature was figured between the players. Each has its own ability and characteristics. The meaning of that lets take an example between player one and two what the audience see difference. Player one has the ability to use card games with in its turn but that. In Chess some miniatures were added and others were unnecessary like Bishop and Rook. These were removed because it does increase the length of game time and with them having there would be a lot conflict. Like for instance some audience will say they found the game too easy and others may have said the game was pretty short. By researching its analysis had to make sure the audience love the game by increasing the length of its gameplay and difficulty adjustment

Visual theme analysis – had to make sure it was just more than a chess game.  The visual there wanted to put it as horror element aspect. Like player two think of pawns as zombies that eliminates the white pawns and coverts them into black pawns. This is how the idea has come up, having a theme of your own is good starts which gives the creator a basic idea and use them of one of game components.

Logic - understanding of playing Chess does have lot of thinking and mathematics. Clearly we can understand how the principle works in the chess game.