J.G.S.S

​​media type="custom" key="5693883"  We are working on creating our very own board game to hopefully win a competition. Our aim is to make a fun board game for the family, ages 8 and above. Our theme is a seasonal game split into quarters for each season of the year. The rest is top secret material, for the military to know and you to find out.

We have already begun making our final product and it is so far going very well.

Meaning of a board game: A game of strategy played on a board, usually involving moving pieces and dice.

See the graph below to find out what is the most popular board game.



Most popular board games:


 * [|Monopoly]
 * [|Scrabble]
 * [|Candy Land]
 * [|Cranium Cadoo]

What we like about them:
 * Monopoly - **you buy places and hotels**
 * Scrabble - **it's fun thinking of words to use**
 * Candy Land - **cool theme, bright & colourful, easy for younger kids**
 * Cranium Cadoo - **fun creating and drawing things, using your random skills**





[|What makes a board game fun?:]


 * repeated playability
 * lots of cards with different sayings
 * a concept people are interested in
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">colourful pictures that help entice people to keep playing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">straight forward rules
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">luck and strategy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">make other players suffer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">able to be won several different ways
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2-4 players

Our fat questions and their answers:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What do people look for in a board game? A **game that requires skill and luck that has bright colours and appealing images. Also a game that can be one several different games and be played more then once without getting boring - which would mean different cards/different ways to complete the game.**
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How will we be able to make our board game appealing? **With colourful images that help enitce people to keep playing; interesting playing characters; a unique playing board; excellent replayability; obvious but not too easy rules.**
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How can we make our board game stand out from others? **Unique rules and ways to play;** **a unique name that sounds fun and interesting; a persuasive message on the packaging.**
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How can we make it that old and young people like our game? **By not having too corny images; by making the rules not too easy; by making it eight years and up**

=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Stuff we need to make our final product: =
 * cardboard
 * vivid pens - various colours
 * lamination stuff
 * pieces of card - approx 80 same size
 * think inky black pen to outline
 * 4x scissors
 * stencil

=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">How we made our board: = = = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">First of all we found a perfect piece of cardboard to use and on a piece of paper we did the draft. After we were satisfied with our draft, we moved on to the cardboard to do the final product. We used colours that suited the seasons - for example, blue for winter, orange for summer and so on. A quarter of the board is summer, a quarter winter, a quarter autumn and a quarter spring. Steph drew pictures in each quarter and we all coloured them in appropriate colours. We used a gluestick to get the circles circular, instead of doing them freehand or with a compass because it was easier. After we did all that, we moved on to do the cards. We needed forty cards, so it took a long time putting all the writing on it. After we finally finished doing the cards, we laminated them so they wouldn't get ruined or wet. Then we had to do the coins. We cut out circles from pieces of card and coloured them in yellow and put dollar signs on them. It took quite awhile to finish our board game as we then had to hunt for playing pieces and a dice. Overall it was hard work researching the top board games and what sort of board games people prefered, but eventually we chose that our board game was for people eight years and up. We decided on this because younger kids may not have been able to read our cards and it could have been slightly difficult for them to understand the rules. Our board game is catergorised as a family game. We thought it was fun doing this project and we hope we win the competition - but if we don't, it was still fun !