Starry Night

Starry Night

Journey Across the Sky

Made By: Game Dev Girls +1
This board game is an art game that will take you through the wonders and experiences. It is not a competitive game, but it is a game that will get you to socialize among your friends. 
  

What is our game About?

The objective of the game is to create the longest card set.

Rules

The game is played with a group of 3-4 friends.

Each turn you choose to go to any flag place and can pick up from that card pile. When you have 3 cards in your hand or more you can attempt to complete a card set.

A card set is completed by bringing up a past event that has happened with the whole group that relates to/includes all of the card names you have in your hand. At least 3 cards in your hand has to have happened in this “past event”.   This means you can try to include items/card names that didn’t actually happen in an attempt to fool your friends. 

They can call cheater/ liar or some variation of that.  If one person agrees with you but the others all call you a liar, the card set is completed and successful.  However since not everybody believes you, that card cannot go into reserve.  As long as you choose to hold on to this card set, you cannot continue your turn.  You may discard the entire card set (reshuffle) for another attempt at making a bigger card set.

 Only card sets that everybody agrees with can be placed into a reserve.  If everybody calls you a liar reshuffle the cards into their respective piles and try again.  

A reserve is a placeholder for the card set.  Only one card set per person can be recorded on the reserve.  This allows you to guarantee at least a certain amount of cards in a set that will be used to determine the winner.

At the time that another card set is completed and passes the requirement to be able to be put into the reserve, they can swap out the current card set in the reserve for the one they have just completed.

If you obtain a fill in the blank card but do not have a reserve, reshuffle it back into the pile you got it from,  if you answer the fill in the blank card correctly you can add it to the reserve card set otherwise reshuffle it into the pile.

The game can end in two predetermined ways.  Either by obtaining the card set amount said at the start of the game, or by the amount of rounds determined at the start of the game.  One round is when either all players have at least 5 cards, has tried completing a set or a mixture of both.

Developing the idea

Before developing this great game we had to come up with an idea. So, we got together and discussed what exactly what sort of game we have to make. We read the instructions provided on Blackboard and began throwing out ideas. We also did a lot of research on the internet. As a result, we learned what about Van Gogh and his paintings and studied what he intended for them. Eventually Laura came up with a fantastic idea and everyone loved so we all agreed to create the game based on Laura's idea.

 

Making the Game

First of all, the entire board was done by Laura. She did a fantastic job painting it. We don't know what we would do without her amazing skills. From what I can gather, this painting took hours to do.

The following images show the steps Laura took in completing this impressive yet difficult task.

1) top left
2) top right
3) bottom left
4) bottom right

 After long and tiresome hours Laura transform that white board that Zee provided into a masterpiece.

 

 As for the rest of us we worked on the other necessary materials needed for the game. Zee and Keerthana worked on the cards, Clement worked on the rules, Evelyn worked on the PowerPoint, while I worked on the flags. 

My Job

My responsible was to make the flags that were to be placed on the board. I thought it would be really cool if I made them standing up.  The others thought it was a good idea to so that is what I did. I used red paper because it makes a good contrast with the board, since it is blue. I cut the red paper into small triangles and bent them on a toothpick. The base is taken from the leftover part of the board. I cut them into small squares and used a glue gun to glue the black paper on them to give them a more appealing look.

 My Experience

I had a good time getting together with the Girls +1 to create this game. We had fun in between some things but I'm glad we managed to get through and finish it on time. Art is truly an important aspect to board games.