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Carnival Zombie
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Designing Board Games Case Study: Carnival Zombie
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How to Design Interactive Boardgames
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Why we must start to play (and make) Boardgames?
• Social Social Social and Social
• Improve strategic thinking, creative, bla bla bla (skip this one, I’m not doing scientific research..) its all about having fun after all
• In the end, lets play (and start to make) boardgame!
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Case Study: Carnival Zombie
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Game Overview: Carnival Zombie
• Boardgamegeek©2014
• Carnival Zombie is a Co-Op Zombie Survival with interesting mechanic to play, plot twist and dark story.
Background Story
• Lets start with some bedtime story.. “Once upon a time..
• Goals of player: – Survive
– Escape the city with Zeppelin/cross the bridge/sail to sea with ship/kill the leviathan
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How To Play
• Goals of the Game
– Survive!
• Point of Interest in Gameplay Mechanic
– Area Control Battle with Zombie swarm
– Day-Night System + Exploration
– Nightmare Event
– Realm of Abyss
– Before-Ending Plot Twist
Area Control & Battle
• During the Night – Player will stay in the center
and wait the zombies to come.
– Player have only 1 action
– Player can pay 1 Stress Level (Health) to get bonus action
– Each phase during the night will spawn more zombie
Character
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Day-Night System + Exploration
• During the Night
– Player can only fight the zombies (infected)
• During the Day
– Player can explore city to look for equipment/survivor
– Use ability to help comrade (heal/explore)
– Move to the next area
Equipment and Nightmare Card
Realm of Abyss
• Every time player kill the zombies (infected)
• Player must carefully “drop” the infected into the abyss
Realm of Abyss
• “Drop” not “Put”
• If player fails to drop it and the zombies fall outside of Abyss, it’ll return back to battlefield and the player who failed to put it lose 1 life.
• Done? Not Yet! See this one
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Before Ending Plot Twist
• Call for Helps Scenario
– Radio Signal • Zeppelin
• Ship
• Cross the Bridge Scenario
• Eliminate the Leviathan
– Crafting Holy Bomb
Pros-Cons
• Pros – Worth to Buy & Play!
– Interesting Mechanic and Storyline
– Have Easy to Very Hard difficulties
– Beautiful Arts
– All in one Board
– No Dice Factor
• Cons – Awkward translations (from
Italy to Eng)
– Super Expensive
– Really hard game to win
Conclusion: Lets make Boardgames!
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Documentation
Thank You (open funding to buy this game.. :D)
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