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The Thousand Year Game Design Challenge
- DanielStraight 15y agoIf you go to the update posts (there's one for each month), he lists the submissions he's received so far.
- xnerdr 15y agoDo you have a link to even one of these? I tried looking for these and couldn't find one...
- DanielStraight 15y agohttp://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/thousand-year-game-design-challenge.html http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/thousand-year-ga... I found a tag too: http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/search/label/1000%20Year%20Game%20Design http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/search/label/1000%20Year...
- DanielSolis 15y agoThanks for linking! Here are the entry round-ups so far for the past four months. January: http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/thousand-year-game-design-challenge.html http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/thousand-year-ga... February: http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/thousand-year-game-design-challenge.html http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/thousand-year-ga... March: No Entries April: http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/thousand-year-game-design-challenge.html http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/thousand-year-ga...
- DanielStraight 15y agoI'm glad you found us here. I should've posted a comment on your blog. Anyway, I wonder if you might be able to give us some insight as a game designer as to what goes into creating a game. Do you start with a theme? Mechanics? A particular goal (like the one you've set out here to create a thousand year game)?
- DanielSolis 15y agoIt was hard to ignore the 800% spike in traffic. ;) Before I even get an idea for a theme or a mechanic (or a constraint), I look for inspiration outside of my head. I watch movies, read comics, and play games in other media. Oh! I actually documented this process on my blog for a recent game. I got hooked on this web game: http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/jorinapeka.html http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/jorinapeka.html Then tried adapting it to tabletop with this prototype: http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/in-lab-jorinapeka-board-game-adaptation.html http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/in-lab-jorinapek... After several iterations, it became a very different game in its own right: http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/utara.html http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/utara.html Which had many enthusiastic players at a recent convention: http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/playing-utara-dice-game-at-dreamation.html http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/playing-utara-di... It was so well-received, I had dice professionally produced and documented the costs of the process: http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/etched-utara-dice-costs-of-custom-dice.html http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/etched-utara-dic... Anyhoo, hope all that helps if you decide to go into board game design. :)
- biot 15y agoI assume it would be cheating to create a game that takes a thousand years to play? :)
- DanielSolis 15y agoYou can, but I can't guarantee we'll be able to finish playing it. ;)
- nrkn 15y agoI initially thought that it would be a game that took a thousand years to make :)
- microtherion 15y agoWolfenstein covers the Thousand Year Reich, that's gotta count for something...