The theme for the first week games were “Every finger in the room is pointing at you” and we were asked to make a game based on this theme. We had 20 hours/person for this assignment.
The game we made in my group was a board game inspired by the classic mix & match games, where you have different parts of characters and you try to match them together to create a complete character.
My thoughts about this theme was that either the people are pointing at you because you want them to or because you are different/bullied. So for our game we decided to go for both of these. We made a game about beauty surgery where the players try to get an operation for each part of their body first, while stopping the other players from finishing their operations.
The players start with 7 cards each and deal these cards between each other. The players try to collect cards of the same type and if they have three of the same at the turns end they can try to make an operation for that body part.
The player with 3 of the same bodycard then roll a dice to see how succesful the operation was. (1-2 = 1 point, 3-4 = 2 points, 5-6 = 3 points) If the player has collected a “Perfect operation card”, this will add 1 point to the result, unless the player haven’t already reched the maximum result (3 points). Other players, that have collected a “failed operation card” may use this on another player and this will instead reduce the result by 1 point. If the player roll 1 point and another player used this, the operation truly is failed and the player recives no bodypart.
The finished version of the body, once a player have all of the body parts including: large lips, big breasts, shiny blond hair, six pack, looong legs and strong arms. Finishing the game with an absurd looking creature.)
Once any of the players have operated all their body parts the game ends and the player with the most succesful body winns.
It was a interesting concept to work with, but if we had had more time, I would have added more different bodyparts. So that the points weren’t only a number, but visible on the different parts. Som if a player had a 1 point leg operation or 3 point leg operation, it would be visible on the body chart.