Week 1: The Board Game

Part of our assignment is the redesign of either a Snakes and Ladders or Chinese Checkers board.  I have had a few different concept ideas so far.

Snakes and Ladders could become a medieval themed siege with catapults and boiling oil taking the place of snakes and ladders and the goal to reach the castle.

Another idea I thought could be really nice visually is a space theme using comets and blackholes.  In this game you would ride the comets up and be sucked down squares through the blackholes (wormholes?).

For variations of Chinese Checkers it could be interesting to give the board a theme.  The pieces could become frogs that need to reach their own pond or other variations.

I created a basic draft exploring my comets and blackholes concept.  The comets and blackholes were rendered from Maya using the FumeFx plugin. 

Figure 1: Snake and Ladders Redesign Concept