Sunday, April 26, 2009

Turning Killonw into a Board Game

Well for starters, the transition from video game to board game would see the loss of the F in FPS - really hard to make a flat overhead board something to look as if its playing out in front of you through your eyes. However the mechanics could still stay - shoot things they die, get shot too much, you die. The board game would most likely have to be just one level as compared to the multiple levels in the video game, althought they could have a few levels ...of story mode presented on one board- it would be difficult and the game would be long. Killzone is also primarily a one person game, and that is fine... as long as there is something to do/fight against. One person has not no problem having fun as long as there is a computer on the other end to control his enemies and the gameplay. In a board game, there is no computer, no nothing to control what happens and the enemies movements, so it would be very, very boring. Most likely, a board game version would have to be a battle grounds type thing, where 2 players each pick a side and go at it on cardboard. Each person would have have a handful of figurines/men to control, and die would control their movement on the board and/or their shooting ability. Health would be based on a pre established mechanic, something like 3 hits and that guy is dead. The player with any remaining soldiers once the other's are dead is the winner. Card pickups could be used toe determine what weapons a player has and how much ammo..
That's pretty much it.

1 comment:

Kim Gregson said...

some interesting ideas - we don't want to make a boring game tho - ha ha

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