#Suburbia game blank b hex driver#

This can be pretty awesome if you have a great component in mind. Then you would choose a theme or mechanic that will work with those components. When designing component first you would often choose a component or components that you really want in your game. But there are times when a designer may make a game from the components that they have available. This is a tough one to do because most designers donвЂ™t design around a вЂњfinal productвЂќ type component. This is something that IвЂ™ve been wanting to do but have not found a scoring condition that I like enough to build a game around. Then they will fill in the design with the mechanics and slap on a theme if necessary. Designers choose how they want the scoring to work. This is essentially a specific variant of Mechanic First design, but with the end-game in mind.

#Suburbia game blank b hex driver#

Some abstract games are designed with the scoring condition as the driver for the design. This is a lesser used way of designing games. This way of designing assures the designer that their game will utilize a gameplay mechanic that they like. Once youвЂ™ve figured out your main mechanic and made it playable you can try to figure out what type of theme might fit with your mechanic. Or you could pick a mechanic that has been done before and add a twist. This could be a new component, a new way of using a component, a new combination of mechanics, or other things that havenвЂ™t been done before. The designer might come up with a really interesting way to play a game. This is probably the other most popular way of designing a game. I like to picture myself immersed in the theme wondering what ways I can bring the theme together and make it feel like a grand experience. Once youвЂ™ve chosen the theme you can then begin to consider the mechanics that might fit with the theme. Going Theme First allows you to choose whatever you want the game to be about. You could design about scuttlefish escaping sea urchins. You could choose to design about paratroopers rescuing chickens stranded on Antarctica. One of the most popular ways of starting out a game design is to choose a theme that you think is interesting. I am going to try each of these four approaches over the next month and see if I find inspiration. Today I wanted to present four approaches that you can use as a starting point. So IвЂ™ve been thinking about mixing it up to try some different approaches to designing game. The only design that is making progress is a co-design with a friend of mine. IвЂ™ve been messing around with half a dozen designs lately and I seem to be stuck on each and every one of them.