Will try selling it on Shopee if all goes well. I have absolutely no idea how it will work but it should be fun to try.
IDEA #1 I think it will have 4 scenes or ‘rooms’. There will be 4 characters for 4 players to control. It will contain cards with fragments of dialogue. And cards with outcomes. There will be items of magic. Each card can be played yin or yang / good or evil, influencing the outcome of the game so it is re-playable and more fun.
Once the room is filled with magic, on to the next room. That’s all I got so far. The player who exits the room first wins. Simple.
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IDEA #2 So the game took a turn. It will have runes on the borders of each room. The runes may be combined for good or evil. There are cards with meanings of the runes, in English for starts. Players need to weave a spell using the room runes. They need to decipher the meaning of the runes in either good or evil and create the best spell they can manage and write it on the room center.
When the runes are deciphered they will fit a template and are then read out, sealing victory in that room. No one player can have all the answers, the fun is in trading cards with other players and giving them a good or bad card. The meanings of each room’s spell complete other room’s spells. The difficulty level increases from in to out of each room so the game can be played fast or overnight even. It is like code breaking.
There might be a story written in each language about creation of the realm. A rosetta stone.
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IDEA #3 Was thinking that the story or background to the realms is important and should feature on the cards, the culture and beliefs of the realm dwellers and their god would help decipher the rune strips and unlock further secrets.
Think that players should be selfish but co-operate when forced to -to trade knowledge gained. So maybe there will be wars or animosity between the realms that players have to overcome while code-breaking. Mini quests that promote sharing.
Was thinking the board would be an A3 color print. And the cards would be printed on another A3 and cut, slipped into plastic slips. The board can be folded into quarters as there will be a gutter for that. Pieces of the Rosetta stone at the edges of the paper. Maybe a glossy inkjet print would be better.
The I Ching warns against being laggardly today. I have to design the languages and write the story of the realms, and the incantations, and all the culture cards.
I have written all of the material I need to prepare the game items and am taking a small break to coach my church mates against persecution by witchy LiLian and her blackmail machine.
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