Creating A Board Game
Climbing The Ladder
JANUARY - MARCH 2025
For The Love of Games
A decade ago, it started with The Settlers of Catan. Over the years I’ve become increasingly more invested in the world of board games, now playing almost once a week, and every month at a local library group. As a graphic designer, and as someone who loves to create things, on December 28. 2024 I started creating my own board game.
Playtesting
Every Monday my friend Stephen and I would meet and playtest the newest iteration of the game I had been working on.
Challenges
I started with a them based on Chase Ranch in NM. I made cards with different apples on them and colorful images and numbers, but they didn’t mean anything. Their were no mechanics. Stephen and I spent the next few weeks trying to force mechanics into this theme, and it didn’t work. There was no goal. No point at which the game ended (Several versions had players just playing cards randomly until they decided to stop). They were terrible, no seriously, they were bad.
After a few weeks of that, we jumped ship entirely.
