2024
MURPHYS LAW: A BOARD GAME
A board games based on Murphy's Law, 'anything that can go wrong will go wrong'.
My Role
Designer
Duration
8 Weeks
Background
Game Design Course
THE GAME
What the game is about.
Murphy’s Law is a multi-player luck and decision based board game.
The main goal of the game is to finish first while facing a multitude of obstacles of bad luck and misfortune.
PLAYTESTING
Playtesting the initial layout and gameplay
Based on the feedback and observation of the play-testing, the following changes were made:
Number of event cards to be increased
Specific event cards for the mini-games
Removing fortune points
Events on card rewritten to be less confusing
THE BOARD
Presenting the gameboard
Players go by turn by turn and roll the die to move along a linear path.
Along the path, they will face different event spaces. These event spaces will have misfortunes (or fortunes, but mostly misfortune) on them which will affect players progress.
There are also alternate paths with minigames and surprises here and there where players may have to make certain choices.
The objects the players will interact with are the pawns, cards, token, spinner and the board itself.
CARDS
Event cards
Event cards designed to make everything go wrong. Try not to get too frustrated!
SPIN THE WHEEL
Spin the wheel game placed on an alternate path
Green spaces on the alternate paths are the mini-game spaces. When a player lands on a mini-game space, they get to spin the spinner once.
INTENTION
Why did I make a board game designed to frustrate everyone playing?
Because the feeling of watching other players constantly fall behind is an enjoyable experience. Don't be too happy though you could be next.
Thank you for reading.