Board Game Inventors

Board Game Inventors

An exciting opportunity to invent, design and play your own new board game. We have a link to a company that makes board games and we can actually invent and professionally publish our very own unique games! This is an exciting and rare opportunity, so why not take advantage of it?

No prior experience is needed, and we will follow a plan to learn how to create great board games.

- First we will simply play board games and invent our own additional rules to enhance the gameplay

- Then we will learn to "reverse engineer" the game design and analyse why some rule changes improve a game, and why others do not.

- Finally we will be developing our own ideas and creating our own game concepts.

There will be no limits to what you can create, just what our own creativity can conceive.

CASL skills to be developed will include:

- Teamwork...teamwork making the dreamwork

- Creativity...using the creative design process

- Innovation...dream! create! inspire!

- Judgment...information is no substitute for good judgment

- Prioritsing...don't prioritise your schedule, schedule your priorities

- Resilience...fall down 7 times, stand up eight

Join us at Board Game Inventors!

CAS Strand: Creativity

If innovation is the application of concepts to new situations, then creating board games involves joining game concepts from different games in new ways to form an even better game.

Lasallian Principles: Respect for all Persons

Good ideas can come from anyone. Given the CCA has students from G7 to G11, it is important to develop the culture that all students respect the creative ideas of everyone, regardless of age and experience.

The creative process involves many fails while making progress, so team members need to develop ways to add to ideas that can be developed further, but act with tact when they reject ideas.