I thought of a theme for a game, told it to my wife and she told me it sounded like a kid's game. I got thinking about it afterwards (since i didn't intend it to be a children's game) and could see where she was right, but still don't really know. So I'm sharing it here, and wondering what everyone thinks.
The basics of the game involves each player having a set number of cars, which they must start in one part of the board (which is one big city) and move those cars to a certain destination on a board (I guess in a small way it resembles Ticket to Ride by Alan Moon.)
Players get action points to use on moving their car by making the car's speeds faster or slower. The car cannot turn unless the speed is at 1. Players also can use their points on changing the stoplights from red to green or green to red. If a player runs a red light they get a ticket, which takes away one of their action points.
That's all I got so far, but I wanted some feedback to know if this sounds like a game all ages would enjoy or just kids.
Thanks in advance to all that post.
-Steve
Thanks for the quick answer. This is what I was thinking as well.
This is a good suggestion. I haven't put a ruleset together yet, but what i've thought of so far, is tickets would be a permanent thing. The one point is lost permanently, at least until you can pay for the ticket (I don't know how that will work either.) Also, their will be a yellow light too. When players switch a light from green to red, it will go to yellow first. That will give players a turn to slow down if they can. Plus, I'll probably design it so that the lights will change, and then the cars will move, making it impossible to change a light from green to red to green without the cars moving first.
I have the GDW slot in a few weeks, and I may use this game for that slot. Plus I have so many other games I'm working on that this game may not be able to get a full ruleset until then.
Thanks again for your help.