Hi all,
Designed a game for my wife for Christmas, but have found my kids enjoy playing it more then adults. Here is the game I designed.
Name: GemBlock
Players: 2
Ages: 8+
Pieces:
2x pawns
1x dice
10x blocks
14x gems
Time of Play: 15-20mins
Board Layout: The board is 12x12 grid setup, with a maze type system.
How to play: Players both are allocated 5 blocks and 7 gems, players must place their allocated gems anywhere on the board, but not near their starting position.
Players each roll the dice to determine who goes first by rolling the highest.
Once play begins the first player rolls and moves their pawn to collect a gem if possible. Second player does the same, roll and move. From this point players are able to place their blocks to stop their opponent from moving forward, thus they must find another way around. ONE MAJOR RULE HERE: PLAYERS CAN'T TOTALLY BLOCK THEIR OPPONENT FROM MOVING, THEY MUST ALLOW AT LEAST ONE EXIT PATH.
When a player collects a gem their turn is over and are not allowed to move anymore until their next roll.
When players pawns are faced with each other, they enter a mini battle, by rolling the dice in a best of 3 highest score wins. The winning player isp00 able to choose a gem as reward. The losing player misses a turn.
If a player is blocked by their opponents block, they have the ability to obtain that block. They must indicate they want to obtain that block, then they must roll the dice 3 times attempting to score 14+ points, if they are successful they take the block, if unsuccessful they must place one of their gems back on the board.
To win the game all gems must be removed and the player with the highest amount of gems wins.
Any suggestions that could assist in balancing the game out would be a wonderful help.
Thanks guys,
I certainly have something to work with here. Hopefully I can create a great game for all ages.