I had a lot of time in the car this past week, and it gave me an opportunity to invent a new board game. I did something similar a few years ago, and eventually that road-trip spark turned into a full-fledged game. This time around, the game will be much simpler… it’s mostly cards, with some wooden cubes to track a few things.
It has a science-fiction theme, and part of the twist is developing technologies and science-fictiony things but giving them away to the other players. I call it Forward Humanity, a reference to moving forward in a positive and cooperative way. It feels like our world could use a bit of that.
Today I spent some time putting onto paper the ideas that had been fermenting in my head. I grabbed a bunch of wooden cubes from my game development kit, and gave it a go.
The end result? Frankly, not too bad. There were definitely some refinements to make, but at first blush it wasn’t horrible.
Tomorrow I’m meeting up with some friends for pizza (of course) and will be introducing them to the game. It’ll be interesting to see what they think…