Game Design
Board and Card Games
The goal of this abstract strategy game is to have more points than your opponent when the game ends. Players take turns rolling, moving, or combining dice to maximize their score on a shared board. The game ends when the bottom row is filled with dice or when one player passes their turn.
In this bidding and bluffing card game, three to five players race to be the first to acquire a complete set artifacts. Each round, a wagon card is revealed containing one type of artifact. Players then sequentially announce their intended bid price for the card; however, the price they announce is in terms of dice rolled, with the exact type of dice decided in secret. After all bids are made, players roll their dice, with the highest total value winning the wagon. Losing bidders must pay a bid cost, if any. By playing special action cards before and after the bid, players may change the value of rolls, excluding certain dice from being rolled, or even swap the wagon card.
Game Jam Entries
I created each of the following games within a 48 hour period for the Ludum Dare game jam competition. They are listed in reverse chronological order.
The theme for this game jam was 'stuck in a loop'. I created a match-three puzzle game where the player controls a miner who must push rows of blocks in order to match diamonds and earn points. The puzzle is filled with enemies who, once pushed out of the grid, will chase the miner around on a conveyor belt.
The theme for this game jam was 'you are the monster.' The player controls Groll, a hungry monster who raids supply wagons traveling between cities. A variety of enemies will attempt to stop Groll, who can hide in the forest to escape their sight.
The theme for this game jam was 'single screen.' The player controls a knight trapped in an endless maze. With limited movements, the player must traverse deep into the maze, acquiring new powers so that she will be strong enough to defeat the boss.