How to Make a Board Game: Part Three
Cards for your Board Game –
This is the third in our series of how to make a board game. While you can use some of these concepts to make your own board game out of cardboard or paper, making a game with Flibbix is easier and gives you a lot more opportunity to change and “tweak” things later. This makes it easier to experiment and make a board game that works well and is really fun to play.
In our first post, we covered making or building a game board with Flibbix tiles. In our second post, we talked about making rules for your board game. Here, we look at using cards in your board game.
Flibbix comes with 40 cards that you can use with your board game. You can use all, or just some, of the cards to change how your game plays. There are different types of cards that are used for (you guessed it) different things:
- Social Cards: These are cards that get people interacting, getting to know each other, and having fun. Some examples: Human Spinner, Three of a Kind, Color Favorites, etc. You may want to play a game using only these cards, or—if you don’t like using them—pull them out of the deck before you play. The same goes for any other category of cards…
- Movement Cards: These move you or other players around the game board. Some examples: Zap!, Move Ahead, Move Back, Switch with Opponent, etc.
- Turn Modification Cards: These change your roll, move, or turn. Examples: Fast Lane (doubles your roll), Slow Lane (halves your roll), Roll Reversal™ (reverses your roll), etc.
- Board Changers: These let you change the game board around during the game. Some examples: Tile Swap, Tile Flip, Swap & Flip Start and Finish, etc.
- Protection Cards: Avoid getting moved, swapped, or having your turn modified (by a Slow Lane, for example.). You can save these cards, and use them whenever you want to protect against a card or tile action. They come in handy when you’re almost at Finish and you land on a Switch with Opponent tile.
- Other Action Cards: Can be just about anything: Break the Rules (change a rule on the rule sheet), Get Picky (draw cards), Extra Turn, Lose a Turn, etc.
Even more cool are Flibbix Custom Cards™. These can be anything you want. They could be an action like one of those above, or anything you can imagine. Just put your “action” for the card on your rule sheet before beginning your game:
Here are some that people came up with in games we played recently:
- Do ten pushups
- Sing a song in [insert cartoon character's name]’s voice
- Swap cards with the player across from you
- Etc.
If you want to create cards for your own custom board game, you might want to try experimenting with Flibbix and Custom Cards first. It gives you a chance to try out your creations. We love being creative and making fun stuff. We think Flibbix is the easiest and best way for most people to make their own games, but you can also try making board game cards out of paper or blank business card templates from an office supply store, too.
The important thing is having fun, playing with others, and getting a chance to be creative.
In our next post, we’ll look at game play.
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