Week 10

          As you may already be aware our game in development is titled Medium Rare. The player takes control of a light hearted alien who vows to beam all the cows on Earth to safety in order to save them from a fate that would inevitably include BBQ sauce. On the side we have begun building a board game that reflects this general theme. Our concept utilises a square shaped board similar to monopoly with a UFO home base on opposite sides of the board. The game is intended to be team based (Good vs Evil aliens) and can at this point feature head to head or 2v2. Additional players can participate if additional cards are added to the board. Located around the board are two primary types of spots. These are barns and chance cards. Landing on a barn will allow you to draw a cow from a deck in the middle of the board. Cows are the main source of points and must be collected at your teams UFO. Before you can claim the points and put the cow on your UFO however you must either tame it (Good) or slay it (Evil). To do so any player on your team may sacrifice a turn and roll a dice for that cow. If successful the cow is loyal and may be banked for points by going to your UFO but if you fail the turn is wasted. There are many cows in the deck some harder to make loyal than others but the more difficult the cow the bigger the points so players will have to choose wisely when to roll for a cows loyalty. Chance cards allow players to mix up the game by stealing or losing cows. Some cards may let you beam a cow to your UFO while all the way on the other side of the board or make a cow loyal without risking a roll of the dice. To navigate the unidirectional board and obtain cow cards and chance cards the players will roll two six sided dice. It is important to note that each character has three health if you fail a loyalty roll for a cow, are landed directly on by another player, or are affected by certain cards you will lose a health. Lose all health and you will have to spend three turns in the hospital! The general idea for the game is ironed out and we are hard at work ironing out the kinks and balancing the game perfectly. Art assets are already underway and the board mechanics finalized. We hope to commence play testing by the end of this week so that we have ample time to polish the game.

PROJECT OZ

Christian Perera (100343813)

Edward Kwok (100368569)

Joseph Tuffner (100393724)

Seonghyun Lee (100425275)

Shing Hei Yee (100419025)

Yang Zhou (100382767)