Ditch Board Game

Ditch Board Game Demo

This project showcases a family friendly table top board game I developed called “Ditch” It is inspire by an American LARP called Belegarth, where they warm up by playing a simple ruleset called “Ditching” which is basically just a melee with different weapon types involved to stretch their muscles and test their skills. The parameters of this project that I could not step outside were. “Everything for the game, including rules, gameboard, extra pieces etc...must fit on Two sheets of paper so it can be easily printed and played at home, with the exception of two six sided dice.” Coming up with unique and engaging mechanics within those parameters was definitely challenging, but also a lot of fun. At the bottom of this page you will find a copy of the original file if you would like to print it and try it out yourself.

Game Tracker Results

A major focus of this project was tracking data in order to make sound decisions about balance and mechanics. Here you can see data on player choices, how die results played out after adding modifiers, which pieces win confrontations the most, average game time and more. This paired with player feedback after playtesting was very enlightening for how to update the game mechanics and balance it each week as we worked towards our final standard.

Resources

Download Ditch

Download "Ditch"

Download the instructions and game board so you can play Ditch at home!

Ditch Playtesting Journal

Download the Playtesting Journal

Learn about the playtesting and evolutionary process of the game Ditch.