Mood Board

Board Game Preproduction Notes

Game Names

• Asteroid Panic!
• Planet Killer
• The Big One
• Space Exodus
• Exodus Earth
• Earth Crosser
• Impact
• T-Minus
• Collision Course
• Blast Off
• Station X-1
• Colony
• Obliteration
• Contingency Plan

Supplies/Companies/Colors

• Medical/Life Support - Red
• Fuel/Uranium/Reactor/Atomic - Yellow
• Hydroponics - Green "Sinagro"
• Parts/Tools/Computer - Blue
• Water/desalination - Blue "Aqueous"
• Population/Candidates
• Terraforming Kit
• Food/Rations/Freeze Dried

Tactical Cards

• Steal - Take one of another player’s supply card
• Sabotage - Skip a player’s turn
• Scorched Earth - Destroy an unclaimed supply card, creating a shortage.
• Safeguard - Protects player from any other player’s attack
• Doomsday - Asteroid moves much closer, decreasing the the time left to play or even just ending the game.
• Contamination Radiation or disease, roll dice
• Alliance of convenience - Trade 1 supply card with someone, (if they agree)
• Chaos - Pick or randomly lose a resource
• Hoard/Stockpile - Take a second supply at a pile

Rules/Layout

• Only one escape rocket in center of board, four companies/players start around it, supply pile scattered on board.
• Player keeps their supply cards in a line in front of them face up. Tactical cards face down.
• four companies/players are different science/space disciplines who start out with 1 card of their respective trade supply. Each company is color coded to one of four colors
• pick up candidates/people as you move
• old oregon trail/Sweet Valley High
• Asteroid can move closer as you move or as certain events unfold or cards are drawn or both. Goes around the edge of the board  Asteroid tracker could be cut from the game in lieu of a more simple rule that says first one done wins no matter how long it takes. The tracker would only really exist to cause a no win game where time runs out.
• A player can’t run out of their base supply unless they are all gone from the pile

Possible Board Game Names

Asteroid Panic!

Planet Killer

The Big One

Space Exodus

Earth Crosser

Impact

T-Minus

Collision Course

Blast Off

Station X-1

Colony
Obliteration

Board Game Mood Board

This is a small mood board of one of the art directions I could go with the game. It would be a sort of B-movie or retro 50's futurism graphics and motif.

Board Game Concept

My more detailed concept for my board game, (and by extension, my Senior Thesis,) is a four player race-like game. It will have a space travel theme. The premise is that there is a huge asteroid on a collision course with earth. The planet is doomed but there is hope... for a few. There is a self-sustaining Martian colony but it's only big enough to hold approximately two-hundred people at the moment. Two to four players will represent different space exploration companies vying to reach and gain control of the colony first. 

Each player will likely roll dice to move around spaces on a board. They ultimately want to collect all of the necessary supplies such as rocket fuel, food, hydroponics equipment, tools and the like and then get on their ship and leave before the asteroid hits the planet.

On the board there are specific locations that you have to travel to to acquire supplies. Spaces you land on along the way may have you draw cards from a deck or something. These cards might give you the ability to steal from and sabotage the other players or destroy resources they need. 

There could be an overall asteroid tracker that moves a little closer to earth after every round of turns. It might be possible that the constant fighting of the players could cause a no-win game in that no one is able to get their things together before the big rock hits. This could be an optional component for more challenge.

The point is not to create an orderly and benevolent environment of people coming together to help one another in a time of need but more of a mean spirited crisis of panic, selfishness and the worst qualities in the human race.  

Senior Thesis Concept

My Senior Thesis Project will detail designing and constructing a functioning board game. This may include anything applicable such as game board, cards, box, instructions, etc.

I hope to have my game take inspiration and elements from some of the following existing board games. 

Finalized Certificate