Assignment 10

For this assignment, Julien and I played battleship, a game where you guess a space on the board in order to try to pick a space where the second player placed one of their ship pieces. The opposite player's board is hidden from view. The first player to sink all of the other players ships wins the game. As for an original theme, I thought that a farm theme where you're trying to sabotage your neighboring farmer's crops could work. I also had the idea of instead of battleships, the pieces were eggs, and the player would try to not hit the other players baskets, but that ended up changing the game too much and being to complicated.

First, we played a regular game of battleship, and agreed that the game felt like it dragged on a bit. So then the three changes we made to battleship in order to test the prototype were 1. make the game board smaller, 8 x 8 instead of 10 x 10; 2. to play only diagonally, and 3. to play with only one size ship instead of 4 different sizes. The only change that really made the game better was to make the board smaller. Playing diagonally, the game went too quick, as there were less ways to place the ships, and playing with the same size ships there was a lack of information provided about how well the player was doing.