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Tools for Game Making
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Making Snakes & Ladders Type Board Games 1. Decide on an idea for your game. Is it:
• A Spaceship? • A Castle ? • A Maze ? • A Haunted House with ghosts ? • A Forest with big trees ? • A Secret Island ?
2. Make your game 50 squares long. Every 5 or 6 squares, something good or bad should happen to the player. Use lots of colors and make your drawings big and exciting.
3. Make some playing pieces from card with each player's first name written on.
4. Use some of these words, or use your own: • Go back 3 Squares • You find a secret tunnel, go forward 4. • It's dark. Nobody can see you. Add 2 to your next throw. • Miss a turn. • You are tired. Miss a turn. • The guards are sleeping. Have an extra turn. • Go back to the Start. • You find a map. Go to number 25. • Take the secret road to number 40. • Have another go. • You have gone the wrong way. Go back 10.
Game board
Situation CardsWrite onto each card a situation related to the story which will cause players to go forward or backwards a number of spaces or miss a turn.
Dice or Spinner
Markers
Playing the Game
•Each child chooses a game marker.
•Decide who will begin the game.
•Throw dice (or spin) and move markers accordingly.
•Whenever marker lands on an situation square, child is to pick up a situation card and follow the instructions.
•Game is finished when end square is reached.
Go back 2 spaces
Go back 2 spaces
END
Miss one turnGo ahead 2
spaces
START
Take the Shortcut Pass
Take an extra turn
Take an extra turn
Go ahead 2 spaces
Miss one turn
Go back 2 spaces
Take an extra turn
Go ahead 2 spaces
Take the Shortcut
Pass
Go ahead 2 spaces
