Hairy vs scaly
Two-player physical game designed for children with accessibility restrictions
Game Design
Visual Design
Timeline:
4 Days
Build a crazy creature using various body parts, whoever's pieces get used more wins.
Goals
• Create a physical game for children with accessibility issues presented by the
Holland-Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
• Design with the consideration of as many of the player personas as we can to ensure a broad range of children can enjoy playing our game
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Contributions
• Overall game design
• Visual design
• Physical design & construction
• Play-testing & balancing
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• Experience designing with extreme consideration for accessibility
• Experience creating a physical board game
• More knowledge on how to increase accessibility and different ways players may face challenges
• Hairy vs Scaly won a top 5 among 20 teams
Outcomes:
• Choose a team: Hairy or Scaly - grab your assigned board
• Place the neutral body piece in an open space to start
• Shake up the bag of pieces to randomize the selection
• Each player draws 3 pieces onto their board, whoever draws the most of their type starts
• Slot one of your pieces anywhere on the neutral body then discard your remaining 2 pieces and redraw 3 more
• The next player proceeds in the same manner
• If the bag empties before all connections are filled, shuffle your discard piles into the bag and continue
• Once no more pieces are able to be played, the game concludes and scores are calculated
Instructions:
