Dragon Journey (2025)
‘Dragon Journey’ is the final game design project for my Game Design class at the University of Michigan - Flint. The game is designed like CandyLand, where you move around the board from start to finish. However, instead of just using colored cards, it uses a dice roll to determine the player’s turn. Also, different icons on the path will affect the player's turn and the chances of winning the game. The cards are like SceneIt games, where the Buzz cards determine the action for the players’ move, either forward or backward. The game explores ‘Survival of the Fittest’, moving through the game and seeing how each player reaches home in one piece without relying on one another.
The project is themed ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ because not only do I love the franchise, but there are not very many physical games. The franchise is only known for a variety of video games. The objective of the game is to survive the journey getting back home without your character getting delayed or killed.
Board Game Design
Box Packaging Design
Game Rules
1. The player who is aged between all the players gets to go first.
a. If there are three players aged 18, 21, and 22, the 21 year old gets to go first
Roll a dice and move on the path on the board
Continue on the path towards home.
If you land on a question-marked space, pick up a card, and it will determine your fate.
a.Depending on the card, you will either move up, move back, or stay here
If you land on a Dragon Hunter space, you skip your next turn
a.Some cards will send you to that space, and you will also lose your next turn when moving to that spot
If you land on a colored marked space, it only shows you where you are located on the board
a.If a card shows you a location mark, you will either move forward or backward to that spot
The first dragon to reach home wins