In this weeks lecture we were asked to tweak and iterate some of the Ancient Games we had studied. The game I decided to iterate was Senet, as it was the game that held my interest the most.
After playing a few games of Senet with a friend, i decided to think about what were the underline problems with this game and what i could do to make it better.
The first thing i started thinking about was the pace of the game. Bare in mind that we were given kendall rules and told to play them (7 pawns each on 10x3 board).
The games were okay but a little slow, so I made my first iteration to reduce pawns of each player to 5. This really helped with the pace of the game as it allowed players to work their way around the board instead of just overtaking.
We played a few more times and the reduction of counters really helped make the game more exciting and engaging.
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