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Carnival Zombie
Indra
Alchemist
Agate Studio

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Designing Board Games
Case Study: Carnival Zombie
Agate Studio 2014©
How to Design Interactive Boardgames

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Why we must start to play
(and make) Boardgames?
• Social Social Social and Social
• Improve strategic thinking, creative, bla bla bla (skip
this one, I’m not doing scientific research..) its all
about having fun after all
• In the end, lets play (and start to make) boardgame!

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Case Study: Carnival Zombie

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Game Overview: Carnival Zombie
• Boardgamegeek©2014
• Carnival Zombie is a Co-Op Zombie Survival with
interesting mechanic to play, plot twist and dark story.

6. Background Story
• Lets start with some
bedtime story.. “Once upon
a time..
• Goals of player:
– Survive
– Escape the city with
Zeppelin/cross the bridge/sail
to sea with ship/kill the
leviathan

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How To Play
• Goals of the Game
– Survive!
• Point of Interest in Gameplay Mechanic
– Area Control Battle with Zombie swarm
– Day-Night System + Exploration
– Nightmare Event
– Realm of Abyss
– Before-Ending Plot Twist

8. Area Control & Battle
• During the Night
– Player will stay in the center
and wait the zombies to
come.
– Player have only 1 action
– Player can pay 1 Stress Level
(Health) to get bonus action
– Each phase during the night
will spawn more zombie

9. Character

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Day-Night System + Exploration
• During the Night
– Player can only fight the zombies (infected)
• During the Day
– Player can explore city to look for equipment/survivor
– Use ability to help comrade (heal/explore)
– Move to the next area

11. Equipment and Nightmare Card

12. Realm of Abyss
• Every time player kill the
zombies (infected)
• Player must carefully “drop”
the infected into the abyss

13. Realm of Abyss
• “Drop” not “Put”
• If player fails to drop it and
the zombies fall outside of
Abyss, it’ll return back to
battlefield and the player
who failed to put it lose 1
life.
• Done? Not Yet! See this one

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Before Ending Plot Twist
• Call for Helps Scenario
– Radio Signal
• Zeppelin
• Ship
• Cross the Bridge Scenario
• Eliminate the Leviathan
– Crafting Holy Bomb

15. Pros-Cons
• Pros
– Worth to Buy & Play!
– Interesting Mechanic and
Storyline
– Have Easy to Very Hard
difficulties
– Beautiful Arts
– All in one Board
– No Dice Factor
• Cons
– Awkward translations (from
Italy to Eng)
– Super Expensive
– Really hard game to win
Conclusion: Lets make Boardgames!

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Documentation

17. Thank You
(open funding to buy this game.. :D)