GAME DESIGNER

Voracines is a team project I worked on with five other game designers and two artists.

To create the game, we had one constraint: to create a board game based on the theme of “curses.”

We wanted to create a simple but profound game focused on strategy, and all our design choices were geared toward that goal.

After numerous iterations, I am proud to present Voracines!

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When creating the game, the biggest challenge we faced was making it as simple as possible so that it would be easier for everyone to understand.

In Voracines, you have to use cards to propel your roots into the village, but this requires orienting them in space, which could be difficult for some people with traditional cards. The solution we found was to create round cards, which are easier to handle and overlap on the board if necessary.​​

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The board itself has been the subject of much thought and consideration in order to make it balanced and enjoyable for 3 to 5 players. We tested many different versions and concluded that the one you see on the left was the best for 3 to 5 players. We are currently testing a smaller version of the board for 2 players (1 vs 1), in order to make the game playable for 2 to 5 players.

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The tiles were initially designed so that there would always be 1 house for every 5 victims, and the game graphics were created with this in mind. However, after testing the game several times, we concluded that it was better to distribute the points in circles. For example, all tiles on the outside represent 5 victims, while those in the center represent 15 victims and those in between represent 10 victims.

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Finally, we chose wooden sticks for the roots to make them easier to handle, and the colors were chosen from the limited selection offered by the store where we bought them. We thought that even if they looked less like roots, aesthetics were secondary to playability.