Week 8 Post of my Royal Game of Ur Iterations

In this week’s lesson we pared up to play The Royal Game of Ur. Or task was to play through it first and then to come up with our iterations to the post them up on our blogs.

With my first iterations the first one that I had come up with that I thought would work well was name the “death square”. This “death square” was situated on the square directly after the second rosette the 9^th square on the board. What this meant was I was changing the mechanics of the game because if a players piece had landed on the “death square” which is situated the square after the second rosette the player in whom the piece belongs to would have to take that piece off the board and start over again with that piece.

The second iteration made in the game was one of at a single point on either side of the players board was a “dual square”. The dual points on the board are situated in the safe zones 3 squares into the board just before the rosette. The dual would only be activated if both players had a piece on the dual square at the same time that is when a dual would commence. The way in which it worked was each player would have a dice that they would roll at the same time and the player with the high number from rolling the d4 would win which allowed the player to jump into the middle row in between the dual zone, it also meant for the loosing player that piece that lost the dual they would then have to miss the next two goes and the winner of the dual would then have the opportunity to make progress without being caught up.

My final iteration was the easiest to come up, the reason for this was the fact that from just playing the game, it felt that the game dragged on too long and after a while got slightly boring until the time that the victor came about. The iteration was instead of the players starting off with 7 pieces each to start off with 5 each instead. This meant that the game consisted of the same amount of dice but had 10 playable pieces instead of the 14.