Minigames Design Challenges

Chapter 1 of the book advocates a structured exercise as a warmup for your game design team or class. Restricting the time and materials available lowers the standard and thereby removes the pressure to perfect. Freed of that, you can explore and reach more innovative ideas. Here are some additional ideas for design challenges within that format:

1. Checkers mod
2. Make a new Dominion card (just write the rules; play it using another card so you don't have to create new materials)
3. Sudoku mod
4. Combine two games (e.g., Domionion + Pente)
5. Turn a video game into a board game (mechanically; the plot isn't important)