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DIY Game Design Studio - (Zorbit)

This document provides instructions for designing and creating your own DIY board games. It outlines the materials needed such as markers, game pieces, dice or cards. It describes the process of brainstorming game ideas, choosing a board template, decorating the board, adding rules and components, testing the game and adjusting rules. It provides tips like including play money, different rules for colored spaces, making cards with instructions, and adding themes for older kids that require research. The goal is to encourage creative problem solving through designing original games.

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DIY Game Design Studio - (Zorbit)

This document provides instructions for designing and creating your own DIY board games. It outlines the materials needed such as markers, game pieces, dice or cards. It describes the process of brainstorming game ideas, choosing a board template, decorating the board, adding rules and components, testing the game and adjusting rules. It provides tips like including play money, different rules for colored spaces, making cards with instructions, and adding themes for older kids that require research. The goal is to encourage creative problem solving through designing original games.

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I N G K IT

HOME LEARN

DIY Game Design Studio

www.zorbitsmath.com
What You’ll Need
Playing games encourages creative
● Crayons or markers
problem solving but making your own
● Game pieces (checkers, pen caps, washers,
games brings that to a whole other level.
etc.)
● Dice, coins, cards, or any device/rule for
moving your game pieces.
● Anything else your game deems necessary.
Designing Your Own Game
1. Talk about the questions on the Game Brainstorm page.
2. Choose a game board template that best suits your game. Are you racing
towards a goal (ie Snakes and Ladders) or doing laps (ie Monopoly)? You
may also wish to design your own.
3. Decorate the game board to suit your game and add anything that helps
you play (ie chutes, ladders, etc.)
4. Test your game by playing it. Adjust the rules to make it longer, shorter, more
challenging, etc.

DIY Game Tips


1. How might you include play money in your game? How is it collected? What can you
spend it on?
2. Colour some squares and have rules for each colour. For example, do 5 jumping jacks
when you land on green; move back 3 spaces when you land on blue.
3. Make your own cards to go with the game to encourage writing or art. For example,
when you land on an even number, draw a “Monster Card” and follow the instructions
on it.
4. Older kids may wish to include a theme that requires a bit of research. For example, use
the pyramid game board, call in “Mount Olympus” and include some Greek gods along
the way.

SEE HOW TO PLAY


What’s the story? What do you need to How do you win?
play?

What are the key rules?


Choose six colours and number them.
Roll two dice - one to select a colour and one to determine how many sections to fill in with that
colour. Keep rolling until your masterpiece is complete.
WITH ZORBIT’S

Kids Can fly!

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