Game Design: A Quick Update on My Game Design

Hi all, I hope you've been enjoying my musings and theorising on game design.  I haven't got another topic for the normal posts at the moment but I'm trying to think up a good topic to discuss so in the mean time I thought I'd say something about the game I'm designing.

I have in previous post mentioned that I was going to do a 1:72 scale, battle sized WW2 game but recently I've decided to make some significant changes to this.  My game is now going to be a fantasy game as I've been having lots of good ideas to populate my "world" with another reason being that I lack sufficient knowledge about the second world war to make the game fit the background.  For my new setting I am fully designing the "world" which gives me scope to fit any rules that I think are particularly good or if i have a good background idea to work it into the rules rather than trying to fit into a pre-defined framework.

Alongside this change in setting I am going to change the size of the game so not to over extend myself and thinking a bit towards if I were to publish and produce the game to something more realistically achievable, so rather than be a battle sized game it will be scale down to a skirmish/large skirmish game that has the potential to be made to upscale to a larger size.

I've chosen a fantasy setting as I find writing for a fantasy setting easier than a sci-fi one despite (or perhaps because of) being a scientist myself.  The more "medieval" style of fighting will also allow for some characterful rules for fighting in different formations as well as the use of some common fantasy races with some personalised twists to their usual background and feel.  This means there will be the usual elves and dwarves but perhaps not as you'd expect.

So this is a little bit about my game, I am currently in the process of writing both the rules and background for it so I will hopefully be able to put some some previews for you all to read.