Many things have changed about my board game that I am in the process of creating. The least amout of changes are being made towards the gameplay, which is reassuring to me. I am pretty sure I have a a solid core mechanic and that the little details need to be worked out.
The biggest changes come with my theme. Originally I had titled the game Paleozoica, a nod to the paleolithic era in earth history. This is when life became more complex and really started to flourish. However, the world of cellular organisms exists to this day, and instead of creating this whole natural-hostorical theme to go with it. I will instead make it a broad theme about life on the cellular level in general. Here is a logo I created:
This will allow the style of art on my game to be extremely minimal. For example, before I was going to have the game board represent a tidal pool, since life formed in the ocean, this would make sense for my paleozoic theme. However, in reality, you don't see that kind of detail on the microscopic level. It would make sense for the board to be dark, and represent the kind of fluid real cells would be found in. The cells will be bright colors, glowing with vitality. I think this design will be more striking.
While cells small clumps of cells are the characters in play for my game, it will really represent life as we know it in general... you are born, you grow, you multiply and you consume. That is what life does and if I can translate that into a board game, I think that would be awesome.
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