Cultural Desktop Game Design Research

The rudiments of tabletop games started from the ancient Egyptian times of senet and the warring states period.During the capitalist economic crisis of the early 20th century and after world war ii,it became the golden age of desktop game development.In the second half of the 20th century,desktop games entered a downturn because of the impact of video games.Until the Internet era,which relied heavily on electronic products in the 21st century,desktop games returned as a "countertrend" and became the new entertainment and social way for many people.In the tide of gamification thinking,the game of the desktop has been evolving gradually,and the new social value has been unceasingly excavated in every field of society.Board games at the same time also is a kind of brand-new cultural carrier and artistic expression,so I combined with their reading interest,with buddhist world view as the theme,design a board game culture class,for players to play at the same time also can understand some interesting in the buddhist culture common sense.Design process,I try to seek the possibility of gaming in the buddhist theory,at the same time,from the Angle of game mechanics,analyses the similar subjects in the two board games and other classic game,to draw inspiration from it.After several times of the prototype test and modification,established the final rules of the game,and my professional advantages into full play,the game art design,with a final version"entity" and "digital" in two ways.