Free the Nightingale
TEAM
Group
CONTRIBUTIONS
Game Design, Playtesting,
YEAR
2021
GENRE
Board Game
GAME ENGINE
Roll20
PLATFORM
IRL
What the active board looked like
Overview of Group Project
For a Game Design course, I worked with an artist who goes by @speccart on Instagram to turn the Grimm Brothers' Yorinda and Yoringel into a cooperative board game. I led the design process and handled all playtesting on Roll20.
To support four-player co-op, I reimagined the story as a tale of siblings trying to save their mother, who’s been turned into a nightingale. Players must collect magical flower petals to break the curse, while being chased by a witch named Yorinda, who chases players and teleports, inspired by a Left 4 Dead-style enemy mechanic.
The project taught me how to adapt stories into gameplay, balance co-op mechanics, and design collaboratively in a remote setting due to Covid19.
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