“Bored with Board Games” or: How I spent a decade slowly working on my own board game

    I’ve been working on making a video game slowly over the last 3 months. Since then I’ve been posting my edited pictures and links to the very rough first drafts of the game. I’ve really enjoyed sharing what I’m doing with other people, as I get feedback and a sense of power that causes me to develop a god-complex. Okay, not really, but I do enjoy sharing my ideas.

    It only occurred to me the other day that I’ve actually had another project that has been several years in the works. Literally, I’ve spent about 10 years slowly adapting it and changing the rules, as well as adding in additional characters. At this time, the game has about 150 characters from movies, comic books, video games, and books.

    The goal of the game is to select a team of characters, or even just a single character, and then duke it out with the other players. You can have a team that is comprised of Jedi, wizards, superheroes, super-villains, mythical gods, giant monsters and robots, or pretty much any other category. The game is only won when your team of characters is the last left on the field. 

    And what, you are asking yourself, is this game called? Well, I actually came up with the idea for the game and played it for a year or two with my family before we finally realized it needed a name. At that point, we started calling it “Super Smash Characters”. Yeah, really original.

    But before you start decrying this as a “Super Smash Bros” knock-off, just play the game a little and realize that the two are pretty distinct. One thing that I’ve done on purpose is that I’ve left some of the characters purposely unbalanced, because I figure that if you take a character that the other players know is unbalanced, they are going to gang up on you. If you want to be really creative, try playing it with Lego characters and on a Lego map that you put together.

Example Character Card:

If you are interested in downloading the game, follow this link: 

http://www.mediafire.com/download/174gta43n2a6v98/Super_Smash_Characters.zip

Here is the list of characters (Warning, it is pretty long, and it also doesn’t have ALL of the characters I’ve done):

4 Sword Links

Aang

Agumon

Altair

Antman

Anubis

Arbiter

Assassin

Banjo-Kazooie

Barbarian

Barbie

Batman

Battle Droids

Black Panther

Bolt

Boo

Bowser

Captain America

Captain Falcon

Charizard

Chell

Classic Godzilla

Darth Maul

Darth Vader

Deadpool

Doctor Octopus

Donkey Kong

Dr. Doofenshmirtz

Dragon Warrior Tamer

Druid

Emperor Palpatine

Feraligatr

Freya

The Flash

Frozone

Gabumon

Galen Marek

Gandalf

General Grievous

Gimli

Green Arrow

Green Goblin

Green Lantern

Guilmon

Harry Potter

Hawkeye

Hulk

Impmon

Ironman

James Bond

Joker

Katara

King Kong

Kirby

Knuckles

Kratos

Legolas

Lex Luthor

Link

Lui Kang

Mace Windu

Mage

Magneto

Mario

Mario Kart

Master Chief

Master Hand

MechaGodzilla

Megaman

Megatron

Metabee

Mew

Mewtwo

Modern Godzilla

Mothra

Mr. Incredible

Mrs. Incredible

Mumbo

Naruto

Necromancer

NES Mario

Neutranurse

Nightcrawler

Optimus Prime

Peach

Perry the Platypus

Phineas and Ferb

Pikachu

Pitfall Harry

Po

Pokemon Trainer

Prince of Persia

Qui-Gonn Jinn

Ratchet

Renamon

Rhino

Rogue (WoW)

Rogue (Marvel)

Rokusho

Samus

Sasuke

Scarlet Spider

Sceptile

Scorpion

Shadow

Shao Khan

Shifu

Sonic

Spiderman

Storm

Sub-zero

Sumilidon

Superman

Tai Lung

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Thor

Toph

Veemon

Venom

Voldemort

Walker Boh

Wallace and Gromit

War Machine

Warbandit

Warrior

Wasp

White Witch

Wolverine

Wonder Woman

Yoda

Yoshi

Young Link

Zelda

Zeus

Zuko