Ruilan Bolton
Chinese New Year Lessons
For all the First Time Celebrators
About
Players: 1-4 Players
Game Type: Board Game
Status: Complete
In Chinese New Year Lessons, you play as parents of Chinese adoptees. You are working together to learn about and run your first Chinese New Year celebration for your children. Players must work together to uncover as many matching sets of cards as possible.
Game Process
Preliminary Concept and Research
(September 2023)
As a Chinese adoptee during the One-Child Policy, I believed it was important to create a game about life of an adoptee. I wanted to explore my culture as well as the unique challenges that all Chinese adoptees face. I began with my preliminary research and initial constraints for the game.
Game Ideas and Idea Selection
(October 2023)
At this point, I created 6 possible ideas for my game. Ultimately, I decided to make prototype builds of idea 1 and idea 5.
Prototyping
(November 2023)
After prototyping and much iteration, I decided to pursue idea 5, focusing on the process of learning about a culture so that it may be passed down to others.
Current Build
(Present)
My game has evolved into a game about Chinese culture as a whole and learning about the history and legends, traditions, food, and clothing of Chinese New Year. The game emphasizes the importance of culture and the depth it has. I am currently in the final stages of refining my game. I hope to publish this game in the near future.
Game Boards made by me.
Box Art made by Deep AI, edited by me.
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Note: These boxes would not be final. They are an example of the style of the box should I pursue publishing.