School of Inafune 2-14

Natsumi Jinbo

Hello everyone team JYK’s director Jinbo here.
We only have 4 lessons left in Inafune-Juku

This week in Inafune-Juku
We talked about Tokyo Game Show, and Ono-sensei brought us some board games today. This is my first time seeing such ‘hardcore’ board games. it was a very interesting lesson today (it always is thou).

Actual board game has that “richness” as an object, and it is sort of convincing. I thought it made the board game that much realistic. Also the range of tactics triggered by the simple and easy to understand rules have made me rediscover the origin of games.

This week in team JYK
We are working on the planning sheets.
All the game system, ideas, and everything about the game are in the planning sheets. The whole team is working so hard on it.
Hopefully the planning sheets will be good enough, so it can be used to start developing the game.



Team SIN - Takumi Honma

Ono-sensei brought a board game, and talked about the world setting to match the system of the game.
The world setting can be tricky. When you think you have a perfect one for the game, but if you see it from a player’s point of view, nothing works anymore. Just when you think you just build the most amazing system of all time, it might sounds like a total mess when you simplified it into one sentence. It is even harder for me, because I have difficulties putting my thoughts into words.
A project plans are meant to be presented to someone. In order to do so, we need to know how to express your idea to the listeners. Up until I joined Inafune-Juku, I never had any chances to present my ideas to anyone. All I did was speak to myself, inside my head. I did not know how hard it is to explain ideas to someone. I hope I can improve even a bit of my presentation skill in the rest of lessons.



Asami Mouri

Ono-sensei brought us some board games today!

“Lost Cities”
“Venice Connection”
“Drei Magier”

We learned how important to keep the world setting and the game system consistence. If they are kept, design, game rule, will come together automatically.

After the class I thought about the digital games I created before and examined if they kept that consistency so that players won’t get confused.

“Did I make the players do unnecessary things and causing them not to experiencing the system itself?”
“The game system, and the world setting, are they estranged from each other?”

I discover so much in each Inafune-Juku.
Today I learned that in game design wise, board games are much easier to design than digital games. Board games have less elements to consider, (program, music, and etc), and easier to study .