Forest Feud

Play Design

A game that highlights how urban sprawl disrupts wildlife movement and contributes to deforestation.

2025

Team WorkModel-Making Rhino 3D

Abstract

This game highlights how urban sprawl disrupts wildlife movement and contributes to deforestation.

Players control four animals while using human-made obstacles to block one another, mirroring how development fragments habitats.

Urban Sprawl

Uncontrolled, unplanned expansion of cities into surrounding natural areas.

Purpose Statement

Our goal is to spark awareness of the environmental pressures animals face in an expanding city.

MOODBOARDS

Box Cover.

Packaging.

Instructions.

TEAM IDEATION SKETCHES

Each member brainstormed 5 thumbnails individually. We then met together to discuss and vote. From there, concept sketches were developed.

By this process, we aligned our project theme and direction.

Thumbnail Sketches Surrounding Social Change.

Concept Sketches Surrounding Animals and Nature.

BOARD IDEATION PROCESS

Our team members knew we wanted something 3D, but still simple and familiar.

Rough planning sketch on how to achieve the board elegantly.

BOARD PROTOTYPES

After play-testing, we were certain that the board will be transparent.
This solves the issue of players having to constantly flip the board back and forth, disrupting the immersiveness and quiet concentration.

Prototype 1 play-testing.

Prototype 2 setting measurements .

MAKING-PROCESS

Once the team’s goals and the project’s components-needed were clear and aligned, it was go time.

Token 3D Modeling by Ran & Kate.

Token test prints for printing settings by Yumin.

Token peg & board hole test fits by Yumin.

Token & board spray-painting by Sophia.

Box cover composition by Sophia & Ran.

Token pouches by Ran & Yumin.

Instructions by Eileen, Revision by the team.

Internal design by Sophia, Assembly by Sophia & Ran, Graphics by Eileen.

FINAL PLAY-TEST

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