A picture of the game in real life
What is Neon Nexus ?
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Neon Nexus is a physical puzzle board game made for a school project. In this game, 2 players must reproduce a puzzle, while using different pawns.
• 2 Players
• Made with Adobe Illustrator, and with physical materials
• Project made during October - January 2022
• 2 person Team - I was in charge of GD, LD, and the physical part
The constraint for the creation of this game was to create a board game based on a board game dating back to the 19th century. This game is based on Renju, which is a variant of Gomoku.
How to play ?
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To play the game, players will have to take the manual. In the latter is an appendix that contains
figures classified in 3 difficulties: Easy, Intermediate and Difficult. Players choose the figures they want to perform
and reproduce one on the board and prepare the pieces with roles indicated by the manual. The game can begin ! Players will place a pawn each their turns depending on its movement.
Careful ! A pawn is only playable once, but a player can discard a playable pawn to throw one other. The game ends when the figure is complete, or if the player has no more pawns.
figures classified in 3 difficulties: Easy, Intermediate and Difficult. Players choose the figures they want to perform
and reproduce one on the board and prepare the pieces with roles indicated by the manual. The game can begin ! Players will place a pawn each their turns depending on its movement.
Careful ! A pawn is only playable once, but a player can discard a playable pawn to throw one other. The game ends when the figure is complete, or if the player has no more pawns.
Each paws have a different way to move
Puzzle Design
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While I worked with my schoolmate about the conception of the game, the artistic direction, most of my work was directed toward the puzzle design.
The main intentions were to design puzzle using pop-culture references. For exemple, Pac-Man, an Arcade Box, and a video-game heart were the models.
3 difficulty mode for puzzles were made, making a total of 14 puzzle. Here's an exemple :
An easy puzzle
An intermediary one
A difficult one
Difficulty was determined with how many pawns you will be using, how many there is to place, how many ways you can solve the puzzle. It required a good amount of playtests.
