Over the Christmas break I had assignments to complete, one of these assignments asked me to play one of the ancient games we had been playing, then iterate it.
I will share an iteration that I decided to try and I will explain how the game changed, and if it changed in a good way or a bad way.
So after playing Senet for the first time in a couple of weeks I wanted to make the game quicker because i felt it was too slow for my liking. So I decided to implement a rule that when you role a 6 you would role again and double the number and then you would get to move that many squares.
When playing the iteration it did speed up the game by a fair amount, which was pleasing that my iteration worked. Instead of the game taking around 6-7 mins to get one piece off of the board this time it would only take around 3-5 minutes to take a piece off of the board making the actual game a lot faster to play and complete a whole game.
I would love to share more of how I continued to tweak ancient games however that would start going into my assignment. But I hope you get an idea of how I was able to tweak the game to my liking without breaking the mechanics.
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