“Castle Siege”April 6, 2017

EF 152 Spring 2017 (s17 E-06)

Mike Clay, Saad Binnamis, Abdullah Aldwsry, Lawrence Melkulcok

Customer Requirement’s

• Target age: Children over the age of 7 years to teens up to 17 years old.

• Target audience: Nephews, cousins, brother, sister, etc.

• This strategic board game was designed to allow the players to fill the shoes of a medieval king fortifying your land and conquering the enemies territory.

Conceptual Design

• Siege Engine was chosen to be a strategy board game set in medieval times. As king you see to your kingdoms prosperity by creating an army, improving your defenses, and building your castle. Thus, we have a purpose, outlast, or crush your opponents in total war, prove your superiority!

• Players have the ability to design a castle and take out enemy castles by drawing resource or attack cards

• The last player with a standing castle is declared the winner

Final Design

• The final design consisted of a revised version of the initial proposal in several ways.

• The castle pieces were enlarged to enhance the in game experience after a prototype was created which turned out to be too small.

• An app was created to reduce cost for production additionally allowing players to draw cards virtually on a randomized

Marketing Video

Customer Feedback

• After the prototype was created, criticism was received which led to the enlargement of the castle pieces allowing players to interact and build their desired castle with ease.

• Overall, the participants chosen to test Siege Engine were very pleased with the final outcome of the game.

Cost and Time Estimates

• Cost (Actual):

• 1x Game Board: $7.30

• 25x Sticker Sheets: $6.29

• 1 Kg 3D Filament: $22.99

• Total: $36.58

• Cost (1000 unitsl):

• Game Board: $6k

• Sticker Sheets: $857

• 3D Filament: ~$800

• Total: $7657

• Profit: $14 per unit

• Time Estimation:

• Approximately 75 man hours went into this project starting with generating project ideas on March 6th to the finalization of the product on April 6th.

Conclusions

• Overall, Siege Engine allows players to display their imagination and creativity with this interactive empire board game.