Territory Takeover
2023 Board game with RFID, exam project Top grade
An immersive board game for an exam project. RFID chips in the pieces detect when a player captures an area, and the board lights up in their colour and counts the points.
The game
Up to four players move around a landscape and fight over arenas. If you land on an empty arena, it is yours, and you get a point for every turn you end there. If someone is already standing there, you duel with cards. The first to 10 points wins.
RFID chips in the pieces detect when a player captures an arena. The board then lights up in their colour and keeps count of the points, and music and lights are built into the table.
Building it
It was our exam project in Digital Design og Udvikling at HTX. The table is custom built in wood, the landscape is made of foam, and the arenas and pieces are 3D printed. Hundreds of LEDs had to be soldered, so we cut all the wires to the same length to save time on measuring. That left a few of them too short, but I think it saved more time than it cost.
