Tabletop Game 04- Theme and Concept Statement

“ Unleash the Beast and Fight to the Death.”

    My theme will revolve around giant monsters. The game also has a story which will connect to them. The story is simple, two scientists have created giant kaiju creatures. To see which scientists has created the more superior specimens, both scientists, the two players, will use their kaiju to fight against one another to the death. Each player will control a vast array of diverse giant kaiju monsters to fight with from a titanic multi-armed Ape to a Lovecraftian tentacle horror. Players will also have the chance to destroy their opponents monsters through the use of action cards or special abilities that a number of the monsters have.

 Similar Themes:

  Giant monster battles are all over the place in media. Some of the most notable examples being from the movie series, Godzilla. Godzilla films always feature a number of giant monsters, normally called Kaiju which means "strange monster" in Japanese, who fight each other in a city or some area populated by humanity.

 Godzilla vs King Ghidorah

Godzilla vs Space Godzilla

   Other giant monster fighting films include the newly acclaimed movie, Pacific Rim. Pacific Rim follows the same formula as Godzilla with the giant monster showdown but instead includes giant robots controlled by humans.

  There are also many video games and board games which share the giant monster fighting theme as well. Here are some good examples:

Godzilla Destroy All Monsters was a video game where you'd take control of a giant monster and fight a number of others to become the winner, or king of the monsters!

War of the Monsters follows the same formula as Destroy All Monsters. Take control of a variety of monsters and fight for supremacy while destroying everything around you.

 Kaiju Combat

Godzilla Kaiju World Wars is a great board game where you control kaiju and try to take down your opponent's kaiju.

Color Scheme?

  So my game's going to need some prominent colors to keep the visual look of the game and theme together. I have a few ideas for this of course.

For the Kaiju cards maybe some variety of reds, blues and greens might look nice. It'll give them a lively look and the red and green are symbolic colors for ideas like violence or radioactive which fit with the idea of a Kaiju. Also a lot of Kaiju seem to favor these three color sets. It could be because they're symbolic of fire, earth, and water which some kaiju designs are based around.

I was considering that the basic cards should be a sort of earthy tone. The lack of vibrancy wouldn't clash with the lighter colors of the Kaiju cards.

Another idea for an overall color scheme. Very earthy and balanced. Many Kaiju designs include reds, yellows, browns, greens, and blues so this one hits a few of those.

Triad scheme like this would help with differentiating each type of card for the game. Might not offer too many opportunities though when it comes to the Kaiju cards which should have a large selection of colors to choose from.

Another good overall color scheme which could give a lot of good color opportunities if I figure out what should get what in terms of color combination.