2 Shades - Collaborative Board Game Design

Copyright Registration Number: L-68449/2017
IIT Kanpur, Nov 2015 | Team: 4

2 shades is a collaborative board game in which 2 players have to accomplish the objective by working as a team. The objective is to collaborate with the other player and swap the black and white tiles on the board to obtain the chosen pattern. The game pack contains a board with pockets, square tiles of black and white colour to be placed in the pockets and a dice with the pictures of three animals, one on two faces. Two players of age 6 and above collaborate to swap the black and white tiles on the board to obtain the pattern chosen from the instruction manual. Multiple patterns have been given in the instruction manual, that can be formed by rearranging the black and white tiles. However, one player moves the white tile and other player moves the black tile as per the move of the animal that comes on throwing the dice. The movement of the three animals - Camel, Horse and Elephant is similar to the movement defined in Chess. The patterns are classified as Easy, Medium, Hard and Guru, based on the difficulty level of forming the patterns. Nobody loses in this game. Both the players help each other and win by completing the chosen pattern.