Crazy Bags
”疯狂的垒包“——棒球桌游
baseball board game
2013.5 - 2013.6
D&I, Tongji, Shanghai
I'm a fan of baseball and I've been playing softball (it has similar rules with baseball) for more than 5 years. Two friends and I developed CRAZY BAGS during sophomore. Crazy Bags is a baseball-based board game for party. It involves body movements and sound. The result depends on one’s reactivity and flexibility.
My main contributions include the play flow, prototype for bracelets and bags and illustration of the play guide. To make our board game more friendly and easily recognized, we chose marmot as our mascot.
Components
 7 BagsMade of cotton cloth with sewed baseball pattern strings. Filled with sand, it feels very soft in your hand, you can’t even help grabing it in the game. According to the feedback from players, they are very fond of the touch feeling and would play with it alone. |  7 braceletsThe colorful bracelets are to represent your team and to record your scores. We transform the baseball field into one routine with marks of bases in real baseball game, you can move the clip to record your scores. In this way, we saved play space and improve the experience of players. The game is to get points by catching bags, the one who first run a whole circle on the bracelet wins. |  45 property cardsEvery property card has a logo to guide player to take reaction. Property cards include triky cards, award cards, point cards and professional cards. People who picked a care needs to do as written, such as to change your direction (a dramatical reverse), the one of your left step forward, etc. to make the game more dramatical. |
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 49 colorcardsWe have color cards in seven kinds of color to show your target. |
How to Play
1 Get Equipped
Get equipped. Every player chooses a color for himself, then he gets a bag and a bracelet of the color, and he also gets the color cards of every player’s.
2 Choose Color Card
Choose a target color card secretly! If you choose color of other player, you can either catch your own bag or the target-color bag. If you choose your own color, you can’t catch any bags, other people can’t catch your bag either.
3 “BAT” and “FIELD”
Every one show the color card at the same time and catch bags as soon as the color cards are showed. To make sure that the colors are showed at the same time, players need to say “READY~GO!” READY for getting ready, GO as a command to start robbing.
4 Count Scores
Count the points. A bag’s score equals to the number of players who chose to show it. If you get the right bag, you get the bag’s score, otherwise you lose the score of the wrong bag you catch.
5 Move On or Go Back
Move according to the points you get or lose. When you come to the first base, second base and third base, you need to turn over a property card, what’s going on is written on it. Professional cards ask players to react quickly, users can choose whether to play with it or not
6 Who’s The Winner
The one who first runs a whole circle on the bracelet wins..