Overview
The Eternal Purge is a cooperative, exorcism-themed roleplaying game for five to ten players, each assuming the role of a “religious” agent sent through time by their deities. Together they uncover and cleanse cursed artifacts in order to stop the Epicenter and halt the Eternal Purge, while resisting corruption themselves.
My Role
On this project, I was in charge of designing and creating the rulebook as well as recording and editing the gameplay trailer video. Alongside those responsibilites, the entire team took a part in the design of the game.
Reflection
Part of our team actually did get a second chance to rework the game's design and reprint and reorder board elements in order to prepare us for an award show at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). We were able to add more characters and new items and tiles to diversify the gameplay. I think if we had one last chance to go back and finalize this project, we would do one last round of balancing of mechanics.
Overall, the team is very proud of the product we made. We were able to get down our concept and plan our tasks efficiently at the very beginning of the project. The one thing we struggled with as a group was the design of the rulebook, myself especially. It went through a lot of iterations and layouts to figure out what made the most sense and looked the best for players to be able to learn how to play the game as it was meant to be played.