What is Axis?
Axis is a tabletop game for 2 players in which through tilting of the board and placement of tiles a puck must be kept on one's side of the board to win. Inspiration for the game were traditional strategy simulations like chess and go. The goal was to design a game whose rules are as easy to understand as possible and in which all outcomes were determined by gravity.
Axis was developed in collaboration with another designer - Dag Eberhart.
Achieving a high fidelity prototype within 4 months
Through rapid prototyping and daily user tests we were able to go through many design iterations in a short time frame.
We decided to keep the design scope as minimalistic as possible and to focus on the main mechanic of the game - the tilting of the board. Each tilt of the board had to be an exciting moment to ensure the replay value of the game.
We decided to keep the design scope as minimalistic as possible and to focus on the main mechanic of the game - the tilting of the board. Each tilt of the board had to be an exciting moment to ensure the replay value of the game.
