This has been a busier week than most, and coming to today, I knew I wouldn’t really have time to make a new thing for this blog, so I went searching through old stuff, and this caught my eye.
A few years ago, I had an idea for a card game entitled Prop Ninjas. The basic premise of the game was that there was a group of ninjas from a remote part of the world who wouldn’t just fight with regular weapons… they’d fight with anything they could get their hands on. One ninja might fight with a rabbit, and his opponent might counter the attack by fighting with a carrot, which the rabbit would eat and get distracted from the opponent’s real attack.
It was an interesting game idea, and not unlike Scribblenauts in some ways. I created 80 cards for the game, and playtested it with some friends. It was an okay game, but it was somewhat flawed, so I let it go.
Anyway, had this game been made, the cards would have needed illustrations, so I started drawing ideas of what the Prop Ninjas themselves would have looked like. Here are the concepts:
