While surfing the web, looking for information on hnefatafl variants, I stumbled across an Etsy site which offered for sale a game called 'Zombies Attack'. The story of the game was that zombies attack a high school with children, and the children need to find a way to escape. The Etsy site didn't give the full rules of the game, but it was clear to me the game was loosely based on hnefatafl. So, obviously, I had to either get a copy of the game, or make a version myself. Before I had made up my mind one way or another, the Etsy listing disappeared, but fortunately, I had saved the board layout, and what little was given in terms of the rules of the game:
Making a version of the game myself meant coming up with ideas for the pieces and the board. As to the pieces, I thought one day that using minion figurines would give the game a really quirky feel. I ordered several sets of minions as well as cheap plastic discs, in different colours, on which I would place them.
Twelve minions would be the school children, on blue or yellow discs (it wasn't clear on the Etsy site what the significance of blue vs yellow squares on the board was).
Twenty-eight minions, on green discs and with their overalls painted black, were to be the zombies.
And now to the board .... I couldn't really come up with an idea for a board that would fit the quirky minions, until one day I thought "bubblewrap"! Board made from bubblewrap, with more coloured discs for the 'squares' would fit very nicely!
So then it was a matter of measuring out the board and gluing the discs in place.
Quirky or what?
And then, once the board was done, place the minions on it.
