What is Morpho Board?
Morpho Board: Simplifying Board Game Design
Stuck for a new game idea? Brainstorm with your Morpho Board ! Creating new designs has never been easier!
Need a quick prototype of an unusual board? Don't waste time drawing it by hand, use your Morpho Board!
Check out the board that started it all!
Get started with Morpho Board! In just minutes, you could have your home-made game board printed on your inkjet or laser printer.
Even if you've never designed a game before, Morpho Board will get your creative juices flowing! You'll have so much fun creating different board designs, you'll practically burst with ideas!
Morpho Board: Random Board Game Design
Imagine the landscape upon which your new board game springs to life. What if you could change the scenery at the click of a button? What if your board could instantly provide a unique challenge every time your game was played? With Morpho Board, it happens at the click of a button!
Your Morpho Board design is just the beginning! With each click of the Print button, you create a new board that is based on the original, except that it is randomly rearranged.This means that your game has virtually unlimited replay value!
Who Wrote Morpho Designs?
Hi! My name is Mitchell Allen. During the summer of 1999, I wrote a random board generator for my game, Gauntlet. I used Microsoft Access 97 because of its powerful report capabilities. As I worked on Gauntlet, I began to visualize a general-purpose random board generator! The more I thought about it, the clearer it became: if I could create enough games that took advantage of this randomness, I could revolutionize the entire board game industry! I would be rich! Whee! |
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Morpho Designs was born from that vision. I rewrote the program in Visual Basic, naming it Morpho Board. Of course, I had to learn how to make great games. Otherwise, nobody would care about my nifty little program. So, I joined BoardGameGeek to see what made a game great (or not) and the Board Game Designers Forum (BGDF), to learn how other designers did things. |
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Somewhere along the line, my thinking shifted. I began to look at Morpho Board as more of a prototyping tool. I think it had to do with the fact that it was more fun cranking out different designs than actually finishing any of the games I made up around those designs. According to the wise ones at BGDF, you actually have to have an idea for a game before creating the board! Bah! A minor detail, that. Function follows form, in this case, and I believe you will find Morpho Board to be an excellent brainstorming tool. |
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While I intend to focus on Morpho Board as a prototyping tool, I will showcase its talents as a game system. |