Paper Wars, The A4er Strikes Back

Paper Wars was a board game that I created a while ago, it was composed of a plethora of paper cut out ships and a board made out of whatever was nearby. The game consisted of two fleets of ships that would take turns moving and attacking using rulers and dice. Each ship was different with their own abilities, from the quick strikes of the fighter to the methodical mine laying of the bomber. The game was farily regular in its turn based strategy but the true fun part of it was how you could set up the board. Only have a ping pong table and phones? Ok! use the ping pong table as the arena and the phones as obstacles.

And while this style of design would be impractical unnecessary for a larger board game producer, the same cannot be said for the production of a video game. The main draw of the game would be its art style and animations, instead of a gritty deep space battles with soaring sound tracks and dazzling visuals. The game could separate itself from the rest of the market by making the ships look like paper. the sound effects, Pew pews and pshhhhhhhs from the kids playing it. And the animation of movement, the placement of a ruler and moving with a finger. Additionally the terrain could be house hold objects, placed in a pre match set up by the player(s). Despite the creative draw of this style, there would be some problems. mainly that it might turn off certain players due to its simple visuals. It may seem cheap, or hastily put together. To fix this we could do something that would take ALOT more time but would add an option to the game that would make it more accessible. There could be a toggled option in the settings that would switch between classic graphics (paper, rulers, dice, sound effects, etc) to advanced mode with more realistic design (full 3d ships, battle lines, missile animations, professional sound effects, etc) The only problem with this is that it would muddy the water on what the original vision would by. I'm interested to know what you opinions and if you have an alternitive to butchuring the initial idea.