Making an ANCIENT Board Game from Scratch

[@htme]

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[@jordanscott6204]

I would but I don’t wear glasses

[@jordanscott6204]

Wait you commented this 11 hours ago and this video was posted like 6 minutes ago

[@Wico90YT]

@@jordanscott6204 they make sunglasses. Also creators schedule videos or hide them until a certain time, hence the time difference.

[@charlesdarwin1564]

Did you just get a sponsor for another creator’s work?

[@cvasniucalexandru2519]

Cool game and video I also made a board game (The Royal Game of Ur) about a year ago but don’t have anybody to play with. My sister does not find it interesting enough.

[@Ivan_Ooze]

i can see the pieces becoming a VERY personal thing. something that people spend a lot of time and effort in making look nice.

[@brendanroos7102]

I now want to play this game with either warhammer or D&D miniatures.

[@nickfulton8173]

. . . Imagine the levels of dice goblin if you had to make your own dice. . .

[@adamjohnsonstudio7910]

How to make an ANCIENT board game from scratch: 1-Take some little scoops out of the dirt 2-Put pebbles in the holes Boom. Mancala

[@Logan-lr6op]

As he was sawing the cube, I was just "He's gonna cut himself, that's not how you do that!" Oh, there it is.

[@CSGraves]

Yeah, & batonning with a folder ain't great for the knife either. 8-/

[@SpaceDodo]

Thanks so much for the collab! Loved it! Man those cast peices sure look nice!

[@SpaceDodo]

Also, a note. Don't saw towards your body. I had no vice or special tools to help me. I was going slow and still got nicked. It wasn't as bad as it looks haha

[@amadnomad93]

Is your finger okay now?

[@SpaceDodo]

@@amadnomad93 yeah it was OK in like a day haha

[@MrCamille9999]

My first thought when I saw (no pun intended) him using that saw on that stick was that it was an accident waiting to happen. Please be careful when handling tools, it might seem like a waste of time at first but you'll kickly change your mind after losing a finger and you'll probably end up saving time and getting much better results when using tools the way they are intended!

[@SpaceDodo]

Yes, I never saw straight down when I have access to a vice and saw horses and other tool! Don't saw towards your body ever. I was trying to be extremely careful and still fuged up.

[@Kore153]

Yeah, I watched the same thing happen on The Modern Rogue with their bow and arrow episode, knew instantly what was about to happen.

[@mauritshagedorn856]

He gave me anxiety when using the saw like that. And my feeling was correct.

[@qwertyuiopaaaaaaa7]

I sawed that way as a teen once and still have a nasty scar on my left index finger. I’m lucky I have full mobility in that finger, but even after 15 years the speed at which I can twitch my left finger up and down is barely perceptibly less rapid than the right. But hey, it only takes one injury to learn a lesson for the rest of your life.

[@resurgam_b7]

Two tips for Adam regarding the actual manufacture of the game: To make a cube from a round stick (without loosing a finger), draw a square on the end of your stick, measure one of the sides of the square then cut a round from the stick at that length. Then simply split the stick along the drawn square edges to end up with your cube. To mark wood, use a thin bit of metal heated in a fire, rather than the flames directly to make much more precise and intricate markings on your pieces. All in all a very interesting concept, I can't judge the game since I haven't played it, but the whole process of designing a fun game is an interesting undertaking and a worthy pursuit!

[@DaBull911]

AYYYYYYYY, I wrote something like this down for the "video idea segment" of the survey awhile back; Happy to see the coincidence of it being made, am happy.

[@micahphilson]

6:45 Oh my God, the second I saw the saw pointing straight at his hand, I got so stressed! I haven't been that anxious about someone cutting since Andy using the drill while making glass! And look how both turned out...

[@danielvest9602]

Really cool episode! As a collector and player of vintage and antique board games this was really cool to see. I hope to see more guest content.

[@tomray8765]

You should do some CHALLENGES! Like how about a PHONOGRAPH using Roman Technology----I would suggest using a crank operated "reel to reel metal, foil tape approach myself to avoid any precision "Threaded rods". How about an electromagnet powered by a voltaic pile?---and possible an ELECTRIC telegraph. Or telephone---Even a "Crude "wireless" telegraph might be possible. Many "Modern" inventions could have been made in Ancient times if only the KNOWLEDGE were available.

[@XTremeCaffeine]

This looks like fun! Definitely a natural progression from dice gambling games that we can imagine Also if this is a game you'll be keeping and playing a lot, a Knucklebone die might last longer than the wooden one

[@SylviaRustyFae]

7:30 That is not a proper 6 sided die... Any two opposing ends of a (six sided) die shud add up to 7. When ya flip it from 6 to 3 to 5; that confirms that isnt the case on your die.

[@SpaceDodo]

Good to know

[@SylviaRustyFae]

@@SpaceDodo It actually applies to all multisided dice too aside from like pyramidal d4s (and odd sided dice). On any given (even sided) die the opposin sides shud always add up to 1 more than the number of sides it has. This works even for a D2 (a coin) which ofc adds up to 3 on its only two opposin sides, but also for a d20 and a properly made d100. On a d6 the difference isnt as important but if you compare a spindown d20 (like an MTG life counter die) to an actual d20 you will see that one can much more easily be marked in a very slight way to assure it to be much more likely to roll high or low as all the high numbers are clustered together on a spindown die. Its mostly a worry of folks more easily weightin a die to get high or low numbers, but it is also just an interesting fact about how dice are made and about how numbers work and a kinda fun fact about how numbers work, eg like how you can get to 21 by addin up the lowest and highest numbers between 1-20 and how that is true of all numbers.

[@Thekrazzykangaroo]

Yeah I was just thinking this

[@mojann1]

It bugged me to but i mean it doesnt affect the play at all

[@casparvoncampenhausen5249]

@@mojann1 well, barely

[@erkdoc5]

I was expecting that saw slip when I saw him gripping it like that. It's lucky it wasn't any worse.

[@bjsteg79]

Good on you keeping up the fight to restore your business and brand. Setbacks like the fire are crushing and disheartening in the moment; but such events force business owners to grow and become flexible, more resilient, and learn advanced problem solving skills. In short time you'll look back and be thankful, to a degree, because it will have made you a stronger leader and build up thicker armor for what the world will throw at you. Congrats, keep up the momentum and keep pushing forward. You're doing great!

[@LeviathanNightDragon]

6:45 Me: *a professional in the carpentry industry* Oh gosh don't do that. Him: *five seconds later learning his lesson*

[@justin9202]

I will gladly support any channel that makes go more popular. It is amazing that it hasn't caught on as much in the United States as it should so I'm hoping in the future one day we will have people playing go about as much as they do in Asiatic countries

[@thatradfailure5197]

Really put your blood and sweat into this, huh?

[@The_Keeper]

Cut to 5000 years from now; Commentator 1: "And we are back, here at the intergalactic tournament of Parker's game! The Globulan player is displaying a masterful grasp of the strategies employed in this game, while the Asarkan is struggling a bit." Commentator 2: "Makes sense Mark, the Asarkans have no mouthes and use colorshifting as communication and have a crippling phobia of geometric shapes. The real surprise is the Rhodinian player, who is obviously from the Rhodinian Empire of Conquerors. Who'd have though that a player who brought a Disintegrator gun and full Power Armor to the table would be so good at diplomacy." Commentator 1: "Truer words have never been spoken Bob. Say, did you know Parker's game originally came from old Terra?" Commentator 2: "Really, I never knew that." Commentator 1: "Yeah, I miss that system. Too bad its gone, but at least we have some fragments left." Commentator 2 "Indeed Mark, Indeed... Whoa! Look at the play the Jo'hel just made! He just might take the win this cycle!"

[@trogdor8764]

Probably would have been easier (or at least less time-consuming) to make different shaped wood tokens, instead of trying to burn identifying marks. Just saw a whole section of branch into a square, rectangular (half-square) or triangular shape, and then together with the round ones you have shapes for 4 players once you slice them up.

[@mikitta47]

Glad to see you all back up and running! This was a cool episode!

[@gravity3268]

I couldn't remember the name for Mancala, thank you!

[@SpaceDodo]

Glad I could help!

[@micahphilson]

Ooh, you're giving other creators a spotlight like Tom Scott does, this is my favorite way of a channel taking a bit of a break!

[@theromanorder]

YESSSS ive been waiting for this great job

[@martinj.9528]

Fantastic! I checked the “down below” and didn’t see a link to the rules, is there somewhere they are shared that I missed? My kids are interested in trying it out with me 👍

[@samuelraytheweirdcontentgu8551]

Use paper or other objects to make picies then add and change the rules

[@Dirsmuutio]

The second I saw that saw being used like that I knew there would be blood

[@xanokothe]

The Royal Game of Ur is one of my favorite board games ever

[@quach8quach907]

I was born in 1970 in Vietnam. Didn't have money growing up. I made my first Chinese chess set with discarded Coke metal bottle caps, a blue and red pen, and a brown paper bag. I write on the white plastic inside of the caps.

[@ZXMFG]

Also a bit of a casual game designer here: An additional ruling I'd add to the game is that if you play with the 5-token bet ruling, the person rolling gets 2 dice. It only requires 1 six to win the pot, but at double the odds. To further expand this rule, you can only use 2 kinds of tokens and not all 4 kinds. This is then a risky big swing to capitalize on

[@SebRomu]

This video does a nice job of exploring the process of game design from a historical perspective, while also touching on the cultural and social importance of early games. As a writer, worldbuilder, and game designer myself, I have invented a handful of games for my fictional worlds and cultures. Making them actually playable, with both strategy and randomness is a challenge. Even seemingly simple rules can lead to very complex gameplay. Clever players can discover novel strategies, that make games even more interesting. And then there is the revision of rules over time, creating variants of old games, or new games entirely.

[@jaysonbunnell8097]

I'm a board game collector and afficionado. i LOVE these pieces! If I ever actually get into casting, that's the way to go.

[@FrauWNiemand]

Inventing games is lot of fun and I remember that we did this in primary school a lot when we were bored. I invented a board game in April 2020 by myself, based on corona. You can find the game to free download and all rules on my blogpage which is linked in the video (fully subtitled) I made about the rules. Feel free to try it out and modify it.

[@SD-oi9gr]

If you guys make it, we will watch it. I love the idea of not knowing what content is coming our way next. It’s exciting! Finding ways to pass the time is one of humans most interesting and little known topics we see.

[@Twitchi]

That red band on your thumbnail makes me think I have already watched the video

[@MCsCreations]

Really, really interesting! 😃 I'm going to make a 2x2" dice! 😂 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@Sonserf369]

Brilliant episode. This was really cool.

[@HarryHasAbigWilly]

whittling the pieces took effort, well done!

[@ClashBluelight]

burning marks into dice using a heated metal rod works way better than carving them. this also would have helped with burning the wooden tokens.

[@fireaza]

Seems appropriate the the guy who makes games as a hobby is a fan of GMTK! Also, is it just me, or does he looks almost like a clone of Andy? He name even starts with "A"!

[@saxazax]

one of the best channels on yt mancala can be played without a board, just dig small holes in the ground and fill with stones

[@quach8quach907]

I made Parcheesi with a brown paper bag, clay pieces and clay dice I dug up from my backyard. I use a round plastic Coke bottle cap to draw circles. I used my arithmetic skills to figure out how to even the spaces.

[@michelhv]

Is it a random occurrence that Adam and Andy are so similar in features, or are they tokens from opposing teams within a greater game? 🤔

[@holemajora598]

Very cool 👍🏽

[@joboyogi]

You could have gotten more complex with your tokens by putting something that would burn easy in a liquid form like alcohol, sugar, honey, etc. and marked them more precisely when it burned away. Clay masks would also do the trick, but the opposite way.

[@arnfinns4090]

Nice episode

[@asgharkheshtak8276]

Your videos are the best. I wach some of your videos,daily.

[@knuckle12356]

It's probably been said but I'm not coming through all the comments; when making six sided dice, it's standard practice to pair opposite sides to total 7. This 6/1,2/5,&3/4 should be on opposite sides. I thought I saw 3 and 4 adjacent to one another. Probably not the biggest deal. Certainly not to 'splain the concepts. But, today you learned...🤷‍♂️

[@SF-li9kh]

Loving the new guest segments

[@obieldenook1142]

I'm in the process of making my own game and this gives me hope that mine might become something. I like your game quite well. Your game should have a solitary version of it too for those away from family, whether it is hunting or gathering OR quarantined away from friends. :) This looks to be such a fun game.

[@DavidSmithsTardis]

Wow! It looks so good!

[@jordansorenson698]

Games can be fun. If you have friends

[@NavyVeteran1776]

Just from seeing the title pop up on my phone I immediately said “oh no Jumanji” 😂😂😂 cool video.

[@scottydu81]

I just love the idea that a channel about how to rebuild society would at some point have to rebuild his studio ❤

[@GlorifiedGremlin]

Adam is awesome, really good infront of a camera and well spoken

[@Magikarp_king]

It would be really cool to see you build the ancient Chinese seismograph. They used it to detect and predict small and large earthquakes.

[@theblackbaron4119]

Wasn't that a pot with a reverse pendulum on a flat surface with those little balls in the pot's dragon mouths that would shift and drop into the direction of the earthquake?

[@Magikarp_king]

@@theblackbaron4119 yeah that's exactly it. I learned a bit about it while in college and it was so cool.

[@me-iq1vb]

It's good to see you up and running again, good luck htme !

[@theFLCLguy]

No randomness in chess? The only time I beat an actual chess master was playing chaos chess with a huge bucket of luck. Basically you are trying to do things that don't hurt you but make no sense. Most the time you don't win but you survive long enough to make the game fun. To me winning is more about who's having the more fun. I used to get upset when losing on multiplayer games but now I just focus on having fun because that's the point.

[@SpaceDodo]

No non player generated randomness.

[@primeguy9855]

Haha what a coincidence i actually made my own boardgame from wood in an old viking style last week

[@hackjam3398]

The core idea might be medical supplies like bandages packing stitches things like that, also if you make parking you can actually use moss because during ww1 or 2 not sure which there was a study done showing that moss could be for packing wounds

[@Nagria2112]

@06:48 PLEASE never cut in the direction of your body. you will always cut yourself when you slip. and you will slip oooh he already did literally 4 sec later.... that was fast..... @06:52 @07:06 oh thats a nasty cut. NEVER CUT IN YOUR BODY DIRECTION. NEVER

[@KnightsWithoutATable]

These mechanics do sound fun.

[@paulaneary7877]

This was AWESOME! I really enjoyed seeing the process, the game does look so fun!

[@Kero7th]

I love htme. Watched through dr. Stone cuz of this channel. You deserve all the good you get in your lives.

[@petloveinjapan]

Looks like a cool game!

[@graywolfdracon]

This kinda seems like a more complex version of Left, Right, Center.

[@theblackbaron4119]

7:20 *BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!*

[@dittocopys]

metal pieces looked great

[@the_hanged_clown]

0:23 is it just me or does this just _scream_ Fred Z. Randall from Rocket Man? this is a joke right? I'm not sure imitating him is so wise...

[@margueritemitchell1829]

Hello from British Columbia,Canada 🇨🇦👋👍😎🌎♥️

[@Wico90YT]

Ancient Cones of Dunshire

[@htme]

It's about the cones!

[@reillywalker195]

Many older games used binary dice, which would be very easy to craft with ancient methods and make certain outcomes more likely than others. Something like the Australian game of Two-Up would be within the realm of possibility.

[@MrnmrsCCazares]

You make everything from wood, metal etc, but plastic doesn't break down very well I'm the environment. Given a nuclear situation or something that we are starting over, there will still be a lot of plastic everywhere. Maybe a special episode could be how to make plarn (plastic yarn) or how to make mats or pillows or rugs out of plastic bags or sheets of plastic. I've been doing it for years and I know your team could figure it out.

[@osseym9580]

i hate how youtube simply doesn't recomend nor notificate me when you post a new video, yes i ringed the bell

[@boofy5986]

Adam looks like Andy's twin

[@opesam]

Would clay/ceramic be a good/better material for the play pieces? Ofc carved wood would work too...

[@recklessroges]

9:33 Corporate wants you to tell me the difference between this two pictures.

[@brianstone6463]

It's kind of uncanny how similar you two look side-by-side. I'm an identical twin, myself, and even I don't think I look that similar to my brother. Lol. :D

[@minimax1392]

They probably carried it around for gambling as well. It’d be a great way to make money through scamming too

[@CameraEd1]

So um, what is this new game called?

[@staticmass6794]

Correct me if I'm wrong but have you guys unlocked metal files yet? I'm guessing metal casting bulk unlocks a lot of tools so maybe?

[@phil4193]

The singular of "dice" is "die", mister game enthusiast.

[@Orinslayer]

Okay, now it makes sense why every piece seems to be black or white, you just blackened them with a fire.

[@pandoratheclay]

Dude sawed his finger and kept going, not the best idea

[@SpaceDodo]

No vice invented yet

[@MissLilyputt]

He didn’t go on for hours. He just finished what he started and in the meantime his wound could bleed and flush out any debris that may have gotten into it and ultimately avoided infection.

[@pandoratheclay]

@@MissLilyputt Just saying that it’s probably better to stop what you’re doing and tend to that, so you can assure it doesn’t get infected

[@JGHFunRun]

Uno has more strategy than you might think, there's not much control but there is some Edit 7:06: GO INVENT BANDAGES

[@SpaceDodo]

Just bit of strategy. You can choose when to Play your special cards

[@JGHFunRun]

@@SpaceDodo true, it’s not much but it’s still not none

[@Koushakur]

7:32 Well no, it's a die. You're only holding one

[@swagaw3some546]

Can't wait to see how a game evolves looks at 5d chess With mutiverse and time travel I think thats to much evolving.

[@cyalknight]

A good rule to keep your thumb, is always cut away from yourself. The way he was sawing the dice at 6:48, with that precise saw placement and hand below was not safe. When starting a cut with a saw, they are not very precise. Tools of many types are dangerous. When working with any thing from screwdrivers to saws and knifes I expect about one minor injury a day. Learn from the mistakes and try to be more careful the next time.

[@acemcplane]

Someone send this guy a pair of work gloves. Yikes!

[@SpaceDodo]

Not invented yet!

[@jordancasanova8517]

so cool! but how did the blood not demonetize the video?

[@magnusmathias4548]

Keep Up the good Work😁👍🏼

[@nicholascandra8415]

7:08 BLOOD

[@LevidelValle]

Called a chisel they had them in the iron age

[@dandresco]

Hola buen video saludos desde Ecuador for who ever understands

[@arnfinns4090]

The KZbin translate comment option

[@wolbern5605]

Dude just casually ignored the masses of blood lol

[@zintosion]

That saw segment is kinda expected.

[@andyvue2418]

Wow great and can you make an different type of atlas or the spear thrower.

[@BlackDragonWitheHawk]

could maybe be better if you used a D20 or multiple dice

[@theblackbaron4119]

Well you can control the game in Uno. You just need a tad of deviousness and know how to target another player without getting shoveled full of cards yourself :)) Uno the ACTUAL modern day war game at the family table.

[@GevBG]

4:19 סביבוןןןןן

[@moukidelmar]

Not for nothing they used to have a 20 sided dice in ancient rome, and since you already have d6s and d4s... you should run an ancient D&D one shot. PM me, I'd be happy to DM it