Creating a Pog/Tazo game?

As you get into prototypes for this, I'd highly recommend playing games like Catacombs & Castles and any of the "Flick 'Em" games. You may get some good ideas.

You could do something similar to hive. Each turn players can attach a pog into the group of pogs or activate a pogs ability.
Not really sure what the goal would be. As for the goal of the game well I'm not really certain what that could be. Here are some ideas: Capture pogs and have the most pogs at the end. Have most points where points are the results of some created patterns or patterns during your turn. Solo game where at the end of the game group that has meets like three unique characteristics.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2655/hive

Hey there, I'm new to the board and the previous poster pointed me in this direction. Here's my thoughts.

1. Have you considered using a 3d shape for the pogs? The cardboard disks are great and all, but there's a lot more you can do with, say, a d6 or d12.

2. I think the idea of changing up the usual POG gameplay is good. Considering you're concerned with material costs, it probably wouldn't be that hard to add something like an adjustable ramp, though that may be a little harder to put together than a regular token. Another idea is just to have more than one tower - using a 3D shape would definitely help with that, as you'd have fewer pieces necessary to create an actual tower. You could also have one or more pog pyramids, wherein you have to choose carefully which part of the base you want to launch at, and build your own pyramid to keep your opponent from getting all the points.

I'm not saying that - I was just invited to give some input. You mentioned the issue with a stack of pogs not necessarily tipping over readily with short stacks, and you had mused about making them different shaped, which is why I mentioned using something other than a piece of cardboard. You could still do exactly what you said in your previous post using different shapes.

As for my second suggestion, I was sort of just skimming the thread and reading everyone's ideas, so I apologize that I didn't put together your latest idea before commenting. I'm having a bit of trouble doing so now - Particularly, how does the playing of pogs as "cards" relate to the mechanic of pog towers? Are you using played cards to build your tower? Are you using them to do things to your opponent's tower to score points? Is there a tower for each player, or just one? You clearly still have the towers involved, I just don't know how.

I'm not sure I could say if your current idea has any positive or negative traits yet - It's interesting in a sort of "I wonder what that could turn into" sort of way, but I'd need a more rigorous description of the flow of the game to give any actual input. I was using the original pog game as a reference because I found your own description a little scattered and incomplete. I thought you were just trying to brainstorm, so I was throwing my two cents in to give you more idea fodder.

The ideas of stacking got me thinking; what if the pogs have point and/or value as you said; these are used to tell the players where they can place their next pog. Players draw pogs at random from their pile/bag/etc., and then play it.

To increase the balancing play; the game is packaged in a plastic tube, which also acts as the "game board." Players begin stacking on top of the tube, and the object is to "grow" the pogs outward, like a tree. This means pogs aren't stacked directly on top, but off-center. The way the pogs are designed can help direct this, such as with printed lines or blocks of color which players must line up while stacking. The "tree" gets more and more precarious as the game goes on, until it eventually falls.

A theme for this could be Japanese cherry blossoms (Sakura) if you want to get "artsy;" pogs have different numbers of blossoms which direct the game, until the blossoms fall.

True a Cherry Blossom theme is a far ways from Jedite's original thought...but that's what is so great about BGDF! We each take a seed idea our own way, for the designer to find what inspires them the most and gets them to making, playing and testing! I hope Jedite finds some such seeds useful in these responses...

I think this is a fantastic designer's challenge; using pogs as the core component. So may cool ideas in this thread like rolling, stacking, throwing, slamming...a game could use one or all of these mechanisms to create something truly new, yet nostalgic!

Check out this Kickstarter... They don't use POGS but it is VERY TACTICAL.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/246157170/rise-of-the-exiled-a-fant...

When I watched the video, I immediately thought about your POG game. Of course you can use this for some inspiration, in the event that you might be wondering what to do with that game.

Cheers!

Note: I knew this was a BGDF link... The posted their KS campaign ad in the "Press & Announcements"... It reminded me a bit like the video link I sent to you (Fleets at Battle). It's a little different but you can also see some similarities.