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I'm working on prototyping a new game and was wondering if i could get some imput on some symbols i am
If you were going to guess, what word would you say each symbol was to represent? It's for a kind of half tile-laying half word-gameish thing so I'd really rather not use actual words, but they need to have somewhat consistent interpretations. Hopefully not too consistent though.
This is version 2 of the symbols:
Version 1 can be found here: http://i.imgur.com/NmMfW.png
Edit: You can find the results of the first round of IDing and a bunch of notes on the changes and replies and other junk in this post.
Edit 2: Sorry i forgot to do this, but i started a thread for the game that these symbols are for here.
Thanks.
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Andrew Tullsen
United States
Tigard
Oregon
Custom Prototypes, Game Parts, Print & Play Games, Short Runs, POD
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A1 Person
A2 Question
A3 BoxStar ?
A4 Minus
B1 Card
B2 Thumbs Up
B3 StarBox ?
B4 Equals
C1 Numbers
C2 Thumbs Down
C3 Not Available
C4 Top ?
D1 Plus
D2 Ticket
D3 Go / Forward
D4 Bottom
E1 Middle
E2 Add
E3 Take
E4 Trash
These are just my first thoughts on seeing each image, not really comparing them to the other images.
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Sturv Tafvherd
United States
North Carolina
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cwarts wrote: It's for a kind of half tile-laying half word-gameish thing
In "context" of the hints you've given
A1 : person / player
A2 : choose
A3 : tile to the left of
A4 : take-away (subtract)
B1 : a group
B2 : good
B3 : tile to the right of
B4 : equals
C1 : digits
C2 : bad
C3 : negate
C4 : tile under of
D1 : add
D2 : offer a tile
D3 : move a tile
D4 : tile over of
E1 : take (a card)
E2 : place (a card)
E3 : draw (a card)
E4 : discard
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Chris Ferejohn
United States
San Francisco
California
Pitying fools as hard as I can...
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Well context matters (what is this game about?), but knowing nothing else than "it's a board game"
1A - Place worker here.
1B - Place card here.
1C - Pick a number (?)
1D - Plus (not sure plus what)
1E - Choose one card from those available.
2A - Draw a random card/event.
2B - Vote for what is proposed.
2C - Vote against what is proposed.
2D - Auction something to/buy something from another player.
2E - Place a card from your hand/board into the common pool.
3A/3B/4C/4D - Get VPs for whatever is left/right/above/below this tile.
3C - You can't put anything here.
3D - Slide cards to the right.
3E - Shuffle these cards and draw one at random.
4A - Minus (?)
4B - Equals
4E - Throw this away.
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A
1- Person/player
2- Random
3- No idea(apart from Block then Star.I assume these are relative positions of 2 objects)
4- Minus/Subtract
B
1- Board/Playing area
2- Good/Correct
3- No idea(see A3)
3- Equals/ Equal to
C
1- Number input
2- Bad/Incorrect
3- Do not do
4- No idea (see A3)
D
1- Plus/Add
2- Opponent?
3- Give a card
4- See A3
E
1- Take a tile
2- Place a tile
3- Draw a card
4- Discard/Trash
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Paul Clarke
United Kingdom
Southampton
Hampshire
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Player or Worker token
Random/Unknown
Gibberish
Minus
Card
Is a good idea
Gibberish
Is equal to
Numbers
Is a bad idea
Not permitted
Gibberish
Plus
Middle finger (censored)
Fire Exit
Gibberish
Gibberish
Gibberish
Draw a card
Keep Britain Tidy
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Jayson Stevens
Canada
Surrey
British Columbia
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A1 Person
A2 Question, Clue, Query
A3 No idea*
A4 Minus
B1 Card, One Card
B2 Yes, Correct, Affirmative, PASS/SUCCESS
B3 No idea*
B4 Equals
C1 Numbers, any number
C2 No, Wrong, Negative, FAILURE
C3 Forbidden, Failure, Cancel
C4 No idea*
D1 Plus, Add, Medical, Healing, First aid
D2 Bartender, give me another beer
D3 Move item to the right
D4 No idea*
E1 Take card from table
E2 Place card on table
E3 In theory, it looks like draw a card. In practice, it will be too small to make out.
E4 Trash, discard
* No idea may make perfect and obvious sense in the context of the game, but right now, it's all WTF
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D2: "I'll have sex on this counter with you for a free board game."*
*I'm sorry, it just popped into my brain and I could not resist. May the Gods of Good Taste forgive me.
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James Woodall
United States
Houston
Texas
Look like a guy with a plan?
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A1 Player
C3 Not allowed
E4 Trash
C4 Nothing
A2 Question
D1 Add
E3 Take Random
D3 Pass card to the right
A3 Nothing
B4 Equals
E2 Place Middle
C1 Nothing
A4 Subtract
B3 Nothing
E1 Take Middle
C2 No
B1 Card
D4 Nothing
B2 Yes
D2 For my next trick!
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Most have no meaning to me at all, and those that do may not be what you are looking for - B2, for example, is to me the gesture given at an amphitheatre to slaughter a defeated gladiator, and A2 is the sign of Ka Faraq Gatri, also called The Oncoming Storm...
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Bobby Ramsey
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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A1: A player
A2: Ask a question
A3: Place a cube then a card ( B1 looks like a card, and the stars
are the symbol on them )
A4: one
B1: Card
B2: "This Guy!"
B3: Place a card and then a cube ( I hope it won't be easy to
confuse this with A3 )
B4: equals
C1: arrange into some order
C2: voting against
C3: I ain't afraid of no ghost
C4: Place a card atop a cube
D1: add something
D2: "I'll be careful." "You'll be dead!"
D3: Slide everything to the right
D4: Place a cube atop a card
E1: Remove a tile from the board
E2: Add a tile to the board
E3: Draw a card
E4: Trash your hand?
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King Ævil
South Euclid
Ohio
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A1: This large rock is the only thing preventing the volcano from erupting!
A2: Doughnuts allowed on this parking lot
A3: Star-bellied Sneeches must enter the Star-Off machine
A4: No entry (Europe)
B1: Electrons repel one another
B2: Good job!
B3: The Star-Off Machine is currently broken
B4: Human Rights Campaign
C1: I'm old enough to remember when Touch-Tone phones were really cool
C2: Prepare to be fed to the lions
C3: No circles allowed
C4: A star giving a soapbox speech
D1: Welcome to Switzerland
D2: You must watch Monty Python's Customs Sketch
D3: Boxes go this way, please
D4: This block will hurt if it falls on your head
E1: Choose the card with the three spots
E2: Reject the card with the three spots
E3: Yes, I'd love to read a Jack Chick tract right now...
E4: ...and add it to my collection
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Garth Palmer
United States
Roseburg
OR
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B2 means the defeated gladiator may live. C2 means either slit his throat or feed him to the lions. Are you making a gladiator game?
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Markus Hagenauer
Germany
Surheim
Germany
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A1 person / pawn
A2 question / of your choice
A3 resource + victroy point
A4 minus
B1 card
B2 yes
B3 victory point + resource
B4 equals
C1 numbers
C2 yes
C3 not allowed / end of ..
C4 resource + victroy point
D1 plus
D2 show card(s)
D3 give / move card
D4 resource + victroy point
E1 remove card
E2 add card
E3 draw
E4 discard
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Chris
England
Harrow
London
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JasonJ0 wrote: and A2 is the sign of Ka Faraq Gatri, also called The Oncoming Storm...
Didn't the symbol left by the Bringer of Darkness not have a downward section, just a loop open to the left?
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Jake Staines
United Kingdom
Grantham
Lincolnshire
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A1 - person / player
A2 - question / wildcard
A3 - thing to the right (left?)
A4 - remove / less than
B1 - a card
B2 - yes / good
B3 - thing to the left (right?)
B4 - equal to
C1 - numbers / numeric
C2 - no / bad
C3 - disallowed / forbidden
C4 - thing above (below?)
D1 - add / more than
D2 - show a thing to another player / buy a thing
D3 - move a thing / pass play / to the right of a thing
D4 - thing below (above?)
E1 - take a thing from the table
E2 - put a thing on the table
E3 - draw a thing from the deck
E4 - discard / throw away / point at a ridiculous late-sixties stool
The four that I interpreted as "thing to the left/right/above/below" are the ones I had more trouble with - I guess that the block represents the current thing and the star is the thing to select/consider/whatever, but I wouldn't bet on it not being the other way around. It could also be a "mnove to the " with the star being the starting position!
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Johan Haglert
Sweden
Örebro
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Obviously I should had read top to bottom.
A1) You / player
A2) If / option
A3) -
A4) You can't / not possible
B1) Card?
B2) If 'yes'
B3) Left of A3 option? 
B4) then or if equal
C1) For all numbers
C2) If 'no'
C3) You can't / (You can't unless?)
C4) See all other such symbols (on top of)
D1) Add or heal / health
D2) Deal one card / get one card from dealer
D3) Move card to the right
D4) See ...
E1) Take middle card
E2) Leave a card
E3) Draw one card
E4) Discard or at discard.
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Chris C wrote: JasonJ0 wrote: and A2 is the sign of Ka Faraq Gatri, also called The Oncoming Storm... Didn't the symbol left by the Bringer of Darkness not have a downward section, just a loop open to the left?
One calling card had no downstroke, just the dot, but at other times the full mark is used. Such as on the umbrella.
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A1 - Person
A2 - Question / random
A3 - Box star
A4 - Minus
B1 - Card
B2 - Good / Success / Approval
B3 - Star box
B4 - Equals
C1 - Keypad / Numbers
C2 - Bad / Failure / Disapproval
C3 - Forbidden / Cancelled
C4 - Star on box
D1 - Plus
D2 - Purchase / Shop (noun)
D3 - Exit
D4 - Box on star
E1 - Take random (or any) card of value 3
E2 - Put back random (or any) card of value 3
E3 - Take a random card
E4 - Put (something) in the bin / discard a card
I would suggest that all you need is for all the symbols to make sense and be memorable once the rulebook has explained them.
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Herc du Preez
South Africa
Cape Town
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A
1 Ink stamp
2 Question
3 Follow a star
4 No entry
B
1 put your stars in each corner
2 my thumb hurts
3 star follows you
4 Authorised Entry only
C
1 Play Sudoku now
2 Strange spray gun
3 Burger time.
4 Put a star on your head.
D
1 Call Ambulance
2 Is this your order sir?
3 Danger: Arrow firing block.
4 You on a star.
E
1,2 (1 and 2 repeatedly) How to be a DJ.
3 Use mind powers.
4 Point at pot (laughing optional)
Symbols meanings are contextual and subjective.
Pros: Makes game look tidier and is language friendly.
Cons: Too many glyphs is intimidating to a new player and the learning curve for the game also becomes steeper (Race for the Galaxy anyone?).
I don't think it's a good idea to have millions of hieroglyphics for player actions but I might just be funny that way. 
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James Miscavish
United States
St. Joseph
Missouri
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cwarts wrote: I'm working on prototyping a new game and was wondering if i could get some imput on some symbols i am using. If you were going to guess, what word would you say each symbol was to represent? It's for a kind of half tile-laying half word-gameish thing so I'd really rather not use actual words, but they need to have somewhat consistent interpretations. Hopefully not too consistent though. Thanks.
A1 = Player/person
A2 = Question
A3 = Place star next to box
A4 = Subtract
B1 = Card
B2 = Good job!
B3 = Place box next to star
B4 = Equals
C1 = Keypad
C2 = Poor job!
C3 = Can't place that here...
C4 = Place star above box
D1 = Add
D2 = Pass card
D3 = Slide tile right
D4 = Place box above star
E1 = Take middle card
E2 = Place card in the middle
E3 = Draw a card
E4 = Throw something away
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Robin Goodall
United Kingdom
Cambridge
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A1: A player
A2: Random
A3: Play to right of Box
A4: No entry (possibly a UK thing), or Minus
B1: A card
B2: Yes
B3: Play to left of Box
B4: Equal
C1: Any number from 1 to 9
C2: No (watchout for rotation becoming B2)
C3: Forbidden
C4: Play above Box
D1: Add or First Aid
D2: Buy
D3: Move right or Emergency Exit
D4: Play below Box
E1: Take a card
E2: Place a card
E3: Draw a card
E4: Trash or Keep Britain Tidy
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Robin Goodall
United Kingdom
Cambridge
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Or maybe,
D2: Shit! My lightsaber's batteries have run out again! Oh, now you've chopped my legs off!
Or (sorry),
D2: I don't think my ruler is long enough to measure that, my dear.
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David Sharrock
United Kingdom
London
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cwarts wrote:
From Top-Left, working left to right then top to bottom:
Person
Query/Mystery
Meaningless
Subtract/Lose points/something
Card
Vote Up/Approve
Meaningless
Equals
Is a Non-zero Number
Vote Down/Decline
Forbidden
Meaningless
Add/increase points/something
Take a seat, the doctor will see you soon
Exit/Pass card this way
Meaningless
Take the "3" card
Place the "3" card
Take a standing card or your choice
Give up, this game isn't for you ( )
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Robin Goodall
United Kingdom
Cambridge
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Sorry, haven't too much fun with this:
E3: Choose one from a stack of cards with unintelligible symbols on them
E4: Arrgh, my wristwatch is being pulled by this giant magnet
E4: Take the anvil for a walk
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Posted Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:15 am
