The Monopoly board game is pretty iconic and commonplace at this point, but I gave it a reworking for DU that is coming along. I haven’t made changes to the board since last year, but I’ve been readying it for a board game exhibition that has apparently been cancelled. Oh well…the work goes on.

I met with Ryan Johnston, the campus energy manager at DU, on Friday to get accurate historical power usage data for all of the buildings on my game board (which you can see below). The next steps are redefining the rules, creating some cards and play pieces, and printing out a copy to begin playtesting. I am not sure what the appropriate venue is for this project when it’s done, but that’s partially what I’m in the eMAD program to learn. My hope for the game is that it plays like a reverse Monopoly in which players manage their buildings and gain ground in the game by conserving more power (and thus have more “money” to spend).