Million Dollar Script – from prototype to game

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Million Dollar Script, our team-based party game, is far different from its’ prototype! Check out the photos below to see what’s changed:

There were 3 versions of the game, and they had one thing in common – time limit. ⏳ On one hand Million Dollar Script is a party game about telling stories, but on the other hand – what we found out in playtesting – sometimes you must give players some limits, otherwise, they will never stop talking about their brilliant script idea!

Million Dollar Script was submitted to Portal Games for the first time around 2015. It was called Scenario and we really liked it, but we had to reject it, as we were focused on heavy games like Cry Havoc and First Martians back then. After few years, Daniel Stamm, designer of the game reached out to us again with a brand new version of the game, shorter, easier to grasp and still fun to play. This time we said yes and a few months later we were able to finish developing and preparing it for production.

Million Dollar Script is a party game about pitching movie ideas. It is silly fun and as you can see, both in the final version of the game (Sound effects) and in the prototype version (The marketing department would like to see…) we inspire players and surprise them with many cards that put a twist in the movie pitch and make it funny.

In the first prototype the producer of the movie had a dedicated sheet which he filled with his crazy requests about the movie and then was presenting to players. In the final version we went for set of pre-constructed cards, but obviously after a few games players will be welcome to come with their own ideas!

As you can see on the photo, the Character card in the final game is pretty close to the one from the prototype! Each character consist of 3 parts that describe him and will inspire players to come with a funny movie idea!



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