Choose Your Own Bloody Adventure

In our game, you go around the board and pick up cards, and collect “sanity points”. To move around the board, you roll a dice. On certain spaces, you get to pick up a card. The cards have different choices that you can make that connect to the play. Once you read the card and make a decision, the player flips it over and receives/ gets sanity points taken away based on their answer. When the cards run out, the game ends. Whoever has the most sanity points wins the game.

In Macbeth, Macbeth, King of Scotland, turns from mostly normal to totally insane. He loses his sanity based on choices he makes in the play. For example, when he decides to murder the original King to appease his hunger for power, he set himself up for insanity. As he continues being greedy and committing murders, he goes further and further into losing his mind. In our game, this is represented by gathering and losing sanity points. If the player loses sanity points, they are making the decisions Macbeth would make, causing him to lose his sanity.

All of our cards connect to some part of the play. For example, this card, “Would you kill someone to rise to power, or would you let fate take its turn?” connects to when Macbeth and his wife were planning to murder the King. Throughout the play, Macbeth questions whether to let his fate play out, or meddle in it (by killing Duncan, in this instance). Another card, “Would you kill your enemy's family to advance in power, or would you find another way?” goes back to the near end of the play, when Macbeth killed his adversary’s family to gain power. At this point, whatever Macbeth thought, was acted upon without him thinking. He did not have enough patience or sanity to find another way to advance. One more card, “Would you let your partner push you into doing something crazy, or would you have your own ideas?” refers to the relationship between Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth let Lady Macbeth push him into doing deranged acts, like murdering. This was another first step of him losing his sanity.

We hope you enjoy our board game! Scroll down for pictures/ a video of our game! :)

By Julia and Margie