• Simple to understand rules
• Requires little equipment
• Trains limb coordination
• Easily extensible to multiplayer
• Clear win state
• Gamifies natural hopping movement
• Low skill entry barrier
• Immediate feedback on game state

1. Not friendly those with physical disabilities
2. Can become boring due to its simple rule set
3. Primary mechanic is jumps
4. A static game space
5. Minimalist Aesthetics
6. Has no story
7. Does not incorporate elements of modern technology
8. Tests the body but not the mind e.g recall of facts, events etc.

1. Blindfolded
2. With someone on your back while playing
3. Jumping only when music is playing
4. During a handstand
5. On a climbing wall
6. With multiple tokens
7. Whilst singing
8. Where you start with no squares and draw one turn by turn
9. Three legged
10. On stairs
11. Backwards
12. Eating icecream
13. With two people at once
14. With only one square
15. On a board with tiles that turn in a pool
16. Played using your fingers
17. On a trampoline
18. Interplanetary
19. Over Skype in different countries
20. Where you cant jump in squares based on a coloured dice, or coin?
21. Story based, and where marker was thrown player has to participate in a story event and if they lose they dont get to score a point by playing a round of hopscotch
22. Edible, where a player can eat one square but has to make another one with provided food
23. Where the game space drawn from star constellations
24. Meta – smaller hopscotch games feed in a larger one. Two people play against each other in each mini game, and the winner moves forward on one square on the board till they reach the meta game marker and return as in a normal game
25. Color coded special square events which if a person steps in they have to do like shout a word, if they fail they have to go back to the start
26. Place the marker not by a throw but by a dice roll
27. People are put into teams based on costumes
28. The person has to do a dance move when spinning round at the end
29. The person has to do karate punches on each jump
30. Throw the marker again when it is picked up
31. Two people have to mirror each other on different games
32. It is attached to another game that based on your speed gives you more points/ progresses more in the level
33. In VR with rivers of lava
34. Where each item rotates round and one has to jump from square to square
35. One player throws the marker and stops at that position. Then throws the marker forward again. The next player jumps to the position of the last player who jumps to the next place the marker is now at. The process continues until the marker has been returns to the beginning.
36. Competitive, two games of hopscotch, the marker can be thrown onto another hopscotch game to make it harder for them to complete the round
37. On a dart board. Objective is to hit the center of squares avoiding the one other player threw the marker dart at.
38. Three legged – two people tied together play
39. Relay, where the marker has to passed from game to game.
40. Players stand in Hopscotch squares and pass the marker to other players to complete the game.
41. Where the panels light up and one must jump only on lit panels
42. On the moon
43. On a single wheel cycle
44. With sword fighting battle rounds per block, losing sends you back to the start
45. Complete Hopscotch in a tiger cage before the tiger is let loose in it
46. With a slide at the end of the game
47. There are two markers and those are the only ones that can be jumped in
48. There are markers on every square and winning is jumping and picking up as many as possible in a given time.
49. One person is continuously jumping and another person throws a marker and tries to have the player jumping fall on that marker.
50. On a keyboard one has to press the 1-9 keys in the same pattern, and avoid the marker square set by the computer.

Based on number 25, 39 and 48

1. Picto Hopscotch – Hopscotch is played in the traditional American school yard manner except for one difference. Each row has a picture associated with it. When the player jumps on any square of the row they must shout out the picture. If they do not the player has to go back to the beginning again.
2. Relay Hopscotch – Two hopscotch play spaces are set up. One person from each hopscotch space begins playing, and completes a game and gives the marker to an awaiting second player who plays a game of Hopscotch. First team to complete both hopscotch games win.
3. Hopscotch Toss – Two teams play Hopscotch competitively. Both teams have a jumper, and catcher. The jumper plays hopscotch and collects the markers and throws them to the catcher. The team with all the markers in the catchers hand and jumper at the end win.

The first iteration of gameplay showed me various areas that needed more detail and consideration. Useful moments that occurring during my playtests were:

• Instructions should be short and concise otherwise they bore playtesters. So I should better prepare my rule for fast and easy digestion.
• Great design moments had laughs or confusion which immediately drew my attention to areas of the game I needed to work on.
• Playing the game exposed rules that I needed to clarify such as how to handle drops, fumbles of the jumper, missed throws.

Bad

• I did not consider adding the throw to the timed phase of the game. Doing so might add tension to that part of the game.
• The catcher reported wanting to do more.
• I had only one game setup at a time, it would have been more enjoyable to have both games occurring simultaneously.

Good

• Players clearly enjoyed throwing markers and catching them.
• The game was picked up very quickly due to its rule set

With the second iteration I intend to adjust the rule set to include new cases for when the jumper and catcher fumbles.

1. The jumper throw phase is included in timing.
2. If the marker is thrown out of boundaries it is placed on the first Hopscotch square.
3. If the catcher drops the marker the jumper stops moving until the catcher picks up the marker and returns to the safe zone.

Playtested with the above changes had the following effects:

1. Heightened the tension during the beginning of the game.
2. Made jumpers more careful with their throw. They would take safer shots, but those who successfully made riskier shots got greater rewards.
3. Heightened the tension during drops, particularly on the catcher as they scrambled to get the marker..

Playtesters reported having an enjoyable more fluid experience. They also made two suggestions:

1. The experience be ‘circular’. When the jumper reaches the catcher who has three markers in hand, the jumper turns round and continues their Hopscotch game (without the markers) instead of ending the game. On reaching the beginning of the Hopscotch board the Catcher now switches roles and becomes the Jumper, and the game continues.
2. The jumper returns to the start if the catcher drops the marker.