Playing with old game concepts

Recently I’ve been playing with old games concepts. Games like tic-tac-toe or checkers. I’m an academic teacher and do classes about game design. So I put those two concepts in front of my class and forced their brains into creative mode. And you know what? I was really surprised what you can get from such an old and simple concepts. Actually, I really fall in love with our checkers remake. You add up bonuses, power-ups, new types of pawns, new grounds… and you end up with new cool strategy game. I’ll have to do this one in 2007.