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Option 1:
This week we worked on our Game Design 1 project, the Card Game! Honestly, for me this was a little harder to accomplish than I’d like it to be. I originally had an idea where I wouldn’t use the cards in their traditional sense and make a physical card building tower game since I used to do that a lot as a kid. But I unfortunately couldn’t figure out a way to be competitive and win so I did the next best thing!
Mathematics was always my boon, it always came so easy for me and I think that’s partly because I didn’t learn basic math with numbers but with food like M&Ms. Though cards do have numbers, they also have colors and little symbols you can physically count in case you don’t know the number off the top of your head. I also thought it’d be good to add a way to subtract points from your score, subtraction is just addition but backwards though I know a lot of people struggle with it. Hopefully having to subtract ones and fives will help people relax a little more when it comes to subtraction, get used to thinking WITH subtractions instead of against.
I also found this game to be fun for those that do know basic math pretty easily, it becomes a fun counting game and you could potentially “screw” over your opponent by them accidentally picking the Joker card from your deck. Overall, I tried to think of an easy game that could teach kids and stimulate them while still entertaining the competitive streak of adults.
Option 2:
I finally FINALLY got Among Us this week (even though it’s only 5 dollars, I just have social anxiety). i absolutely adore the game, it reminds me a lot of Werewolf/Mafia/Witch-hunt or whatever other version of finding the “Impostor” among us is. I do love those kinds games and it really gets the brain working! It makes any player feel like their own brand of detective solving murder cases where everyone is ready to lie to you. Or alternatively if you happen to get the “Impostor” role, you can sabotage or kill your other crewmates.
Basically, the goal of the game tends to be outsmarting your fellow player, whether it be doing some great detective work or great ...murder work? Even though a lot of people tend to think finding out who’s lying is the best way to play, I’ve find that who is telling the truth to be the easiest way to go about it. If you know who’s telling the truth you will never have to worry about them lying for that round. Besides that though, this game really does make you anxious, testing how well you work under pressure and how well you can work with others. A great run is now ejecting any of your fellow crewmates but you can still win by doing so. Luckily, a crewmate who’s died can still play and help complete tasks so i think a lot of team work is required to make the game really fun. But considering it’s an online only game it is sometimes hard to get decent players.