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Introduction In this blog post, I will be designing a game concept for a first-person 3D game, based on a speaker’s session from the Communications and Life Skills Summit. I will then describe the player objective and the rules for the game. Game Prototype A prototype is the creation of a working model of an idea that allows the creator to test its feasibility and make improvements to it (Fullerton). These are usually very sketch-like and simple. This is because the purpose of the prototype is to allow the game designer to focus in on a small set of the game’s mechanics/features and see how they should function (Fullerton). Since there are so many elements in a typical game, if the designer tries to design the entire game at once, it will become confusing and overwhelming. I signed up for Marc Randolph’s lecture, The Power of the Proper Introduction. For my game prototype, I designed a level where the player is in a formal business dinner party. The gameplay will be focused mai...

Intro In this blog post, I will describe the difference between loopholes vs features in games, and explain an example of each. Then I will think of a way for a player to subvert the rules of my card game, and discuss whether or not this would take away from my game’s experience, or add to it. I will also compare and contrast a symmetrical vs asymmetrical game, and apply it to my card game. Loopholes vs Feature A loophole is a flaw in the system that users can exploit to gain and unfair or unintended advantage (Fullerton). It is different from gaining a simple “advantage” in a system; a true loophole gives a player agency for a type of play that ruins the experience for all players. If an unintended loophole exists in a game, it cannot be considered complete. An example of a loophole occurred for League of Legends, around a year ago. In LoL, there are 5 different roles, and each player had a single rank to showcase, no matter which role they mained. However, in Season 9 of Lo...

Introduction In this blog post, I showcase our card game’s elements and QA questions for our in-class playtesting session. I also explain my hopes and expectations of the playtest. Card Game Elements Playtesting Questions Do you play any other card games? If so, which ones do you play? How difficult was the game to learn? Did the game feel fair? Was there anything that was unbalanced? What do you think about the game overall? If you could change 1 thing about the game, what would you change? What I Hope to Discover My board game group discovered many issues while playtesting Get Off My Island!, and it improved drastically after we tweaked the game mechanics over and over. None of it would have been possible if we didn’t playtest. I hope that we can do the same for our card game’s playtest sessions, as cleaning up the mechanics made the gameplay much more fun. To do this, we have to observe how the playtesters play with little to no explanation of the game. If we tell the players ...

  Introduction     Hey all! In this very short blog post, I will just be showcasing my card game pitch, which I will be presenting in class.