Author: BraydenBauer

Posted on

Week 3

Day in your shoes: Players live a day in the life of an other player. Goal is to feel empathetic for other player.

Silent Conversations: Players communicate through body language. Game revolves around a social challenge.

Helping Hand: Help the player throughout their day. Goal is to show kindness.

Perspective Shift: Players must solve problem based on the certain character. Game highlights the point of viewing multiple viewpoints.

Letter to a Friend: Gift a letter to any of your friends. Game shows how human show empathy and emotional connection.

Posted on

Week 2

Debate Simulator: Game that requires you to persuade the npc on changing their opinions for the election.

Empathy Experience: Tell life stories and get a different reaction from other people. Goal is to change players perspective on stories.

Mind Benda: A game that challenges their understanding of reality. Requires players to think outside normal patterns.

Identity Crisis: Player can shapeshift into different forms, goal is to find out why the player transformed into that shape.

Echoes: Normal story game but as the game goes on the choices you made keep stacking and stacking ubtil the game is almost unbeatable

Posted on

5 Games without end

Brayden, Carson, Tori, Alana

Nightclub Simulator

Whenever you tap, your character dances to the beat. Doing so long enough will reward you with a drink to continue dancing.

Paper Shredder Simulator

The player taps the screen in order to put paper into the paper shredder. Once the bin is filled you can sell the scrap paper to purchase a bigger bin or fancier paper to shred  

Song Creator

User will tap an instrument of their choice to play to the audience. You gain money by getting tips and use that to buy other instruments that pay out more. You can invite your friends to combine the instruments together to make a band that results in a higher payout.

Happy Cat

You tap to feed the cat lasagna until the cat pops. You get money for each cat popped. New cats can eat more and earns more money per click  

Counting Up

The  player clicks their screen, which starts as a blank white with a black “0”. For each time they click, the number goes up in value by one. The game will save your number if you close it, and will continue to go up one number for each singular click you give it. There is no limit to how many times you can click. 

9-5

You are an assembly line worker at a factory. You must work your shift in real time (from 9-5) doing a single monotonous task. The player can choose what point of the assembly process they want to work that day, but are stuck to the position they choose once selected. 

Water Bucket Simulator

You tap the screen for a drop of water to fall into a bucket. Once you fill the bucket up you get a new one and do it again.

Posted on

Sorry I forgot to post this but this is our thoughts we wrote down for the Skater Skirmish Prototypes 1-4

The rules and mechanics we really did not have to change at all because it was perfect. The only thing we decided to change was the board itself. We obviously had a few ideas that we could incorporate but it made the game a little bit too complicated. The biggest debate was to either make the player have attempts or a time base system to do their tricks each turn. The time one gave way to many chances to do it, while the attempts forced the game to be more competitive. We did however decide to remove a rule which I don’t I don’t remember the name of. The point of it is that if you successfully complete a trick you can continue to go up the ladder until you complete a difficulty card from every color. The player then gets bonus points from doing it. We had to remove it because an experienced player could win the game within one round. Regardless I’m happy how everything turned out though.

Posted on

My best game

I would have loved to continue with my game because it was fun and enjoyable to make. The only problem though is that there were more cons than pros. Regardless of it being fun, my friends and family found way too many loopholes throughout the game. Unfortunately decided to scrap the game and go a different route for my final. Me and my group mates decided to make a finger board game that involves a point system for completing tricks. I honestly thought it was a very unique idea that I have not seen before. We all agreed immediately that we would do this for our final. It turned out great in my opinion. We want to potentially make a sequel somehow next semester maybe regarding certain signature tricks that involve specific skaters. Big one being Tony Hawk obviously. I loved the game I made but this game was by far the best one for all of us.

Posted on

Gallery Grippers

I like that you have the option to play in a group or solo. Only heist game I’ve seen out in general that I actually like. I’ve seen games like this at stores and it just doesn’t look interesting. However in this case I feel like it is done very well and again I like that you can play it solo as well. Some of the other games I’ve seen or played you can’t get strikes or caught. In this case you can. You can get caught and lose your money. I’m excited to see how the final board will turn out after laser cutting it. 

Posted on

Manor of the Dammed

I think it’s really cool that every game is different, with the time and building the board itself. I think it’s really thought out and put together very well. Not sure why but it makes me think of D and D a little bit, which is not a bad thing. 

Posted on

Toss Salad

I like the idea of using action cards to get the ingredients to make a salad. I agree though with the action cards, I feel like people mainly focused on the chaos versus the actual point of the game. Regardless though I like how everything came out, especially the design of the cards. 

Posted on

Court of Champions

I like that it’s a trivia game based on one subject. The improvements made from the original prototype to the new board is very good. It’s cool that you put in the time to 3D print everything instead of buying them online. 

Posted on

Garden Glory

I like the point system. Love the design of the cards, it’s very simple but clean. Want to see how the new greenhouse spaces work. I love how she took notes from photosynthesis and applied it to her own. 

Posted on

Game review

Kelsey’s and Grace’s game

Was it fun? Yes I thought it was really simple and fun to play. What made it better is when somebody could not solve a riddle so the players just end up grilling each other. The interactions were funny to be honest, just everyone trying to solve some of the riddles is awesome. I can not talk because I don’t think I got one right. To learn the game it took under two turns for me at least. Honestly everything is very simple and easy to learn and I cant really think on anything that can be improved. You know you did a good job when Owen can’t exploit your game somehow.

Posted on

Game prototype review

The way play testing affected me at least is the different ways people view the rules and game itself. For instance, I had Owen play test for me outside of class and he found a way to exploit every rule I made. Pretty much the game I made is for game players like Owen. It sucks that he was able to exploit all of the rules I made but without play testing none of us would be able to figure this situation out. If we were to release games like this without play testing, all of our games would fail because we need people like that to exploit the games in order to fix it and make it better. Other than that, all the other games I have played could not be exploited like that which is good.

Posted on

Zombie Flux Review

Zombie flux is an interesting game to say the least. There are multiple ways to win the game and multiple way to mess up other players. One of the ways is reaching different goal cards. The players can use rule cards in order to change the rules in ways of benefiting or negatively affecting the players. Its a frustrating game for sure, don’t get me wrong. But I love the fact the rules and goals of the game change throughout it.

Posted on

Forbidden island review

Forbidden island is a team building game which requires the players to work together in order to escape the flooding island. You go around collecting relics and trading with your teammates in order to escape the island alive. You have cards that can help you achieve that goal quicker by for instance the shovel thing where you can dig back up some parts of the island so it does not sink. You continue to do that until all the relics are at the exit with your teammates intact. Without your teammates or relics you will not be able to escape. Truly there is nothing I do not like. The game is perfect the way it is.

Posted on

Catan Review

Fun game but its not fair when Professor Ames plays with us becausse he has an unfair advantage. All jokes aside, its a simple game that involves ruling the die to hopefully land on one of the squares that you have land on. There is definetly strategy involved in this because you can play it safe and just get the area near you or you can stretch your land out to claim more resources and get a bonus for having the longest road. It is a little rough though if you are not able to move because of the fact you will be extremely limited on resources. The trading factor fixes that a bit so you can get resources that are hard for the players to obtain. Overall i think its a fun game to play, I wish the land was bigger so the game can last longer.