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questions week 2

  • Question Set 1
    1. What Mechanics would you like to use for a game with a theme that revolves around being the size of a nanometer?

Large jumps like a flee, being able to Cary things larger than you, being able to be picked up by the wind.

2. Who are you making games for?

People like me. people who want a layer back game with no overly complicated rule sets but really nice art and visuals to make the game fun to keep coming back to.

3. Who will be your play testers outside of class?

My friends and if i have time to go home my younger brother definitely.

  • Question Set 2
    1. Can you think of a game you were able to play without referring to the rules?

uno, war, games like Minecraft and slime ranchers or other games where the rules aren’t written you just come acrost what you can and cant do.

  • How do you define what a game is?

a game is an experience that has rules and a desired outcome/ way to win.

  • Question Set 3
    1. What was your gateway game? What do you play to introduce others to gaming?

i really cant remember my gate way game, most likely it was one of the games on my leap frog but wears my water and a tinker bell game were some of the first mobile games i ever had/ remember. Mario cart is one game i feel like can be very helpful to start with, it can take time to understand all of the controls but their are ways to minimize what someone has to remember. that i one of the games my brother played to start onto video games, i feel like games similar to uno or go fish are good starting games for card games.

  • What features do gateway games share?

simplicity in rules and straight forward gameplay.

  • How does luck and strategy factor in to game play?

some card games are very luck based because you relay on what cards you end up pulling out of a deck, but they are also strategy because you have to understand how to use your cards in the most beneficial way. many games relay on strategy, if you don’t have some basic stratigay for how you want to even if its as simple as knowing the way to win. but their is also strategy in button mashing, cuse subconsciously you learn what buttons are most likely to get you where you need. you can also be so good at timing and still need.`

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game designs cards

  1. darts but with cards, they don’t have to stick just hit a certain part of the board.
  2. paper football but with a playing card.
  3. balloon pop( distance game kind of like archery)
  4. ceiling tile tic tac toe( normal tic tac toe rules)
  5. prediction.( everyone gets a card and someone has to guess the card someone else has, if you don’t guess the card you have to pick up a new card to be your main card if you do guess it you get to give one of your stock piled cards to your opponent, whoever has the most cards at the end of a certain amount of rounds loses and the player with the least cards wins.
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thoughts on dominion

  1. it was fun but the turns got very redundant because we weren’t using any curse cards so it was just a lot of buying and not a lot of playing action cards to win.
  2. the interactions were very minimal between players because their wasn’t any attacking and not a lot of us really used the action cards curse their was no need in how we ended up playing.
  3. it took us probably about 30 minutes to understand the basic rules( after Ames explained them to us in simpler terms) and about an hour to actually smoothly move from turn to turn.
  4. i would love to play again. their were many parts that we didn’t end up using so i would love to play another game with all of the cards and rules in full swing.
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week 1 questions kelsey

In Your Opinion what should every game have? Why do you like your favorite game?

Every game needs a set of rules and a goal. If their isn’t a goal then why progress at all, it can get boring really fast. all the games i play may be more of a sandbox where you can just meander but their are still always new things to discover. i enjoy slime ranchers because it has great visuals, a slight danger aspect to hinder or jut break up the monotony of bright colors, and it always has a reason for you to keep making money and collecting slimes. even if you get all of the slimes their are friends that you can do chores for or you can just sit and watch your stock piles of food and money clime which is very satisfying.

List the games you have played or currently Play.

Minecraft, slime ranchers, slime ranchers 2, legend slime, mahjong, solitaire, Pokémon( X, Alpha Sapphire, Sun, Lets Go Eevee, Go), Splatoon 2, Hatsune miku colorful stage, beatstar, plants vs zombies, jetpack joy ride, Fortnite, Mario cart, Mario party, pacman party. i could keep going but this list would be forever lol.

Can you apply the three-act structure to your favorite game? What is its pacing and how long do you find yourself in each act?

i can apply it to slime ranchers. the first act is the opening to the game, its just a block of text that you can just skip past and not read but it sets up why your character is on this planet and what they are doing their. it is really quick. over the course of the first few days you get a few emails from other farmers saying welcome an this leads to you helping them collect random things around your ranch. some emails are from a friend on your home planet as the game progresses they remains about old times and basically say they miss you. i don’t think i have ever come to the end of this plot line but is is very interesting to read the first time you play. also something that has a good pacing based on how fast you progress in the world are these letters left in the lands outside of your ranch. they are from a man who had lived in your ranch before. they give quick insight about his thinking and kind of parallel the emails in a way. both seem to be talking in a way like they long for a lost love or someone they never got to tell their feelings to. when you get to the last one it gives you a good moral, it tends o feel like this is it but when you look deeper it shows a story of a man who realized that he cant sit here forever and he needs to go for what he wants to find. you don’t get to much insight into your own characters story mostly because your the one crating her ranch and what she prioritizes o their isn’t a lot about her character except for her past. the passing focuses heavily o the second act. i don’t know if I’ve truly ever made it to the true ending of the game but it seems to not gloss over but not hold a lot of time on the first and final act.

When coming up with ideas where do you find your start, with the metaphor or the mechanics?

it depends, most of the time i tend to start with the mechanics. in my game coding class in school we normal started with how the platforms work and how the enemies move before we think about the look and the quote unquote story.

Over the course of this semester, who would you like to collaborate with and why?

i would love o collaborate with Evan or Gideon or sara, they always have really cool ideas and are so easy to get along with, which is something i really look for in someone i partner/collaborate with. those also tend to be the people i look up to in the our major because they aren’t years ahead of me so i don’t feel to disconnected but they are still older than me and know the ropes a little better so they re someone i know i can ask my questions to and get real answers and not those cookie cutter answers.

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game ideas kelsey

  1. Flashlight tag
  2. Bobby cart, using the Bobby model and other carts to race around the campus.
  3. hide and seek
  4. scavenger hunt
  5. shuttle dodge
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flux kelsey

  1. It was very fun but also frustrating because of the people I played with.
  2. the interactions were aggravating when people were slow. Over all everyone interacted well though.
  3. it was a lot easier to progress through, it was nice to not have to look over the rules and ask multiple questions. The game also when faster( if people would make decisions quicker)
  4. I would play again, rather it not be the zombies one because it’s fun to learn for game mechanics and rules.
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little alien kelsey

i wanted to project this onto a dorm building so that i could animate he alien abduction a person, i was not able to execute this but i made a simulation of what i wanted to look like.

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Dice Throne Remastered

Overview of how to play:

Disclaimer: If card has a defensive effect nix that effect and ad a damage counter.( radiance, and vibranium suit)

The point of the game is to inflict damage on your opponent by rolling a set of dice. You use combat points to use abilities to inflict that damage represented by attacks on your board.

Each player goes through all of these phases before it switches to the next person’s turn.

At the beginning of each person’s turn they must choose between gaining 2 combat points or picking up 2 cards.

Main phase 1:

You start out with 2 combat points and these can be used to upgrade your attacks. The cards that you need to upgrade your attacks will have an indication of how many combat points they cost. You will know that it is an upgrade because of the blue up arrow

A card with a white border is an offensive ability and a card with a green border is a defensive ability.

Cards with a star are action cards. These cards give you a benefit for your character, you can spend combat points and follow what that card says.

You can also sell cards and get one combat point per card you sell.

You do not have to do any of these things if you don’t want to and move on to your offensive roll

Offensive roll phase:

Roll your dice (you can reroll dice 2 times and you do not have to roll all of your dice). You want to get your dice to match one of your abilities so that you can use it.

Whatever your dice match, that will be the ability that you attack your opponent with, they will match in either number or symbol so make sure you read all of your abilities before you go rerolling so you know what you can do.

If you don’t get the rolls you want some of your cards in your hand can be used to fix it to get what you want, these do also cost combat points. These cards are orange.

Defensive roll phase:

This doesn’t happen in our rules; you can not defend any damage.

Main phase 2:

Same as main phase one, upgrade, use, or sell cards.

When you are done with this phase you just have to discard down to 6 cards and your turn is over.