Game Reviews (Tester) for Peers’ Playable Prototypes (by Benjamin Zou)

Rule Set 2

The challenging part of the game: Trying to figure out how this game work due to the complex values that could mean so much for players in terms of the winning process and distance

The Surprising Moment of the gameplay: The value each player draw could be everything out of their control; the most unexpected outcome is I accidentally won by just picking out the ace card (only if I get a value of 50). This game also has the function of switching turns and picking out a queen/king.

Rule Modifications for the game (recommendations for switching, adding, and/or removing): Maybe start with three cards so that players feel more challenged.

Impression of the Game: It is a magical play about the exchange of values

Replaying Willingnesses (Enjoyments of the Game): I enjoy despite the complex formats of the rulesets since I learned a little bit about the game’s objective: how each card’s values could enable one to go against others.

Disasters

The challenging part of the game: I cannot own items as full as I wish since I need to discard items once I draw a card that could exceed my current item cards.

The Surprising Moment of the gameplay: The adventurous gameplay involves the action of interacting with the next player to complete the goals, therefore each card is detectable to all players. In other words, this game is about getting things from the next players to create satisfying goals for each other — how greedy are our pursuits for possessions?

Rule Modifications for the game (recommendations for switching, adding, and/or removing): Creating more variety of disasters to elevate more obstacles for players to get through the path to their destination.

Impression of the Game: Will players have the right tools to deal with unexpected hazards?

Replaying Willingnesses (Enjoyments of the Game): The genre of this game is filled with narrative elements including items collections and unexpected harmful circumstances which encourage narrators like me to puzzle the sequences of the plot — it is definitively exciting for an adventurous personality like me.