{"id":10835,"date":"2024-11-09T16:18:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T20:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=10835"},"modified":"2024-11-10T22:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T02:47:28","slug":"garden-sabotage-playtest-at-gaming-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=10835","title":{"rendered":"Garden Sabotage Playtest at Gaming Marathon\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Game Maker\u2019s Play Tests Notes #1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>What questions did your players have? <\/strong>Not really any\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>How quickly did they learn to play? <\/strong>Pretty quickly, but there are a lot of little rules and different actions that make it more difficult. I was able to explain the rules faster than it would have taken to learn.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What kinds of interactions did the players have? <\/strong>Playing bad bugs on each other, trying to prevent each other from reaching 5 objective cards first.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What confused players? <\/strong>A little bit of confusion with how the pesticide works\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What made players excited? <\/strong>Being able to play a bug card, complete objectives, etc.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What did your players enjoy doing? <\/strong>Same thing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Did any aspect of the game frustrate players? <\/strong>Not having any protection over the plants that you have. They could be eaten at any time.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Player Questions #1&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>What was the most frustrating moment or aspect of what you just played? <\/strong>Being sabotaged with bugs and losing a plant you planted\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What was your favorite moment or aspect of what you just played? <\/strong>Sweeping the plant cards, sabotaging with bugs.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Was there anything you wanted to do that you couldn\u2019t? <\/strong>Have protection for my plants with the pesticide\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>If you had a magic wand to wave, and you could change, add, or remove anything from the experience, what would it be? <\/strong>Magically hand draw every illustration\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What should be improved with the next version? <\/strong>Specify that you can play the cards in any order, it doesn\u2019t need to be the order that&#8217;s on the card.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Describe the game in 3 words. <\/strong>Strategic, competitive, cute\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Potential Changes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Design the game board to look like plant pots, shelves, or a greenhouse maybe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clarify that when dealing cards to players you take it from the top of the pile and not the reserve\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have names on the back of the cards\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have more instructions on the cards themselves<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have a protection over bugs being placed in your garden\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clarify pesticide rules<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Don\u2019t have the two faceup bugs because it makes it too easy\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clarify that you can lay down your cards in any order on your player mat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game Maker\u2019s Play Tests Notes #1 Player Questions #1&nbsp; Potential Changes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,64],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-10835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-game-reviews","tag-marked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10836,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions\/10836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}