{"id":12917,"date":"2025-04-09T16:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T20:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=12917"},"modified":"2025-04-09T22:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T02:42:47","slug":"game-reviews-playtests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=12917","title":{"rendered":"Game Reviews\/Playtests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Evelyn\u2019s Around the World in 80 Days<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a great game and I could see myself playing this with my family! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. What was the most frustrating moment or aspect of what you just played? <\/strong>It was frustrating playing with so many people. It took a long time to get to my turn, and we weren\u2019t able to finish the game. But that\u2019s not really an issue with the game\u2019s rules though! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. What was your favorite moment or aspect of what you just played? <\/strong>I like the cards where everyone has the chance to participate, like with naming all the countries that start with a certain letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Was there anything you wanted to do that you couldn\u2019t? <\/strong>Not that I can think of. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. If you had a magic wand to wave, and you could change, add, or remove anything from the experience, what would it be? <\/strong>Maybe make the board a little more exciting. I feel like for the type of the game it is, a square board just feels a little boring, but I wouldn\u2019t be mad if it wasn\u2019t changed at all! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. What should be improved with the next version? <\/strong>I\u2019m not sure how I feel about the blank spaces on the board, part of me wants something to be there but I\u2019m not sure. Maybe some of the trivia cards could have some stuff about capital cities as well?? You could also include some more visual-oriented cards like country flags, fashion, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. What was the games message? <\/strong>The game was about culture and geographic education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evan\u2019s Cracking Jokes Game<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a pretty fun game! I could see myself playing this with friends! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. What was the most frustrating moment or aspect of what you just played? <\/strong>It was just a little too unstructured for me. I feel like I need a timer or a way to keep track of who is \u201cwinning\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. What was your favorite moment or aspect of what you just played? <\/strong>I enjoyed cracking the glowsticks, telling jokes, and listening to what everyone came up with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Was there anything you wanted to do that you couldn\u2019t? <\/strong>I wanted some of the jokes to be something where the whole group had to tell a joke with that category. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. If you had a magic wand to wave, and you could change, add, or remove anything from the experience, what would it be? <\/strong>Just adding things to switch up the turns so it\u2019s not just pick up a card, tell a joke, and repeat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. What should be improved with the next version? <\/strong>You could consider adding the idea of having a spinner or something that determines if the whole group was gonna tell a joke, if it would just be one person, or maybe their is a \u201cduel\u201d with two people? I think that something like that could help make the game a little more exciting (don\u2019t get me wrong I love this game though!) I also wonder if there is an alternative to the glowsticks that you could use so that it isn\u2019t as wasteful?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a06. What was the games message? <\/strong>Telling jokes, making others smile?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evelyn\u2019s Around the World in 80 Days This was a great game and I could see myself playing this with my family!  1. What was the most frustrating moment or aspect of what you just played? It was frustrating playing with so many people. It took a long time to get to my turn, and … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Game Reviews\/Playtests”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,144],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-12917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design-studio-2","category-game-review","tag-marked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917","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=12917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12918,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\/revisions\/12918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}