{"id":15148,"date":"2025-12-03T16:28:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=15148"},"modified":"2025-12-05T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:18:09","slug":"prototype-dessert-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=15148","title":{"rendered":"Prototype &#8211; Dessert Dash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2 person game (Kaelin and Madison)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rules:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Objective:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be the first to finish your stack of ice cream dishes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Materials:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 deck of 60 cards<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Setup:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shuffle the Deck and deal each player 30 cards randomly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gameplay:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flip over two and place in between your deck of cards.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are no \u201cturns\u201d. The players race to be the first to finish their deck by rapidly matching either the flavor, type of dish or number of dishes on their card to the respective ones on EITHER of the cards that are flipped up in the middle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the game progresses, obviously the cards will change based on what cards the players place on top. Keep placing matching cards as fast as you can, whenever you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game ends when one player finishes their stack. That player is the winner. Hooray!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Changes made: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were edits made to the rules during prototyping to specify the simple mechanics &#8211; we had a moment that somehow the game was played but completely wrong so we tightened the wording<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Changes TO make: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re going to tweak some of the coloring on the card to be more consistent &#8211; the blue ice cream cups threw a few people off on what type<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WIN_20251205_12_16_34_Pro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"965\" src=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WIN_20251205_12_16_34_Pro.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WIN_20251205_12_16_34_Pro.jpg 720w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WIN_20251205_12_16_34_Pro-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thoughts about Playtesting: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most people understood the concept while one group totally didn&#8217;t so that was interesting &#8211; we clarified the rules so all people would understand. It&#8217;s interesting to see how people interpret rules or completely don&#8217;t read them when they think they know how it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Game Card Images:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snapchat-1768538631.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snapchat-1768538631-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snapchat-1768538631-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snapchat-1768538631-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snapchat-1768538631-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snapchat-1768538631-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snapchat-1768538631.jpg 1656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snapchat-1294966729.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snapchat-1294966729-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snapchat-1294966729-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snapchat-1294966729-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snapchat-1294966729-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snapchat-1294966729-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snapchat-1294966729.jpg 1656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 person game (Kaelin and Madison) Rules: Objective:&nbsp; Be the first to finish your stack of ice cream dishes.&nbsp; Materials: 1 deck of 60 cards Setup:&nbsp; Shuffle the Deck and deal each player 30 cards randomly Gameplay:&nbsp; Flip over two and place in between your deck of cards.&nbsp; There are no \u201cturns\u201d. The players race &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=15148\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prototype &#8211; Dessert Dash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,83,150],"tags":[154,139],"class_list":["post-15148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-game-rules","category-prototype","tag-documentation","tag-marked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15148","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\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15356,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15148\/revisions\/15356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}