Week 3 Game Thoughts

Dumb Ways To Die

Honestly, not a huge fan. It’s a fun game and an interesting concept, but I get annoyed after playing for so long. I don’t think the point of the game is replay-ability, but I can’t see getting addicted to it. I’m glad it seemed to serve it’s intended purpose and probably even made money.

Fake it to Make it

Just seems like a way for kids to learn how to make money on the internet a little too early, but what do I know. I like the lesson in how easy it is to propagate and interact with fake news. I just don’t think a game like that is going to find the audience it wants to impact.

Cards Against Calamity

I had my wife play this game and her response was “I can’t play games like this I’m a theorist and capitalism doesn’t work, you’ll run out of money” so I think this game can be improved. If you play this game based upon making choices you feel are best, and not paying attention to mechanics (Max) I feel like you get something different out of the game. That’s probably the point.

Cast Your Vote

Too long, too much reading. No teenager in their right mind is going to learn the mechanics of voting and educating yourself doing something so mindless and tedious at the same time. This game only served to enrage my wife which was pretty funny. I guess now it’s my job to make a better game for kids to learn voting from since this one sucked.