Week 4 Game Ideas and Review

Alana Tush

Game Ideas– animal themed

1. Online game where you have to take care of animals in the zoo and there are time constraints so you have to be dedicated to the game to make sure all the animals are properly fed and cared for.
2. card came where each player puts down an animal card and the strongest animal wins. The cards will have a number at the top signifying how many food tokens to collect. You can feed your animals this way.
3. Board game of a zoo, you travel around and have to complete a task before your next turn.

Tsuro Game Review

1. Was it fun? This game was fairly fun, it wasn’t the most entertaining, but I liked how your move can sabotage other players.
2. Is it interactive? Yes this game is interactive because everyone is paying attention to each players move to decide what they want to do when its their next turn
3. Was it easy to learn? Yes this was easy to learn, it was a little confusing at first to know what to do when we ran out of tiles to place but we eventually got the hang of it.
4. Would you replay? Yes, I would replay this game because it takes less than 20 minutes to finish the game so it doesn’t get boring once you’re stuck in the middle of the game.
5. What are the collaborative and or competitive aspects of the game? The collaborative aspect is that you have to pay attention to all players tile choice to see if you have to move your piece. The game is also slightly competitive because you can place a tile that will make another players piece go off the board and lose.
   • Act 1- Reading the rules, understanding how to place tiles and move along the path of the tiles, understanding what the objective is (don’t fall off the game board)
   • Act 2- starting to place tiles, moving your piece, and sabotaging others paths and plans through the game
   • Act 3- Starting to use strategy to eliminate other players to make it easier for you to win.

Citadels Game Review

1. Was it fun? I didn’t really like this game, I guess it was fun while it lasted.
2. Is it interactive? Yes this game is very interactive, players are always switching character cards and each character has a special ability to sabotage another person.
3. Was it easy to learn? This was complicated to learn, you really have to pay attention to what others are doing and read the character cards so you have the best chance of having fun.
4. Would you replay? No I would not replay
5. What are the collaborative and or competitive aspects of the game? The competitive aspects of t he game are to sabotage another player by stealing their buildings or gold coins.
6. What is the game’s metaphor and which of the game’s mechanics standout? The games metaphor was to build as many structures as possible, once you get to 8, you win. The mechanics include: placing cards, drawing cards, taking coins from the bank, paying coins to the bank, and picking cards from a communal set of character cards
   • Act 1- reading rules, dealing 4 cards to each player, giving players 2 coins from the bank, separating white star cards to the side.
   • Act 2- Game play- picking character cards, either taking 2 coins from the bank or picking up 2 building cards, paying the bank
   • Act 3- Being competitive and sabotaging other players so they do not get 8 cards to win the game.