This week in BCM320 we live tweeted during the viewing of Gojira, 1954, which is the original Godzilla. Click here to view tweets. Having never had to live tweet or watch a black and white movie with subtitles, this was a very unique experience. I found myself thinking more about the effect of the movie…
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Concept for Start-Up! Box art. Articulating my game rules in a clear and simple way is probably the most difficult experience of this game creation so far. I have a tendency to mash words terribly; I’m probably the world’s worst explainer-er (see what I mean?). I am using this…
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Confrontation. To some degree, almost every single board game has it – even the cooperative ones. In the format that exists within my game, Start Up!, the players are directly competing against each other. However, there is no direct confrontation or conflict. In fact, adding the element of the “points for…
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Shark Tank: The card game? The game idea that I’ve been developing is a relatively simple concept to begin with for my game, Start Up!, so the abstraction of the game itself is very minimal. In fact, I’ve yet to come up with more than one ‘restrictive’ rule –…
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Despite my high hopes for what would have been a great addition to the D&D universe, due to time constraints in this semester (and also life being lifey) I have decided to go forward with one of the more simpler (and ironic) games that I came up with –…
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During a class activity we were asked to brainstorm 10 board game ideas in order to spurn inspiration for our individual projects. We were given a time limit of 5 minutes, so that was 2 ideas every 30 seconds, roughly. I managed to make it to 9, and thought…
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My introduction to the our group for our game pitch The Mars Expedition was a week late, so a lot of the groundwork was already laid out before me. That said, there were a few roadblocks that had occurred by the team’s second meeting that I was able to assist…
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I’m not a person who plays a lot of board games (the flashy ones on the screen are more my forte). So when I try to compare the game that we’ve been creating in class to another board game title, the effort is completely lost on me. With a…
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In the distant future, the earth has all but died, it’s resources all but depleted, each land mass overpopulated to starvation. That is the reality which propels humanity to search for a new home. Mars. It’s a common trope in sci-fi. Mars is the next frontier to be conquered…
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“Picture yourself in the era of discoveries: after a long voyage of great deprivation, your ships have finally reached the coast of an uncharted island. Its name shall be Catan! But you are not the only discoverer. Other fearless seafarers have also landed on the shores of Catan: the…
