Originally posted on Tate's Blog:
When you think tertiary education spending three weeks worth of classes playing board games is probably not the first thing that would come to mind, at least it wasn’t for me. But as my cousin likes to say “we don’t hate that”. The only real board games i had…
In the first week of our BCM 300 Class, we were asked to begin our journey into game production by experiencing board games first hand. The group I was placed in decided to play Codenames, a guessing game that required very little explanation and was an interesting and enjoyable first step into the world of… Read More Codenames: Analysis and Background Information
Originally posted on ray of sunshine:
Over the past 3 weeks of BCM300, we have had the opportunity to play and analysis a range of different board games. Board games that before this class I had never heard of, let alone been given the pleasure to play. This experience has shown me the value of…
Originally posted on GRACE GOLLASCH:
During week 2 I got the opportunity to play-test Flash Point: Fire Rescue, a cooperative board game where all players are on the same team and everyone either wins or loses together. The overall aim of the game is to rescue at least seven victims trapped inside a burning building before…
Originally posted on RobJeromeJ:
Splendorous Splendor (…This pun had to be made) The cover art of the box set From designer Marc André, illustrations by Pascal Quidault and publisher ‘Space Cowboys’ comes a resource management style board game called ‘Splendor‘ Published in 2014 and acquiring many various award nominations and winnings for its release, this game simulates…
Originally posted on krisesandchrosses:
Codenames & Codenames Pictures Game Developer: Vlaada Chvátil Publisher: Czech Games Designer: Vlaada Chvátil Illustrators/Artists: David Cochard, Jana Kilianová, Tomáš Kučerovský, Filip Neduk, Michal Suchánek. Rulebook can be found, here. Rules and Mechanics: “Two rival spymasters know the secret identities of 25 agents. Their teammates know the agents only by their CODENAMES. In Codenames, two teams compete…
Originally posted on Meggen Pigram:
During the first three tutorials of BCM300, our class has been playtesting a range of boardgames. The game I have chosen to analyse is called Flash Point – a cooperative boardgame where all players work together to rescue people and animals from a burning building. I chose to analyse this…
Originally posted on Sunny Commandeur:
Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher that concluded there was no essential definition of ‘game’ – It seems impossible to find catch-all similarities between everything we call a game. For every common ground we find, there is an example of a game that that somehow subverts it. Instead, Wittgenstein proposed we…
Originally posted on Have A Beer With V:
In a nutshell, King of Tokyo is a high materiality game featuring monsters who fight to the death to, you guessed it, become King of Tokyo. Image taken from Amazon Released in 2011, the game’s target market is young kids aged between 6-12 years old. There can…
Originally posted on Emily G.:
During the first week of class, groups were created as we got ready to embark on our game playing adventure… There was a number of options of board games we could choose from, which made our choice more difficult. One of the guys picked up a game based just purely…
