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Marshmallow Fight Club Postmortem

  Game Information Group 1 Marshmallow Fight Club is a card game about character creation and fighting. Players create their own unique characters using a selection of gear items, and then those characters fight using their special gear abilities to turn the battle to their advantage! Target Audience: Ages 6-12, Competitors, Storytellers, and Artists seeking a fast-paced, highly replayable Player vs Player experience When we got assigned the project Going into this project, I was very excited because this time we’d be creating a completely original idea for a board game! Albeit with a few constraints. Our group was assigned to make a fighting game with a theme of marshmallows! I thought that this combo was super exciting! However, I was also worried, because when I heard the term “fighting game” I pictured games like street fighter or tekken or smash brothers. But how do you translate a game like that to a board game?? My own First Ideas I was utterly stumped at how me and my group p

Unit 2 Playtest 1

  The Unit 2 Board Games I played were Aaarrrggghhh!!! Bake n Take Imminent Extinction Into the Depths The Formal Elements of Aaarrgghh!!! Players - This game is played by one player against the game system Objectives - The objective of this game is to rescue the 4 mermaids and clear all pirates off of the board Rules - Some of the rules of this game are that pirates are defeated by sacrificing cannonballs equal to 1 point over their HP, you must move your compass by the amount shown on the dice, and if you land on treacherous waters with no mermaid then you lose Procedures - The procedures in this game include rolling the dice to move your compass, using cannonballs to defeat pirates or treasure to bribe them, and using mermaids for safe passage through treacherous waters Resources - Mermaids, cannonballs, and treasure are all resources in this game that can be consumed once. Conflict - The Player wants to clear out the pirates and rescue the mermaids, but hazards like pirates and tre