Sean Gibson's ePortfolio

Who played your map on its final iteration? (Player names and their chosen class) What went right? What went wrong? How did implementing doors/keys help or hurt your level? How did the players respond to the items introduced? Notable changes that you made from your first iteration. On the final iteration, the players of my map were Anish and Jewel. Sadly, Kafka was sick on the final iteration test day and so they did not play. Anish chose Warrior and Jewel picked Mage. Lots of things went right in my playtest! Although having one less player did greatly alter the experience of the level, the playtest still went very well. With a brief explanation, my players were able to fully make use of all the macros/character abilities I had implemented in order to streamline the gameplay, and they were a massive time saver since I didn’t have to calculate the damage numbers myself. The new elements I added to the game like the hares also provided some fun surprises to the players! Not a lot went w...

  Game Info Group Number 2 In Treats and Trials, Players build their own haunted houses out of trap and candy cards. Then, the exploration phase begins and players explore each other’s haunted houses by turning over cards! Candy cards give you candy pieces, but trap cards raise your fear level and can force you to leave without collecting all the candy! The Player with the most candy after three rounds is the winner! Target Audience: Director, Explorer, Competitor, Achiever The Pitch This time around, we were pitching our own original game ideas to the class! This assignment was due on halloween night, and since halloween was fresh in my mind I was thinking about halloween games that I could create. I recalled how when I was very young, my grandparents liked to set up a haunted house in their front yard for trick or treaters to explore. (It terrified me when I was 3!) With this on my mind, I thought of how I could bring the experience of exploring a haunted maze to a card game, o...

  Games Played Knights, Wizards, and More The Gray Cross H.O.P.E. Cure Extraction Formal Elements (Knights, Wizards, and More) Players Knights, Wizards and More (KWM) is a 4 Player game, with a Multilateral Interaction Pattern Objectives The main objective of KWM is to be the last player standing Accomplishing this comes with some smaller objectives along the way, such as Acquiring better gear Defeating other Opponents Rules Each card has special rules for when it is played, which are shown on the cards Players can only move the number of spaces that corresponds to their dice roll Players must take turns When Players cross paths on the game board, they enter combat When a Player’s HP reaches 0, they are out of the game The card you draw is determined by the color of the space you land on after moving Procedures Rolling the Dice (Movement, Defending, Attacking) Flipping a Coin (Deciding who goes first) Using Cards (Items, Equipment, Special) Moving your Character Drawing Car...

  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 gro...

  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...

  Group 5 Solitaire: Joker’s Gambit is a modified version of Solitaire in which the inclusion of the Joker cards provides a new layer of depth and strategy to the game. Managing your Jokers carefully will allow you to gain an edge, but get careless and you’ll risk ending your game!! Target Audience: Puzzle Solvers, Fans of Solitaire who want to play the game with a new twist/challenge Solitaire: Extreme! Has changed a lot since my last post here! Our playtests of the second iteration of this project had brought a significant problem to light. The game just felt like Solitaire. This I believe stemmed from two factors: One, the consequence of moving a face down card to the stock or tableau didn't end up being as impactful as we had hoped, as either way it would just be found again later without any adjustment to the  strategy used. Second, the Joker cards would be taken out of circulation after they were triggered, meaning that once both had been used, the game was entirely th...