DesignForPlay

Devlog

• Week 14- Landlords and Ladies
  December 05, 2022 by BridgeIsFallingDown

  The Landlord Game was the first U.S. patented game in 1904 invented by Quaker woman Elizabeth Magie. It was used to “promote the social ideas behind the Single Tax Movement”- Radical Game Design... Continue reading
• Week 13- No Pain No Game
  November 22, 2022 by BridgeIsFallingDown

  We are in the making of our final board game of the semester, Basilisk is my group's chosen board game in which four players try to collect as much treasure as possible while avoiding the giant Basili... Continue reading
• Week 12- Trying to be transparent
  November 14, 2022 by BridgeIsFallingDown

  This week we have started our final board game project in class and due to this, we are studying transparency. You can tell if a game has transparency by seeing how much strategy is needed to play the... Continue reading
• Week 11- Card or Discard? That is the question
  November 07, 2022 by BridgeIsFallingDown

  This week my group and I created a Halloween discard-themed card game. Taking from James Ernest’s Writing Effective Rules , although not in the order the author intended, my group and I were able to... Continue reading
• Week 10- Deck of Cards
  October 31, 2022 by BridgeIsFallingDown

  This week in class we are continuing our study of card games, but with a twist. Every group was tasked to make a playable discard card game with a spooky theme and at least 52 cards. Although it took... Continue reading
• Week 9
  October 31, 2022 by BridgeIsFallingDown

  This week in class we studied and played card games, my group was assigned to play Burger Truck Battle. The set up itself was in a standard ordinal fashion “Since cards are planar and uniform, they... Continue reading
• Week 07
  October 10, 2022 by BridgeIsFallingDown

  “One who are we, two how do we win, and three why will this be fun?”- How To Teach Board Games Like a Pro . The previous quote is from the Youtube video How To Teach Board Games Like a Pro by Shut... Continue reading
• Week 05- Failure Is Nothing To Be Ashamed Of
  September 26, 2022 by BridgeIsFallingDown

  I have just finished the fifth week of my Design for Play Class in which we converted a sport of our choosing into a playable board game. My group chose water polo and while I wouldn’t say our game... Continue reading
• Week 3- Direct Actions and Indirect Accidents
  September 12, 2022 by BridgeIsFallingDown

  Week three of my Game Design for Play class and we tested our folk games with our peers. My favorite game was the movable musical chairs, even though I got a little too excited and almost went face-fi... Continue reading
• Week 2- The Six Elements of Play Design
  September 07, 2022 by BridgeIsFallingDown

  Week two of my Game Design for Play class and we are creating our own folk game. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, folk games are the games that have been passed down from generation to gene... Continue reading
• Week 01 - The Designer Behind The Game
  August 29, 2022 by BridgeIsFallingDown

  On Thursday August 25th, 2022 I attended my first college game design course. It was an overall good day as my professor introduced himself after the first 45 minutes of class and then prompted us out... Continue reading