Theme for Spelunkers

Theme: Exploration into an unknown cave.

Tag Line: Be careful where you step.

Example Art Styles:

 

Game Design Brain Storm Ideas

1.     Bomb Tiles

a.     Players move around and place bomb tiles which then explode based off of bomb power.

2.     Spelunkers

a.     Players play tiles face down and move on to them, when landed on you reveal the tile which has effects such as go back two spaces, take damage, or move ahead spaces.

3.     Espionage

a.     Like spelunkers but every character has a secret goal that they want to accomplish.

4.     Wild West

a.     Tile Laying game where the goal is to create a straight path to another player to shoot them, can have possible pick up items that are gathered when shot.

5.     Magi Shot

a.     Tile laying game where the goal is to create a path to another player and hit them with the correct spell combo, different paths do different damage.

6.     Magi Combo

a.     Play the right combination of three cards to deal damage to a player, like rock paper scissors but more in depth with combinations.

                                               i.     You can only use X cards in a row during a round

7.     
Crazed Scientist

a.     Players place cards down to create a combination of elements which only they want, when you get a combination you earn points or can cash it in for a bonus effect.

                                               i.     Game has a stop card in it which will dilute a combination in process.

8.     Missed Signals

a.     Players get tiles they keep face down but can look at.

b.     They try to match tiles with another player but if someone calls what tile they matched it doesn’t count.

c.      Each player has certain goals.

9.     Taco Craft

a.     The goal is to eat as much without going over and you eat cards blindly, unless you eat a certain combination of cards to gain abilities.

10. Crime

a.     Players take on heists which are drawn from a shared deck, they then fill in die rolls and get paid a certain amount of money per die in the heist, you lose if you get busted which can happen on certain die rolls.

11. Slap Shot

a.     Players have team tiles and shot strength tiles.

                                               i.     If a player plays a strong shot strength tile then they score and the goal is to not score against your own team, the team with the highest score wins. You keep track of who you scored on during the game.

12. Ship Captains

a.     Players occupy roles on a ship as it moves through a hazardous map, and they then complete die rolls to save them but they can get bonuses if they are in a certain spot.

13.  Knight Bash

a.     a rock paper scissors type fighter that has stamina and item cards.

                                               i.     As players get hit in certain zones they lose the ability to use cards.

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Game Deconstruction: Sushi Go!

Goal of the Game: The goal for Sushi Go! is to have the most points at the end of all three rounds.

Core Mechanic: Players play cards from their hands face down and then reveal what card they played. After revealing their cards they pass their hand to the player on their left.

Space: The role of space in the game is fairly limited it's just the draw pile, the discard pile and each characters scoring area as well as their active play card.

Objects, Attributes and States: The objects in the game are the 108 cards. The attributes of the cards are their point values and different scoring behaviors. The game has a few states to it, there's playing a card, revealing a card, passing the hands and scoring them. Then each card has a state where it's either going to give you points,give you nothing. or detract from your score. The nigiri cards have a unique state of being on top of a wasabi where their score is then tripled.

ACTIONS:

Operative Actions: The operative action for this game is choosing which card to play for yourself and add to your scoring tray.

Resultant Actions: Resultant Actions of it turns could be losing points if you have the least pudding's at the end of a turn, or another resultant action could be replacing your card and getting

RULES:

Behavioral Rules: The game itself doesn't have any behavioral rules, but focusing on messing up your opponents will result in you making sub optimal moves. While there are no penalties for cheating specifically written it's assumed that you won't cheat because of sportsmanship.

Advisory Rules: It's good to keep your strategy for the round flexible, don't stay stuck on a plan if someone is focused on disrupting that plan.

SKILLS:

Skills Players Learn: They learn to keep track of the cards as the hands pass from one player to another and they're forced to view all the hands as a collected pool instead of individual ones. Another valuable skill the players learn is knowing when to play a card that will get you ahead and when to play a card that will put an opponent behind.

Print and Play Impressions

For Game Design Class we played a variety of Print and Play games found online.
MicroPul.
  MicroPul is a tile laying game with a minimalist aesthetic. The goal itself is pretty simple claim groups of circles called Micropuls to gain victory points which are tallied at the end. What i liked about the game was how every move counted till the end of the game. Even if you had a huge group that seemed game ending, your opponent could still neutralize it. What i didn't like about the game so much was how limiting each turn was, when i played the game there was a series of turns where no one was playing tiles but just taking tiles from their stock pile. Those series of turns slowed down the game a lot and caused it to drag on a bit.

MicroPul Single Player:
Micropul has a single player mode i also played. When played by yourself it feels a bit like solitaire where you're constantly trying to figure out the optimal move. What's nice about the single player mode is that you have total control over the tile lay out so it doesn't feel as slow as the multiplayer version did. There was almost this calming effect from playing it single player because of how relaxed it is and the minimalist aesthetic.

Cards Against Humanity: 
 It's a very popular game but we found a print and play version of it. The game is rather simple and depending upon who you play with determines if it's fun or not. With close friends who don't just choose the raunchiest combination it's a lot of fun and you really have to know the judge. However with groups that just always pick the dirtiest card combo it becomes rather boring.