Month: November 2024

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Project: Catopia. The ecosystem was that of a wild cat family, and the mechanics worked together to create a system that is cyclic and…

Working on Catopia has been the most satisfying experience of my time in this class! I say this because I feel that as a…

Before engaging with the P3 systems game, I was both curious and skeptical about how complex social and economic ecosystems could be distilled into…

The P3 systems game afforded players challenging, submission, discovery, and fantasy fun. The minigames afford challenge by consistently pushing players past their ability to…

My biggest conception about a systems game when starting this project is that they had to be hard to learn, unwieldy board games with…

Before embarking on the P3 systems game, I had a vague understanding of systems thinking. I imagined it as a complex web of interconnected…

Fiximupim modeled the system of dating (from a woman’s perspective). We took inspiration from ideas of women who make their boyfriends better before they…

(Sorry this is late! Thought we submitted before.) After playtesting a final-ish version of the game with some people outside of class, these are…

When we first began developing games, I expected the process to involve mapping out clear mechanics and refining them over time. What I didn’t…

Pandemic Core Goal: Eradicate diseases or run out of time/resources. Components: Players: Scientists, Medic, Researcher, etc. Diseases: Four diseases spreading across cities. Actions: Treat…