Author: aribarb

I was a bit scared when I first took CS247G because I have never been much of a gamer. I enjoy board games, but…

For this week’s critical play, I explored the dice game Yahtzee. Yahtzee was developed by Milton Bradley, a company that has since been absorbed…

For this week’s critical play, I explored the world of Pokémon Emerald Version, a console game originally made for the Game Boy Advance and…

  One game I really like is A Short Hike, which I played earlier this quarter. It is an indie exploration game where you…

For this week’s critical play, I played Factory Balls. This digital game was designed by Bart Bonte, an indie game designer famous for his…

Moodboard: Playlist (click me to listen!): Possible directions: Direction 1 – Fighting Frozen Food Bosses Each level is a micro-arena ending in a surreal…

At Thursday Game Night hosted by CAs Haven and Ellie, I played The Scandal, a physical “escape room in an envelope” game, with digital interactions…

A Short Hike, created by Adam Robinson-Yu and available on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox, is a game that tells its story through…

For this week’s critical play, I chose to play Mafia. Mafia is a social deduction game and it was created by Dimitry Davidoff in…

Here is my sketchnote:  

1. How does having transparent voting vs. blind voting affect voting in social deduction games? Why is this important? The voting phase is where…

For this week’s critical play, I chose to play a bluffing game: Secret Hitler. This game was developed by Goat, Wolf, & Cabbage LLC,…

Clue is one of my favorite board games ever. The premise of the game is that all the players are guests to a house,…