Rachel Naidich Critical Play: Bluffing, Judging and Getting Vulnerable… April 22, 2022 Name of game: skribbl.io Creator: @ticedev on Twitter Platform: web Target audience: A group of people looking to play something social online without having…
Rachel Naidich Visual Design of Games April 20, 2022 EXERCISE: explore proximity in your design. What should be grouped? What is different, and thus should be separated from gameplay? I think that…
Rachel Naidich Critical Play: Competitive Analysis April 15, 2022 Cards Against Humanity Cards Against Humanity is a social game with a theme of adult humor. At the beginning of each round, players draw…
Rachel Naidich MDA & 8 Kinds of Fun April 13, 2022 One game that I love to play is bughouse. Bughouse is a popular variant of chess that involves teamwork. Rather than playing 1 vs…
Rachel Naidich What do Prototypes Prototype? April 13, 2022 Will people enjoy writing haikus in a game? This is an important question to answer because there are no previous games that incorporate having…
Rachel Naidich Critical Play April 9, 2022 Name of game: Avalon Creator: Don Eskridge Platform: card game Notable Elements: 5 – 10 players. Each round, the person sitting next to the…
Introduction – Rachel Naidich March 29, 2022 Hi! My name is Rachel (she/her), and my favorite game of all time is chess. A recent game I really enjoyed was Life is…
Rachel Naidich Final Reflection Essay March 19, 2022 Before the class, I thought I had a decent amount of experience with games. While I wouldn’t have considered myself to be a “gamer,”…
Rachel Naidich P4 March 17, 2022 Here is a link to my final game: https://rachelnaidich.com/game.html For P4, I wanted to revise my interactive fiction and incorporate more of the comments…
Rachel Naidich P3 Reflection Essay March 17, 2022 In our game, “Weather or not,” Vicky, Cynthia, and I set out to teach players about how precipitation is caused by weather fronts, which…
Rachel Naidich P2 Peer Grading March 17, 2022 What values you see in the game, and how they are reflected in the choices made by the game designer (This is what we’ll…
Rachel Naidich Working With System Dynamics Mind Map March 17, 2022 In our game “Weather or not,” we wanted to teach players about how precipitation is formed through different air masses colliding, creating a weather…
Rachel Naidich P2 Reflection March 16, 2022 For P2, I made “The Disappearance of Jennifer Smith,” a game about getting over the grief of a breakup. You play Emma, a college…