Critical Play: Bluffing, Judging and Getting Vulnerable: Coup April 20, 2021 Coup is a board game whose themes are deception, bluffing, and battle of wit. Formal Elements Players Coup supports 2-6 players. In each game,…
Critical Play: Bluffing, Judging and Getting Vulnerable with skribbl.io April 20, 2021 Background Information Skribbl.io is an online multi-player drawing and guessing game. Creator:@ticedev Link to game: https://skribbl.io/ Formal Elements of the Game 1. Players Each…
Critical Play: Bluffing, Judging, and Getting Vulnerable – skribbl.io April 20, 2021 Mechanics & Formal Elements For this week’s Critical Play, I played the online browser game skribbl.io. The premise is simple: each player gets a…
Judging skribbl.io April 19, 2021 skribbl.io is a judging game where one player gets assigned a secret word from one of 3 options that they then have to illustrate…
Critical Play: Cards Against Humanity April 18, 2021 Cards against Humanity is a social judging game. Players take turns being the “judge” by drawing a card that contains a phrase with a…
Critical Play: One Night Ultimate Werewolf April 17, 2021 This week, 10 of us got together over Zoom to play Werewolf online. We attempted to play the mobile version by Bezier Games, and…
Critical Play: Competitive Analysis of Two Truths and a Lie April 14, 2021 Two Truths and a Lie I chose this classic game because of its themes of conversation, deduction, invention, bluffing, interrogation, and storytelling. Mechanics In…
Competitive Analysis of Beak, Feather, & Bone April 14, 2021 Game Mechanics In Beak, Feather & Bone players take turn claiming buildings on a map and describing their appearance, function, and significance towards a…
Critical Play – Spyfall April 13, 2021 Theme and Game Description Spyfall is characterized as a communication, deceit, and deduction game suitable for 3+ players. The narrative for the story centers…
Critical Play: Competitive Analysis of Would I Lie To You April 13, 2021 This is a board game based on a TV show Would I Lie To You. The game is meant to emphasize high interactivity between…
Critical Play: Competitive Analysis – Fiasco April 13, 2021 Game Description + Theme FiascoI is a GM-less role-playing and storytelling game in which 3-5 players tell the story of characters based on the role…
Critical Play #2: Lovecraftian Shorts April 13, 2021 Description I played Lovecraftian Shorts, a GM-less roleplay game for three players. This is a narrative-based game; the theme is three characters going on…
Critical Play & Comparative Analysis: Avalon April 13, 2021 This week, I played an online adaptation of the board game called The Resistance: Avalon. It is essentially a game of hidden loyalty (also…
Critical Play (Competitive Analysis): Avalon April 13, 2021 Description and Theme Avalon, a King-Arthur-themed variant of The Resistance, is a deductive reasoning party game in which 5-10 players are secretly assigned roles…
Critical Play: Comparative Analysis of Hanabi April 13, 2021 Hanabi (https://hanabi.cards) is a cooperative card game. Rules There are 50 cards, in 5 different colors (which means 10 cards each color), in each…
Critical Play (Competitive Analysis): Psycho BS April 12, 2021 Psycho BS is a bluffing card game played with a standard 52-card playing deck. You can read the rules here, but the main rule…
Critical Play of Drawize April 12, 2021 Overview Drawize is an online guessing and drawing game where players take turns drawing picking an object from three choices, and drawing the one…
Critical Play: Competitive Analysis with Contact April 12, 2021 Overview Given that the game that my project team and I are prototyping is a word-guessing/avoiding game, the game I conducted this critical play…
Competitive (Comparative) Analysis for Taboo April 12, 2021 Taboo is a word-guessing game where the objective is for a player to have their teammates guess the word on their card without using…
Critical Play (Competitive Analysis): Two Truths and a Lie April 12, 2021 Two Truths and a Lie is a unilateral social game in which players attempt to outwit each other by revealing surprising truths and telling…