Category: Critical Play

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…

Two Truths and a Lie I chose this classic game because of its themes of conversation, deduction, invention, bluffing, interrogation, and storytelling. Mechanics In…

Theme and Game Description Spyfall is characterized as a communication, deceit, and deduction game suitable for 3+ players. The narrative for the story centers…

This is a board game based on a TV show Would I Lie To You.  The game is meant to emphasize high interactivity between…

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…

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…

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…

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…

For this week’s Critical Play, I played Finish the Story (https://www.imagineforest.com/blog/finish-the-story-game/), a game aimed at grade school students that is based around collaborative writing…