Category: CS247G

P3 was a game of unexpected consequences in many ways, but certainly in that the project itself was full of unexpected consequences. When starting…

Fig 1. An animation I drew in 1.5 hours that added literally nothing to the game’s system but people liked it a lot !…

Before making a systems game Before making a systems game, I wasn’t entirely sure what that actually meant (I thought almost all games were…

Before this project, I always thought that systems games meant lots of pieces, rules, components, and mechanics. As such I assumed that we’d build…

In Battle of the Bands, I was primarily responsible for gameplay design. As noted in the writeup, the most challenging aspect of the iteration…

Our team’s systems game, LOVEBUG, models the spread of the ILOVEYOU computer virus in the 2000s through a mix of system representation and social…

Before P3, I had never really thought about the concept of a systems game besides just a spreadsheet masquerading as a game with light…

The process of creating Lovebug was, in my opinion, the most difficult of all of this course’s projects. To begin, it was a bit…

P3 started out with a big question: what is a system? My originally-minimal expertise in answering this question made P3 the project with the…

Before starting this project, I had never designed a systems game and honestly had not given much thought to the variety of game types…

Final deliverable https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1g3HpqxAgD9fnftRS2MDR4S1A7ZhrvyKK?usp=drive_link Overview Battle of the Bands Players: 4 • Time: 45  minutes • Genre: Deck-builder / Strategy You’re managing a scrappy band…

Not On My Block! was very fun to create as it required a careful balance between players and strategies. Its asymmetrical design represented gentrification…

I really appreciated how our group had a clear vision of building a simple system game. I often get overwhelmed with board games, and…