P1: Dealbreakers April 24, 2026 Artistic Statement: Your partner cheated on your best friend in elementary school. Your professor writes viral My Little Pony fanfic. Your therapist thinks the…
Critical Play: The Chameleon – Jinpu April 16, 2026 The game I selected is The Chameleon, designed by Rikki Tahta and published by Big Potato Games for tabletop play. It is a party…
Critical Play: Competitive Analysis April 15, 2026 What I love most about social deduction games like Mafia, Avalon, or Among us, is cooperating with others to figure out missing information. In…
Ryan Li, Short Exercise: What do Prototypes Prototype? April 10, 2026 Our team is working on “The Shrimp Game,” which is a social deduction game similar to Duck Duck Goose. We plan to implement some…
Lily – What do Prototypes Prototype? April 9, 2026 Our game is an animal themed social deduction game where good players must complete tasks and identify evil players before they sneak enough of…
Short Exercise: What Do Prototypes Prototype? April 9, 2026 For P1, our team wants to test a few changes to Bananagrams. My ideas focus less on pure vocabulary speed and more on teamwork,…
What do Prototypes Prototype April 8, 2026 My team is explorinh a social deduction / resource management game that feels kind of like if Monopoly and Mafia had a baby. The…
Short Exercise: What do Prototypes Prototype? April 8, 2026 The featured image is AI generated. My team and I have an idea for a social deduction and resource management game. The premise centers…
Critical Play: Bluffing, Judging and Getting Vulnerable… April 8, 2026 I had a blast playing Avalon during Monday’s board game night. Avalon is a hidden-role social deduction board game designed by Don Eskridge for…
What do Prototypes Prototype- Jessica April 8, 2026 Image generated by ChatGPT While prototypes can be made to test many elements, the most important elements in my mind at this time are…
Short Exercise: What do Prototypes Prototype? April 8, 2026 In yesterday’s class, our group discussed about making bluffing and social deduction games. While nothing is decided yet, I’ll assume that we’re working on…
MDA & 8 Kinds of Fun – Cooking Mama April 6, 2026 The game I’ll be talking about for this assignment is Cooking Mama – it’s a game I remember fondly from my childhood and I…
MDA & 8 Kinds of Fun – Neko Atsume April 5, 2026 Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector is a game I loved growing up. The mechanics are very anticlimactic; there is no challenge or confrontation at all….
Weasel – A Social Mediation Game April 26, 2025 Created by Justin B, Noe Chicas-Aranda, Richard Chen, and Victor Chen Weasel? What’s that? Our game, “Weasel,” was designed to create moments of…
P1: Secret Society – Adi, Ari, Kelly, Nhu April 26, 2025 Artist’s Statement Let’s be real— we’ve all been there. That moment when you’re with your friends and someone asks a question that makes your…
Project 1: Social Mediation Game – Amaru, Amelia, Brett, & Evan April 26, 2025 Artist’s Statement With our game, Filibuster, we sought to create a fast-paced party game for all types of people. It’s designed to be accessible…
P1: Let Them Eat Cake April 26, 2025 Created by Team 11: Kristine Ma, Varsha Saravanan, Yinlin Zhao, Yosief Abraham Artist statement ⊹ ࣪ ˖🍰₊˚⊹♡ It is the eighteenth century, and the…
Project 1: Social Mediation Game: Conspiracy April 26, 2025 Stella Li Ingrid Nordberg Niam Shah Blog Post Artist’s Statement The earth is flat, Paul McCartney died in 1966, and birds aren’t…
Project 1: Social Mediation Game – Pastry Party April 26, 2025 Pastry Party Group 3 (Mai Mostafa, Myan Ngo, Thu Le, Kimberly May, Tesvara Jiang) Artist Statement We created Pastry Party to be a casual,…