Serious v. Educational Games

[Disclaimer]: In addition to my regular schoolwork, I am also working on my MFA thesis at the moment, and keeping a blog to catalogue its progress. In the interest of privacy and security I can’t go into too much detail, but I can say that I’m working on a problem that involves producing a serious […]

Klepto Kapers - Group Projects Ascendant

Recently I had the opportunity to participate in a group project as part of my coursework with Brenda: making a board game based on an aesthetic within a team of four. What follows is the postmortem I wrote to describe the process; you can also read a description of the final test launch on Brian’s […]

The Death Penalty

Today in class I participated in a group project to analyze an extremely simple card game called Sissy Fight (based on an experiment from GDC, if I’m not mistaken, or possibly this little gem from Gamelab). Based on a simultaneous reveal mechanic, it’s a quick little game—the rules are simple, the moves basic, the tactics […]