In class Thur Jan 15th

Chicken Fight: the rules
How could the Chicken Fight rules be made simpler? (with out changing current game play?)

some thoughts:
Consuela as a game piece with a simple rule solves the complex rule: 
*Consuela always moves to the Location of the last fight to clean up. The fight can never be moved to Consuela's location 

- Maybe instead of the current more complex location choosing system of: looser of the battle/looser of the game/ random, pick it should just be 
* the player with the lowest Health Points picks and places the next location. In the case of a tie pick a location card randomly and place it in the first available position starting on the right side of the current location card rotating clockwise.

* If an Attack fails, the Attacker looses 1 HP.





Assignment: Learn the Rules - Teach others
- The Rules of a game can make or break it. Many games have been lost to history because the rules were to complex to create good game flow. Rules are hard to write. you need to express the game mechanics and theme in simple terms so another individual can understand them. They need to be definitive, and need to cover all situations. The Rules are the game.

Each of you will pick a game from the list below. You need to learn these rules well enough to be able to teach and play with another person.

Games:
Vampyre - TSR Mini Game - Gothic Horror Theme - style Advanced Board Game
Revolt on Antares - TSR Mini Game - Sci-Fi Space Theme - style Advanced Board Game
They Invaded Plesantville - TSR Mini Game - Sci-Fi Theme - style Advanced Board Game
Saga - TSR Mini Game - Fantasy Nordic Theme - style Advanced Board Game
Car Wars - Steve Jackson Mini Game - Post Apocalyptic Driving Theme -  style Advanced Board Game
Zombie in My Pocket - Print and Play (PNP), Zombie Theme, style Solo player game
Sword & Backpack - Print and Play, Fantasy Theme, Simple Roleplaying Game
King of the Tabletop - Print and Play, Fantasy Theme, style War Game
Ogre - Steve Jackson Mini Game - Future Militaristic Theme , style War Game
Quest of the Magic Ring - Illegal mass produced game, Fantasy Theme, style Board Game













Review Creating a 3d extrusion

- Find or create an image in black and white in Photodshop. The black area is what will be printed in plastic.

- make sure there are no floating black pieces in your design.

- when your design is ready change the image size to 500 pixels on the largest side.

- save your design as a flattened jpeg

- bring your image to Joe for translation into a .stl





Lets talk about your games, where are you at now?




Roleplaying; Creating characters in Dungeons and Dragons
- Talking about "Roles" in games. What role do players play in your game?
- Tracking Stats
- General to Specific?





Work on Project 3 and Learn the Rules Assignment