Party time?
October 17, 2021
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As I mentioned yesterday, inspiration can be a wild and unpredictable stimulus. There's no predicting it. The trick seems to be using that unpredictable process to move forward in a rational and methodical way.
In fact, earlier that very day, I had been struck with such inspiration — twice in less than a month! — and had to write out the rules to what's looking to be my very first
party game ↗.
Most of the party games I've seen lately involve filling in blanks from a hand of cards in your hand, usually filling in sentences, and very few games in general seem to focus on the concept of logic in a fun or humorous way.
So to that end, I've put together a rough draft (I call these α0, read "alpha zero") of the game to playtest on our weekly game night on Wednesday.
The basic idea is that you deal object cards (orange) and property cards (pink) to form two statements, like you see above. In this case, you have the statements "The dog can be folded." and "The dog is flammable.". These are the premises of a syllogism ↗ that the players must complete by writing a conclusion, such as "The dog is made of paper.". Players vote as a group for the winning conclusion, and its author gets a point. First to five points (or just the most when someone has to go home) wins!
Conceptually this seems pretty simple and fun, but the real measure of that will come when I have a chance to playtest this on Wednesday. More updates to come!
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