What a clean port to a head-to-head play format AND to another dimension of asymmetric play. it seems like something that if you walk up on and you see people playing you’re like ‘okay what have you done to this game?’ and you like really interest them, and you know they walk right up to you and start asking ‘can I play? this looks really cool?’
But then also there is the other aspect where it’s not one game person writing all the stuff it’s two different people with two different pens on the same surface writing two different solutions to the same game, and I think that’s a notable, impressionable importance and very very very strong statement to make today so thank you for posting!
I also love how this design doesn’t stop there from being more than two people playing if you have two people up on the board writing letters and strokes they can still field the questions from away from them in the group which still functions here in a meaningful way and that’s also cool.
Thank you so much! Your comments really meant a lot to me.
And yes, it still lets more than two people play! That was a surprising revelation after trying it out on my 6th grade class, haha. Some of them took sides and tried to help out one of the players, and some tried to help both players out, all of which was fun.
In the end, though, I think it just looks complicated. My 6th grade class was able to play completely on their own after playing just one game with me, which really surprised me. Looks like I didn't actually make it complicated enough!
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What a clean port to a head-to-head play format AND to another dimension of asymmetric play. it seems like something that if you walk up on and you see people playing you’re like ‘okay what have you done to this game?’ and you like really interest them, and you know they walk right up to you and start asking ‘can I play? this looks really cool?’
But then also there is the other aspect where it’s not one game person writing all the stuff it’s two different people with two different pens on the same surface writing two different solutions to the same game, and I think that’s a notable, impressionable importance and very very very strong statement to make today so thank you for posting!
I also love how this design doesn’t stop there from being more than two people playing if you have two people up on the board writing letters and strokes they can still field the questions from away from them in the group which still functions here in a meaningful way and that’s also cool.
Thank you so much! Your comments really meant a lot to me.
And yes, it still lets more than two people play! That was a surprising revelation after trying it out on my 6th grade class, haha. Some of them took sides and tried to help out one of the players, and some tried to help both players out, all of which was fun.
Really clever idea, though it is relatively complicated for a pen-and-paper game (a fate which my game likely suffers as well, haha).
I was going for complicated, so I'm glad to hear it!
In the end, though, I think it just looks complicated. My 6th grade class was able to play completely on their own after playing just one game with me, which really surprised me. Looks like I didn't actually make it complicated enough!
I need to go check your game out now!
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oops! my bad. should be fixed now!