Tuesday, February 19, 2013

by D. Jordan


        Last class when we met our group discovered a fairly big problem. Our game was too simple and it honestly was not very much fun. We all had different views and ideas and there was just not enough class time to figure out the best way to go about our game. So during the week our group met up on College Ave and decided that we had to find some main things out first.

The first thing in our opinion was how to make it more fun. The best way we thought about doing this is making this card game based off a show and renaming it to Top Chef Desserts. We are trying to make the players feel like they are contestants on this show and are actually competing to make the best dishes. By this the players can also strategize on what they want to make. Now you can either make ice cream for 3 points, or you can wait the extra turn in hopes of choosing a chocolate card for an addition point. This also makes the game a little more complex, but still simple enough to learn quickly. 

We decided that each player will start off with 9 cards; 6 ingredient cards and 3 dish cards. From there each player will be choosing an action card (basic mechanic) every turn. These action cards are anything from trading ingredients with an opponent to taking any discarded card. We believe these action cards will make players more caution and also make the game more exciting and challenging.





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          To win the game we decided that you need a total of 15 points to win, number of dishes does not matter. So far the dishes we have decided to go with are: ice cream, brownies, chocolate cake, cheese cake, apple pie, cherry pie, and muffins.  The cool thing about some of these dishes is that if you add an extra ingredient to them you can get additional points. Currently we have all the cards we will be using planned out and are just figuring the appropriate number for each card. We are confident that now our game is ready to be played and that most of our problems have been solved. 



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