Commander Caveman

Devlog

• Week 15 - The Landlord Game
  December 05, 2022 by commandercaveman

  The landlord game was a game that aimed to simulate the accumulation of wealth and land grabbing as well as the consequences that come along with it. The game's creator Elizabeth Magie says it could'v... Continue reading
• Week 13 - UX and Board Games
  November 21, 2022 by commandercaveman

  It’s important that you cut the fat with the UX elements in your game. Not only in explaining your game, but players learning while playing can become overwhelmed when tons of aspects have varying a... Continue reading
• Week 12 - Transparency in Board Game Design
  November 13, 2022 by commandercaveman

  The game I watched a how to play video on was Challengers . The ways that Challengers maps to Johnson's notions of transparency are clear design setup. In this game before you begin there are variable... Continue reading
• Week 11 - Card Game Review
  November 07, 2022 by commandercaveman

  When we demoed Universal Monsters for our class we got a great response from them viewing us play. The questions that were asked were just trying to understand our mechanics rather than why is this pa... Continue reading
• Week 10 - Design Processes
  October 31, 2022 by commandercaveman

  My team’s processes for the creation of our card game are similar to Richard Garfield’s in that we took pieces of design from card games we enjoy and built upon them or changed them to fit the gam... Continue reading
• Week 09 - Analyzing Card Games
  October 23, 2022 by commandercaveman

  The first game I'll be analyzing was the in-class example I played — Fluxx. To set the scene, The play space can be really anywhere as long as there is a middle visible to all players, where the cur... Continue reading

  
• Week 07- Developing Social Deduction Games
  October 10, 2022 by commandercaveman

  Out of the ten tools listed by Macklin and Sharp I’d say the most important to this type of game is the direct and indirect interaction players have amongst each other. The major dynamic is informat... Continue reading
• Week 06- Social Deduction Games
  October 03, 2022 by commandercaveman

  Social deduction games force players to interact in hopes to exchange information, which can be used to either lead to the end goal or distract from it. Most social deduction games use roles to help t... Continue reading
• Week 05- Sports Videogames
  September 25, 2022 by commandercaveman

  Videogames inspired by traditional sports are some of the most casual friendly games on the market because of their pick-up and play nature. Most sports are so ingrained into a particular culture that... Continue reading

  
• Week 04 - Sports
  September 18, 2022 by commandercaveman

  Being absent Thursday I'm not sure if we were supposed to learn from a specific sport on Mr. Animate's channel, but I chose to learn about Club Throw. It is a sport that falls under the category of tr... Continue reading
• Week 03 - Design Choices
  September 11, 2022 by commandercaveman

  One of the six most relevant elements to our folk game was actions. Essentially, our entire game of Ninja Tag fusion is based on actions from each player and the reaction from the "it" player. While o... Continue reading
• Week 02 - Folk Games and The Playcentric Approach
  September 04, 2022 by commandercaveman

  Some things I found most interesting throughout the lessons this past week were... Folk games typically reflect the culture they're created in, meaning if you take a deeper look into the mechanics and... Continue reading
• Week 01 - A New Beginning
  September 01, 2022 by commandercaveman

  Well, there are a couple of reasons I am taking this course but for one it was highly recommended to me by friends who took it last semester during its first semester in existence. They told me about... Continue reading