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Week 2- Hanabi
This week for class, we played the cooperative card game Hanabi. One of the most captivating parts about this game was how none of the people playing knew which cards were in their hand. In a solitaire like fashion, the goal was to play cards of a certain suit (in this case color) in order,…
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Week 1- The Resistance Avalon
Much to my delight, the first class of the semester started off strong with playing The Resistance Avalon, a game which I had played once or twice before, but enjoyed greatly. The first game that my group had started with the most basic setting – most players were designated as standard servants of King Arthur…
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Week 1 – Avalon Reflection
For our very first class this semester we played Avalon! This secret identity game was played both in a vanilla version where there were simply the good guys (AKA Merlin’s and King Arthur’s homies) vs the bad guys (aka the minions of Mordred), as well as a more complex version with roles within the teams.…
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Origins Game Fair 2018 and Roll Player
As I mentioned in our last blog I recently attended Origins 2018. I attended this with the mindset less about me personally this year but much more about how I could use this opportunity both for the EDL 290T class as well as for the various student organizations I work with. We have made several…
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Origins Game Fair 2018 and The Mind
I have been attending Origins Game Fair this year with several students-three of which have taken the class (one of those, John, is teaching with me this spring) and one who taught the class with Aidyn this spring. While we are primarily attending simply because we love games, as I mentioned in an earlier post…
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Games in Schools and Libraries Podcast
This is going to be the most casual, conversational blog I write most likely. Just because…well…I am blown away. I won’t lie…in 2012 when I had the idea for this class after attending the NASAGA conference (which you should absolutely attend this October) it was little more than a dream I thought was a cool idea.…
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Who’s Hitler?
For the second week of class, we played Secret Hitler. Much like Avalon last week. Secret Hitler is also a hidden role game pitting liberals against Hitler and his fascists in a bid to get their party’s policies through government. Having previous experience with this game, the hardest part for me was trying to lead…
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Choose Your Own Adventure – The Day Hike
Hello world! I just finished up this choose your own adventure story using Twine. Twine is a really cool tool for building choose your own adventure stories, or even for building simple games. A little programing skill goes a long way, but it by no means necessary with this tool. Anyway, I hope you guys…
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Week 9 – Sonar
Last week we played Captain Sonar, a quick and loud game. Two teams of four face off in a submarine hunt, with each member filling a different role. This game was fairly challenging in that you need to be able to focus on not only your role but also what the rest of your team…
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Week 8 – Werewolf
We played Ultimate Werewolf this past week which is one of the classic hidden role games, up there with Mafia. The hardest part of this game was trying to read other players to figure out what team they were on. This ties to leadership with figuring out how to get people to trust you and…
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