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Creating a Rule Book for Miami’s Swing Syndicate
For Tabletop Games and Leadership, one of the assignments is to create a rule book based on the rules of a Miami University organization you are a member of. Being the president of Swing Syndicate, I decided to create our rule book.
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Game Review: Azul
I decided to review the board game Azul by Michael Kiesling. This game is for 2-4 players with around a 30-45 minute play time. There are two different versions you can play, and you simply flip your board for the other one. Side A, you have specified places for the color tiles to go…
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The RPG Version of Myself
I created an RPG version of myself. I don’t have a lot of fancy powers, but its more true to who I am in the real world. This build is focused on the leadership skills I have and my goals. I would love to make a fantasy version of myself later.
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What Type of Gamer am I?
When I took the assessment, I learned that my motivation profile is low conflict, immersed, and gregarious. I had 4% conflict, 88% social manipulation, 50% strategy, 38% discovery, 22% need to win, 98% immersion, 92% aesthetics, 74% social fun, 89% cooperation, 12% chance, and 50% accessibility. Some of these I am surprised by and others,…
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Original Game – Quartet Kings
Quartet Kings by Justice Hubbard and Sam Belkowitz Introduction: Quartet Kings is a 4 player strategy game. Players represent rival gangs/factions. Each player begins with 15 movable pieces. Players can use their pieces to remove other players’ pieces from the game by landing on the same space as them. The game is won when a player…
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GOTW – Survive: Escape from Atlantis – Belkowitz
During Week 5 of EDL290T, our class played Survive: Escape from Atlantis. Of the games we played in-person, this was probably my favorite game. Atlantis is a well-known city that supposedly sunk into the ocean. In this game, the board is an ocean with land in its four corners. Island tiles are placed in the…
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Representation in Games
As I play many games, board and video games being great examples, I often think to myself, “does this game adequately represent different identities?”. More often than not, I think that games do not adequately represent multiple different identities. This is a problem in many ways. For the purpose of this assignment, I defined for…
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Which Mario Character Are You Similar To?
One of the intriguing assignments in Miami University’s course, EDL290T, Tabletop Games and Leadership, is to create an interactive quiz on Buzzfeed. Buzzfeed is a media and entertainment known well for the creative personality quizzes which users can create and publish on the platform. For the course, EDL290T, I created a Buzzfeed quiz involving questions…
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Gaming Event Reflection
Recon: A Reflection For this assignment, I chose to attend Recon, a convention put together by Miami University’s league of geeks. At first, I was skeptical that I would enjoy this event- I have never been very active in the league of geeks and worried that because I didn’t know anybody, it would not end…
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What Type of Gamer Am I?
For the course, EDL290T, I took an assessment. This assessment analyzed my opinions about different kinds of games. This assessment took into consideration what makes me interested in a game. This involved myself answering prompts about how things such as design, theme, goal, gameplay, and more affect my interest in a game. The results…
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