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Luck v Chance v Skill Reflection
When playing a game of any kind, whether it’s a board game, card game, or another game, there will always be different ways to win. Chance, luck, and skill in games come with many advantages and disadvantages. Depending on the type of game you are playing, there are so many different ways to win. The…
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Game Mechanics Research Paper: Dice Rolling
How do players actually interact with a game? To be able to take any action at all during a game, players have to use game mechanics. Game mechanics can be either abstract or concrete objects and are used to interact with the game world. The article, “Defining Game Mechanics”, by Miguel Sicart goes into depth…
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Movie Review: Accepted
The movie Accepted exemplifies many leadership qualities from various characters. The movie is about a high school student who did not focus on his grades and was doing poorly in school. When I came to apply to colleges and universities, he was denied admission to every single school. He was scared to admit to his…
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leadership’s Like a Game Reflection
Leadership is like a game in so many ways. There are many similarities between playing a game and your role in it compared to being a leader. In a game like werewolf, everything seems to be very collaborative. With time there are certain people that beg to speak up the most or start the ball…
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Material-Less Activity
What is the game: The game is called survivor. You can play with a minimum of 5 players and there is no maximum. Players will stand in a circle and one the count of three everyone will look up and point at random players in the circle. If two people are pointing at each other…
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What Type of Gamer am I?
After completing the quiz on what type of gamer I am, I found that my board game motivations are high conflict, relaxed, grounded, and gregarious. The quiz compared four different types of motivation, Conflict, Social Fun, Strategy, and Immersion. In regards to conflict, I scored 77% and 63% in social manipulation. This means that I…
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What is the best type of game for my leadership style
Quiz Link: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ostenbb/what-is-the-best-type-of-game-for-my-leadership-st-8azz2m6lnu When I was creating my quiz, I spent a lot of time researching different leadership styles and how they affect the things you enjoy, such as playing a game. When a person has an autocratic leadership style, they tend to want control over everything. Generally, an autocratic leader believes that they are…
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Sprocle Quiz – Can you pick the Leadership Ted Talk topics and the speakers?
Quiz Link: https://www.sporcle.com/games/ostenbb/leadership-ted-talk-topics-and-the-speakers When creating my quiz, I spent much time not only finding Ted Talks about leadership, but also Ted Talks that I found to be inspiring. I have chosen to create a quiz called “Can you pick the Leadership Ted Talk topics and the speakers?” which is about a select number of Ted…
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TIME stories
This past week we played TIME stories. At first this game was confusing, but got more fun over time. I like how we each had a character that we were playing. I like when we play games that are roleplay/board game. I also liked how the game was sort of a mystery. I liked how…
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Game of the week
This past week we played Mental Blocks. I had never heard of mental blocks and the packaging did not give much more insight. Nobody else in my group had heard of this game either. We each got a card with a shape we were supposed to make and a restriction card. We as a team…
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