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Game of the Week Blog Reflection (For Class on 3/10/2022): Two Rooms and a Boom
Very recently, our class got together to play Two Rooms and a Boom and discuss just what it has to do with Leadership. Two Rooms and a Boom is a hidden role game where the players are split into two teams, the red team and the blue team, based upon the role card they were…
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Representation in Games
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Game of the Week Blog Reflection 5: Fiasco Week 2
In class we played Fiasco two weeks in a row. For the second week we played from the Tilt to the Aftermath. The hardest part for me was that I had never played a role-playing game before. I tend to be more shy around people I don’t know and it was hard for me to…
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Game of the Week Blog Reflection (For Class on 3/3/2022): Mental Blocks
During this past week, our class got together to play two games, Mental Blocks and Survive! Escape from Atlantis. Each of us were allowed to choose which game we wanted to play, with the option to even play both of them if we had enough time. Personally, I chose to play Mental Blocks, a cooperative…
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Attend & Reflect on a Campus Gaming Event
RECON Reflection This past weekend, March 4th through 6th, we (Junyan Li, Ian Larson, Yuxuan Wang) attended RECON, the League of Geek’s annual convention at Armstrong Student Center. The League of Geeks is an organization consisting of 19 individual clubs who mutually promote, collaborate, and support each other. Once a year, all of the…
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Mental Blocks
My game of choice this week is Mental Blocks. This is a building block game that requires teamwork to complete. There are six people on our team and the goal is to complete the required image structure within the stipulated time. I think it’s very interesting that each member of the team can only get…
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Game of the Week Blog Reflection (For Class on 2/24/2022): Fiasco Week 2
Recently, our class got together to finish our existing sessions of the Fiasco Role Playing Game that we had started the week prior. The Fiasco RPG System is designed with the intent of creating chaos for the players to react to and incorporate into their stories. In this session, rather than creating characters once again,…
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My Brief Mind-Boggling Memoir ‘Bout Mental Blocks
This week, I returned to the cooperative genre of board games with the game Mental Blocks. A group of 2 to 9 players (we played with 6) each has a card that only they can see showing either a sideview of colored blocks or a black-and-white view of a corner of a structure, then they…
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Survive-Escape From Atlantis, a Whirlpool of a Game
This week we played Survive- Escape From Atlantis and overall, I enjoyed this game. The game itself is very simple and I like that it implements so many aspects of other games into it, such as Battleship and Sorry. Getting started with the game was difficult at first because of the different elements to the…
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Game of the Week Blog Reflection 4: Fiasco Week 1
In class we played Fiasco two weeks in a row. For the first week we played up until the tilt. The hardest part for me was that I had never played a role-playing game before. I tend to be more shy around people I don’t know and it was hard for me to start scenes…
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