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Betrayal at House on the Hill
Betrayal at House on the Hill is a game that I have played many times over the past several years, and keep coming back to due to its massive creativity. It feels completely unlike any game I’ve ever played before, which is both a positive and a negative. The nature of starting as a team…
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Silence and Leadership in Hanabi – Week 2 Game Review
Hanabi is a game seemingly tailor-made for my style of play. It grants everyone an equal level of importance, never pits players in opposition to one another, and encourages thinking about deeper topics such as language, communication, and leadership. Hanabi is a co-op game in which you and your table endeavor to create series of…
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Queen Games, Escape, & RECON!
A huge thank you to Queen Games! Last summer at Origins I met Travis from Queen Games and we started discussing the class. I showed him a list of games we used. His response: “I see a big problem with the games you have…none of ours are listed.” I told him I wanted to add…
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Wingspan and Leadership
As promised I’m going to occasionally review how games I’ve played tie in to learning and/or leadership development in one way or another. Some will have leadership demonstrated in game. Others will help improve skills that I feel are important to leadership. I suppose an example would be beneficial here. In Werewolf you will see…
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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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Week 3 – Betrayal
Last week we played Betrayal at House on the Hill. I like to explain Betrayal as D&D lite where you explore a haunted house with friends until one of you is overcome by evil and betrays the party. As this is one of my favorite games, I didn’t have any mechanical difficulty playing the game…
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Week 2: I’ve Been Shot! (and other exciting things from playing Secret Hitler)
For the second week in the row, I had the opportunity to play a secret role game. The name of the game is Secret Hitler, and similarly to lasts weeks game, Avalon, it involves good vs evil, or more specifically, Liberals vs. Fascists. At the beginning of the game, everyone is assigned a role and…
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Leadership in Hanabi
The game I played was Hanabi. This is a cooperative card game. The objective is to build a perfect, exciting fireworks display by placing the cards in order by different color. The cards range from 1 to 5 and must be placed in ascending order. Each player holds the cards away from himself or herself,…
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Game of the Week Blog #2
In class yesterday, we got to play two different games. One was called, Secret Hitler, and the other was called, Hanabi. Secret Hitler was another hidden-role game that had two teams pitted against each other. The point of Secret Hitler was if you were a Liberal, you were attempting to figure out who the other…
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