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Week 1: Out of My League
To be completely honest, during the first meeting of this class, I felt totally out of my league. Most of the people in the class have far more gaming knowledge and higher competency related to the course material. I was incredibly overwhelmed when we started out playing Avalon, but thankfully it wasn’t too far out…
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Avalon- First game of the semester!
In week one, We played the game Avalon. This game is based in the mythical and magical times of Merlin, Arthur, and Mordred. This game requires strategy and deceit. The strategy is easy to learn, and I am thankful that this was the first game we were introduced to in the class. The objective of…
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Poetic Entry
Anxiety. Dread. Panic. Three words described how I felt about taking this class. Why am I doing this to myself? Yes, I thrive from the energy of others. Yet, I am afraid. What will people think? Trouble, Scattergories, Candyland: three games that I love. What will people think? I am the observer. I am the…
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Avalon: Good vs Evil
This was the first meeting of our class and we started off by playing Avalon. We started playing the most basic version of the game in which there were generic good or bad characters. Every person is given a good or a bad character but does not tell anyone else. Each round a king has…
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Assignment: Game Written and Video Review
What a semester it has been! Teaching this class has been amazing. For me the worst part of a class is typically grading. This semester, however, it has been a treat, as the new assignments that students have submitted have wowed me. Some of the best have been watching students who came into the class…
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Ladies & Gentlemen
Ladies & Gentlemen. No, I’m not about to welcome you to a circus or a wrestling show or anything. The board game Ladies & Gentlemen (as I believe I’ve mentioned) is one of the games that spurred my desire to create this class. I knew we could have excellent conversations around the topic of leadership…
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How “Two Rooms and a Boom” Creates Obvious Leaders and Followers
This week in class, we played an awesome hidden role game called Two Rooms and a Boom, where there are two teams (red and blue) with two different objectives. There are also “gray” players who have individual objectives to win the game, regardless of the outcome of the red/blue battle. People are split into different…
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Secrets Hitler: “But we have a thing!”
We recently played the board game Secret Hitler which was both entertaining and extremely reliant on communication and logic. In the game, there are two factions who are either trying to elect “Hitler” as chancellor or to get him assassinated. The only players that know who anyone else is are the ones on the fascist…
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