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Week 3: Free for All at House on the Hill
This week, I got to try something completely different from games that I’ve played before. Betrayal at house on the hill starts out almost like a semi-cooperative game, everyone trying to explore and build the house, while also trying to build up their own stats for four different qualities. The house grows, events occur, omens…
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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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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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TIME Stories, a New Game Every Time!
Last week in class we played TIME Stories, an adventure game where teams work together to solve a certain mission. There are several different missions that can be purchased for TIME Stories, and each one is set in a different location with a different theme (we played the asylum mission in class). Each mission is…
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