Tabletop Leadership

Time Stories is a game where you and a group of people go back in time and try and solve a puzzle to avoid a “temporal rift” (at least I think that was the term). I thought I was going to hate this game because I generally hate games that heavily on storytelling or immersion.…

Review She Kills Monsters is a play by Qui Nguyen and was directed by Bridget Leak at Miami University. The play centers on the character Agnes after her whole family dies in a terrible car accident. After the accident Agnes is plagued by her idea that she never really got to learn about her younger…

This week we played Smallworld. Smallworld is a game Ryan brought in that focuses on turn-based strategy and resource management. The hardest part about the game for me was probably determining what the correct strategy was given how there was no clear better race to start as at least at the start. As we played…

I think I really liked Captain Sonar. Even if the first few games were somewhat incredibly frustrating. It was still fun the last game where I felt like I could finally have confidence in my crew on what was actually happening because we finally knew the rules well. I played as the captain the whole…

Two Rooms and a Boom Reflection            This game was very odd for me. I did not really see the fun in it when I saw the video describing it and I did not find the fun when I played it either. The hardest part was the whole feeling of futility and helplessness I felt…

This week we presented our game design ideas. My game was Darkest Seas and I really like the idea of it. I was really encouraged by the notes and suggestions that our professors had on the game as well as with the suggestions they had as to what games we could play to get ideas…

This week we played the game Ladies and Gentlemen. This game places you into teams of two and has a very sort of endearing way of encouraging you to roleplay during the game. By often having the opposite gender roles on each side of the team, it is intentionally paradoxical, and funny how disregarding it…

This week’s game was great fun. Me and Samantha had a great time messing around and creating our own rules. The hardest part this time was probably staying serious. That may not necessarily be a bad thing because I think I enjoyed this game much more than many of the others. We started off following…

This week we played Mysterium a relatively abstract game where you play as either a psychic murder investigator or a ghost who sends dreams to the investigators in order to help them determine the circumstances of the murder. The hardest part was I think the whole point of the game, trying to figure out what…

The hardest part of the game was probably the somewhat ambiguous interpretation of the rules at times. This isn’t an insurmountable challenge but one has to wonder if the designers encountered this issue in playtesting. The game has some ties to leadership with the group who does not become traitors. They in all cases need…