Game Mechanics Thread
Babylonthebride
52 regular playing cards + 20 (or so) action cards, to be increased if
we wish
The regular playing cards will not be cards of Boardies (so no
"Furious Card") though allusions to Llamas etc. are welcome.
In an "ideas for cards" thread we will also collect the ideas we come
up with or that have been posted on the board (like a "toilet card")
This thread is for deciding how the game is to be played and what
needs to be in it.
Babylonthebride
Fluxx, so here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxx
JP
and I talk, the more I think a Fluxx model is THE way to go. And it
might mean tossing out the standard deck idea and just focusing on the
Fluxx game play, but not necessarily.
Artguy Chuck
JP
I see a lot of options going with a Fluxx model, what I guess I'd like
to hear is that people like the idea enough for us to start working
out a WE version ... or take it in another direction. If you're
unfamiliar with Fluxx as I was, [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Fluxx]here is the wikipedia[/URL], [URL=http://
rabbits.continuation.org/wiki/Fluxx_1.0_Deck_Card_List]here's a list
of basic cards[/URL] to give you some idea of the variety of cards
available, and [URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=PcR0nSmoUsw&NR=1]here is a youtube tutorial[/URL] by the creator of
the game.
What I like about going this route:
1) The game variation is limitless, meaning that depending on how the
cards are played, you'll have a different game experience every time.
2) The types of cards - keepers, goals, actions, rules - could mesh
very well with a WE theme.
3) The cards are easily extensible, and different themed boosters can
be created at any time, and in any number of cards (e.g., a 5-card
robot pack).
4) Something like this should allow for infinite creativity and can
encompass many aspects of the Board.
Comments?
Babylonthebride
Been talking to JP about a possible course of action:
The intuitive angle to start planning would be with the Keeper Cards.
We round up all the tropes and WE stuff that screams to be in a card.
We are doing this anyway in the "ideas for cards" thread.
Then we begin to categorise them.
A lot of them will be good for keeper cards, but some will lend
themselves more to single action cards or goal cards.
Furious
the RED BALLOON card would need a THREAD (double meaning :p) and not
fare so well against a POKE
MODHAMMER beats TROLL, TROLL beats MEAT (heh), MEAT defies any LOGICAL
DISCUSSION, and the LOGICAL DISCUSSION can dissuade the MODHAMMER
CHEESE + CIGARETTES = LIBRARIAN ALIEN. i don't understand it either
but it does.
no one wants the LILY card. Ever.
AVOCADOS + CHEESE make a disturbing type of GUACAMOLE, and can terrify
other players into non-action
CHEESE + LLAMA = God. Yes it's that simple.
Count St.Pierre
based?
JP
card.
Furious
There's stuff on individual posters that will be slipped in. I
shudder at the thought of an ENGORGED NIPPLES card though.
JP
Furious
What was that character with the UPS hat that punk 'hated'?
JP
Furious
and Posting Drunk, and a Menstrual Hut, and Photos of People in
Strange Bathrooms, and Talking Like a Pirate (must be combined with
RUM card), and Hijacking the Deaths Thread, and Richard Simmons (the
card that spoils everything), and PIE.
Count St.Pierre
two things we need to start looking at-
a. we've had a bunch of really great card ideas so far. If we're
keeping close to the Fluxx model, they need to start being classified
in what category they belong (New rule, Action, Keeper, etc.)
b. we need to make sure cards can be played in a variety of ways, so
players don't get stuck with useless cards that can only be played in
conjunction with one specific other card. For example, if all the
Zombie Queen card does is control the zombie horde, and the horde was
played 5 turns before you get the Queen, you're stuck with it. There
could be exceptions if they make sense as part of the game, obviously,
but it shouldn't be more than a couple of cards.
JP
My thought was to start taking all of the ideas and putting them into
a spreadsheet. From there, take a first crack at categorizing them
into Keepers, Goals and Action cards (and maybe some will even work
for New Rules cards). We could do this a few different ways. I could
take a first crack and then get comment and discussion. Or two or
three others (I'm looking at P'fins, Count and Dweller) could also
take a crack at it and then we could see where we intersect and set
that, and then hash out the rest, then bring that draft back to the
group. Thoughts?
Count St.Pierre
I'll take a look at it, then we can compare notes and take it from
there.
(we need more contributors, damnit)
Furious
others you've mentioned, I'll take a look at the spreadsheet too.
Smaug
Smaug
spreadsheet ? its *not* as manipulative as excel, but should do for
what you need,t hen you can 'invite' others to the document. it's
what we use when we're pulling together The Project.
Count St.Pierre
shit up as I go along.
JP
spreadsheet.
JP
heh) shortly.