Hi dreamers,
I spent this week with the family of my girlfriend in another city, as usual. Christmas Holidays are always very funny and a way to disconnect my head a little. I don’t like to stop working on my projects but sometimes is a good thing.
Some years I was so busy that I decided to keep with me my old laptop to work even in Christmas days. Usually isn’t a good idea, because I don’t work well, I’m distracted and more interested in dinners.
This year I decide to focus only on family. I take with me a book and nothing else. So I started this big monster: The Ultimate history of video games Vol. 1 by Stefen Kent.
As I said in the previous post, I’m not so good with English and this book sometimes use uncommon words and is more difficult than other stories and programming books that I red in the past. But, anyway is so good.
I’ve yet saw the video games history in a documentary, but this book is very very deep and I need something like that to breath what industry really is.
At this moment I’m reading of Pong born.
Another very important thing of this week was my approach with board games.
Modifying Guess Who
I’m not a fan of board games and card games. I feel to wasting time playing that, but at same time I don’t feel the same when I playing video games. Is a bug of my mind I think. Anyway…
In Christmas days I received as a secret Santa’s gift a game, very popular here in Italy (but not in card format), called “Indovina chi?“. The Italian version of “Guess Who?“. Me and my girlfriend open it thinking about some type of variation of the original game with the classic plastic boards.
We was wrong. The game is exactly the same, but instead of plastic board there is only cards. We was a little disappointed and after a match I started to think what can I do to create another game with that cards. My mind started to work on it. I love the idea that I need to practice on game design and I must use every possibility that I have.
So, at the end, with the collaboration of my girlfriend, we tested a couple of version of different games and the second one was very good of our taste!
I explain to you the idea:
The game is composed by three identical packs of cards. The only distinguish element between the packs is the color of the back and the border of the front. Every card show the face of a man or a woman and his/her name.
In this variation every card of the first pack (yellow) is put on the table facing down creating a grid.
The other 2 packs are shuffled together and every player draw 5 cards. Then, the packs are divided in two separate decks facing down, one composed of red cards, and the other for the blue cards.
Players take turns in clockwise order around the table. A turn consists of:
- Drawing one card from one of the two decks (red or blue)
- Like in memory games, the player can flip a yellow card of the grid (showing it to everyone). If the player has in hand the same person in blue and red can take the yellow card from the table and put it in a separate pile.
The target of the game is to obtain the most possible yellow cards from the table. The game end when there is no more cards to draw.
If two or more players have the some amount of yellow card BUT they have in hand one or more couple of person in red and blue version they can continue to play without drawing, until one of them collect a yellow card.
The game end in a tie when there are more than a player with the same amount of yellow cards and no one has couple of person in hand.
I loved this kind of activity, maybe the next week I will spend more time with table games…
Seen you next week with #1493.
Thank you for your time.
