Design Journal of Soul

Devlog

• Devlog #14
  December 01, 2023 by Soul

  This week we developed and started playtesting our board games. On Tuesday, we worked out the rules and how spaces and cards worked (this was also developed on Thursday). We were mainly trying to figu... Continue reading
• Devlog #13
  November 17, 2023 by Soul

  This week, we got assigned a new project to make a board game based off of game cartridges. Our group decided to do Runaways, the cartridge that looks as though there's a car driving away from police... Continue reading
• Devlog #10
  October 27, 2023 by Soul

  This week we started a new project, making our own asymmetrical battle game with a boss and character cards. It reminds me of Dungeons and Dragons, as well as Pokémon. Tuesday was spent coming up wit... Continue reading
• Devlog #9
  October 20, 2023 by Soul

  This week we played a game called Battle Battle and got our next project. Tuesday was mainly playing the game, and it reminded me of DnD (Dungeons and Dragons). We were tasked to make a modification t... Continue reading
• Devlog #8
  October 13, 2023 by Soul

  For this week, we playtested our card games before turning them in on Thursday. However, after doing the readings (and refreshing at the time I am writing this post) I recognized a few things that I d... Continue reading
• Devlog #7
  October 06, 2023 by Soul

  This week, we started designing card games based on the theme of travel. My group decided to make a game about taking photos of sights and tourist spots, but you have limited film and have no idea how... Continue reading
• Devlog #6
  September 29, 2023 by Soul

  On Tuesday, we divided into groups to play two different card games; one set of groups played a game called The Crew, while the other set played a game called Exploding Kittens. My group played Explod... Continue reading
• Devlog #5
  September 22, 2023 by Soul

  On Tuesday, we ran a final test of our sports related games. We used feedback from last Thursday to polish the game into what it was on Tuesday. This process was known as iterative design. The textboo... Continue reading
• Devlog #4
  September 15, 2023 by Soul

  For this week, we needed to make a sport into a board game. It sounded easy enough until having to figure out how to turn an active and moving sport into a sit down and play board game, and not use ma... Continue reading
• Devlog #3
  September 08, 2023 by Soul

  The levels of the player experience is what can make or break a game. It goes from the sensory layer (what the player sees, hears, and feels), the information layer (the data the player gathers), the... Continue reading
• Design Journal #2
  September 01, 2023 by Soul

  "Play thrives in spontaneity, fueled by imagination and colored by uncertainty" (Calleja, p. 1). Spontaneity can create some of the most played games in this day, from board games to games that just r... Continue reading
• Introduction
  August 25, 2023 by Soul

  Hello! I’m pretty excited about CMI 3377, better known as Designing For Play. I’m a big fan of video games, so when I saw this class I was pretty hyped. I didn’t know that it would be mainly abo... Continue reading