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APR Game Tournament / Culmination

Culminating Tournament Play-By-Play

1st 5 minutes of class: 

Time to set up your game and make sure your Rules are written clearly

Move to different games - 30 minutes

Read the rules and figure out how to play the game in front of you - if you finish early, your group gets to come up with alternative/additional rules to make the game more challenging

*in smaller classes (5 or fewer games) have each group do alternative rules - add 2 to 5 minutes for this portion

Entire group moves to a new game once 5 minutes are up - continue till most of the games are sampled - 6 games max for time to process. Once this portion is finished, groups head back to their own games for the final part of our session.

Final Round - 10 minutes

Questions each team must answer to select their snack prizes:

1. Name 1 thing that you love about your game and 1 thing you would do differently next time.

2. Name 1 thing you enjoyed about this program and 1 thing that didn't work for you

3. Name something you would have liked to do that we didn't get to?

Game Design 3+4 @APR Making it in Real Time

Day 3 Process:

With the materials provided, everyone works together in their group to begin laying out the structure of the game and its environment. Use construction paper shapes to help cover your board and create structure quickly - once the main structures are laid out, then more sophisticated details can be added. 

***Remember, playability is more important then your game being pretty***

Here is the teaching artists + admin team's version after 1 @45 minute session:

Here you can see details starting to be added, and the next layer of clarity about how to play the game being added as well. There are now clear spaces, distinct moods for each world and an X marks the spot where players pick up essential life experiences they will need before they can enter the NYC floating in the middle (where we all came from, and where we all have met).

Detail shots of each world:

Day 4 Process:

Game pieces, cards, dice etc will be available to give your games a test drive - all final details need to be worked out and a page of rules must be finished for us to begin playing your games without you for our culminating session next week.