Week 13: Healthy Games - Season Salad

   

Name of the Game: Season Salad

Number of Players: 3-8

Time to Play: 10-15 minutes

Objective: Get rid of all your cards.

Setup:

1. Shuffle the deck
2. Deal the cards evenly between all players

Rules

1. Before the game begins, players can claim pairs by putting them face up or face down on the table.
• A pair consists of a season and a corresponding fruit during that season.
2. Once gameplay has begun, players take turns in a clockwise direction, taking a random card from the player on their right, one at a time. 
• If they have a pair when they take a random card, they put it face down and play continues.
3. The player with the Ice Cream card at the end is the loser.

This game was inspired by the Victorian card game Old Maid.

Week 12: Prototype 3 - Moves Like Khan

Name of the Game: Moves Like Khan

Number of Players: 3 - unlimited

Playtime: Variable 

Goal of the Game: To recreate the dance moves and loosen up.

Setup:

1. Find a place with a lot of space
2. Compile a list of your favorite Bollywood music
3. Choose one person who is familiar with the moves to be a judge
• The judge should demonstrate each dance move if the players don't know them already.
4. Place the deck of cards on a flat surface, with enough room to spread them out.

Rules:

• Designate one person to be the judge
• The judge decides if a person is performing a move correctly
• The judge shuffles the cards and places them on a table
• Start playing the music
• Players take turns drawing the dance cards, and then proceed to perform the move indicated on the card 
• They must perform each move for the equivalent of 2 musical bars, which is about 8 beats or once times on every other beat (which is about 4 seconds total)
• The cards build up like a train and successive players must perform all previous moves in the order drawn, up to a maximum of 5 moves
• Once the train reaches 5 moves, the player reshuffles the oldest move back into the deck and draws a new one, always maintaining a maximum of 5 moves at one time
• When the players decide the game is over, the judge announces the top 3 dancers

Design

This week we had to create a party game similar to games like Taboo and Charades. Our game had to include dancing and had to capture the essence of Chaiyya Chaiyya, and scene in the Bollywood hit Dil Se.

Party games are generally games that can be played with a large number of people. The main idea is that all players are included and can actively participate in the game. Social and physical interaction are the main aspects to party games.

Most board games would not make good party games, the reason being that most board games have an end goal and are limited in their number of players. Another issue with board games is that most board games have a losing condition for each player. Once that player is eliminated they usually resort to being a spectator or walk away from the players still currently playing. In a party game it is probably best to keep everyone included in some way.

The idea for our party game is that it is more suited to be and icebreaker game at parties or camps. It will take players out of their comfort zone while still having a good laugh together. 

We identified specific dance moves from the song that we wanted to use, named them, then designed the cards to have a sort of Bollywood feel. We named the game after the leading male actor, Shahrukh Khan.