Friday was very busy. I did the grocery shopping in the morning. I picked up a couple of boxes of figs, since they seem to be in season at the moment and are fairly cheap. I’ll have some with honey later tonight for dessert… yum.
After that I had an ethics class, then went to my wife’s work to pick up Scully and bring her home for the rest of the day. Then after lunch I had the final lesson in the Creative Thinking and Game Design course with the girl I’ve been teaching that to for the past few weeks. She said she liked the idea of the game we were working on designing, but the theme was too much like Werewolf, and she said it was confusing her family who were getting it mixed up with that game. She I suggested some re-themes of the the same mechanics. I brainstormed a few with my friends and we came up with:
- Players work for different companies and try to recruit other players.
- Players are trying to spread different conspiracy theories. At the end one is proven false, and everyone who believes it loses. The only player who doesn’t believe it wins.
- Players are on different social media networks and get others to join their network. At the end, someone’s parents decide to join a network and everyone on that network loses.
- Players like different snack foods and get others to try them. They’re all tasty, so whoever tries one likes it. At the end, it is revealed that one of them is actually healthy, and everyone who likes that one loses.
We went through these ideas and how they would work, and she selected the social media one as her favourite. So this morning I worked on re-theming the game to do that. Some of the mechanics had to change a bit and it was quite a bit of work to get it into shape again. I finished just after lunch.
Back to yesterday, after the game design class I had three more ethics classes, which led into Friday online board games night with my friends, which was a good way to unwind and relax. We played a new game in Board Game Arena, called Rauha. It was fun and had a fair bit of strategy going on. Then we played some of the regular games like Kingdomino, 7 Wonders, and so on.
And back to today. This afternoon I worked on planning more future ethics classes, lining up classes for after a week’s break over Easter that I’m planning on taking. And then I wrote the lesson plan for next week’s class on Photography.
Which brings me to evening and time to check out for the night…
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