Nuko
Group 20 (Alexandra Valencia and Cameron Wetzel Hillman)
The asymmetrical battle game, between the lawful United Nations and evil Villain. The villain seeks to bring four nuclear components to their secret bases scattered across the globe by way of shipping, smuggling, and bribing their way through trade routes. The UN must delay the Villain by blocking, searching, and disrupting those trade routes long enough for the Villain to run out of money and shut the operation down. It is played by way of placing and playing cards along with moving pieces towards specific goal spaces. This game is intended for strategy game enthusiasts in their 30's.
Alexandra accomplished many tasks. She created the game board, printing out the map and attaching it to a board along with a plastic portion for writing with a dry erase marker.. She also printed out the final version of the game cards and pasted them to note cards to provide additional strength and survivability. I (Cameron) worked to design the board's layout, as well as the game's functions and various types of cards. Alexandra certainly did the brunt of labor towards creating the final game.
During playtesting, it was very difficult to get players to understand how the game was played. Only two actual playtests were done, as it took too long for the two players per game to get in flow. More playtests were done between the designers than anyone else.
In addition to those problems, the general rules had to be changed several times in order to rebalance and make the game actually fun.
Outside of playtesting, an issue I noticed was how there was little communication between I and Alexandra, due to limited class time interaction, and that she lives elsewhere which made scheduling work time together not possible.
For the future, I would certainly appreciate having more group members and easier contact, not to mention being able to work more than 4 hours a week in the same room. Me personally, only having one person to work with is unreasonable, even with such a small scale project.
