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Nice Games Jam: "Glom"

Episode 210 Published 5 years, 2 months ago
Description

This week your nice hosts have a rowdy game jam. Dale gave us a prompt: Create a matching game with a puzzle element. The puzzle must be "what matches first" and bonus points if there's cats.

The goal of every Nice Games Jam is for the team to come up with a playable game by the end of the episode. Did Stephen, Mark, and Ellen make it happen, or did they end up with a pile of nonsense? Well, maybe a bit of both.

Game type
Tabletop game
Player count
Any
Materials

Paper, pencil or pen

Setup

Each player should have:

  • Paper (or someplace to compose sentences)
  • Something to write with (typing on a screen is fine)
  • Some way of indicating points passed to other players (chips, coins, etc.) -- in the rules below, these will be referred to as "chips"

The game requires three decks. As of this airing, each deck has three cards:

  • Prompts deck
    • "Nice to meet you."
    • "Where is the bathroom?"
    • "Can I pet your cat?"
  • Constraints deck
    • No letter Es (this is incredibly difficult)
    • Exactly 4 words
    • Only single-syllable words
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