Day 10

Game day…

This wasn’t your typical game day that involved any form of footballs/basketballs/soccerballs or anything physical. These games involved boards, dice, little figures, and letters on blocks. It was a very productive day!

The main idea of today was to look at how some board games are played. Look at the purpose of the game, how is it played, how do people win, what's the symbolism. Board games are made for fun. What I realized playing the games today was that you can have a certain strategy for specific games, but that doesn’t always guaranty that you will win. For instance, take the game chutes and ladders, winning that game is completely lead to chance. It’s a simple concept, you roll the dice, depending the number you roll you move a certain number of spaces, if you land on a ladder you move up and if you land on a slide or chute you go back down. The first one to the top wins. What is the symbolism behind that game? Could it be good versus evil? Maybe in the older version of snakes and ladders due to what snakes tend to represent, which in this case would be evil. Ladders would be the good, meaning taking the high road. What do you think?

Each one of us had to bring a board game to class. I didn’t bring one due to the fact that I didn’t get a chance to get one. But there were plenty of other games to be played. They brought Clue, Monopoly, Scrabble, Life, Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders. I have to say, looking around the room and seeing all those game I realized that I was kind of deprived as a child. The only game that I had ever played was Monopoly. So I took advantage of all the other games and played the one I was the most curious about like Clue and Scrabble. I found Clue to be a very interesting game, once I understood how to play the game it was so much fun. The concept is a little difficult to explain so I won’t try. But the way to win is to figure out who done it. It’s a murder mystery game, by process of elimination and making rumors you figure who is the killer, where they did it and why.

The best part of today was that I learned something new. I learned how to play games that I never got the chance to play before. Our assignment for the weekend is to come up with ten different game ideas and sketch them out. Uhm, overwhelmed much? Lets see how I do, good luck guys! See you on Monday.