User:Thijshijsijsjss/Prototypes/With the Help of a Million Little Postcards

With the Help of a Million Little Postcards is a social card game in which (semi secret) sentences are formed and later read. There are 3 sets of 6 cards:

PART 1 -- event
- Thijs has just graduated
- Thijs has made a card game                                                (some photos go here)
- The new year has started
- Thijs's laptop's keyboard broke
- Thijs's wiki diary is under construction
- Thijs contemplates asking for help

PART 2 -- joining particle
- with the help of
- without the help of 
- by disregarding
- in spite of
- because of
- while running away from

PART 3 -- descriptive clause
- an alien spaceship looking for new specimen
- a curious soundtrack involving plotters
- Manetta's encouragement
- the ghosts living in the xpub studio
- a million little postcards 
- the totality of insecurities

With 2 players, it is played as follows:

1. Players take turns. There are 3 turns in total. A turn looks like this:
   1. The active player takes two cards from a yet unchosen set of cards and reads them. They place one card face up and one card face down.
   2. The other player then chooses one card, without reading the face down card, and places the chosen card in front of them. The card not chosen is placed in front of the active player.
   3. The roles then switch.
2. These steps are repeated. Then once more, so that every player has 3 cards in front of them.

Background

Over summer I had an idea of combining the bouquet-building card game Tussie Mussie with some form of poetry-building. On the first prototyping class of the year, Manetta challenged me to make something. So I figured I'd realise this idea in a very simple form.

Playtesting with Rosa Lacht om wat kaartjes. 'Een beetje zoals cards against humanity.'

Playtesting with Manetta Vroeg me of de kaartjes per se in de volgorde 1 2 3 gekozen moeten worden, en of ze per se de bovenste kaartjes moet pakken. Lacht ook om wat kaartjes. 3 opmerkingen: (1) The House of Dust, (2) als een 'ontwerper' een 'oplossing' gevonden voor haar uitdaging, (3) wat zijn stappen die gezet kunnen worden in de spelerervaring, i.h.b. de stakes? We spelen de kaarten op.

Playtesting with Alessia and Lorenzo L: 'Similar to cards against humanity'. A: 'would be a good exercise to make cards for other people. I might make some for myself, too.' We play in a circle (T&A, A&L, L&T) until we're out of cards.