Our team had two very distinct ideas for developing a card game. One of our ideas was about the Hunger Game Universe. It involved the tributes from the various districts fighting and surviving the Hunger Games.
Our second game, which we chose to develop as our project, is a game with an investment theme. The game is meant to have the essence of poker.
The reason for our selection is the flaws of Hunger Games which involved disqualification and could become unfair. Plus through the process of majority vote we ended up choosing the investment game. We look forward to the next couple of weeks developing this game.
Our game proposal is below.
Our second game, which we chose to develop as our project, is a game with an investment theme. The game is meant to have the essence of poker.
The reason for our selection is the flaws of Hunger Games which involved disqualification and could become unfair. Plus through the process of majority vote we ended up choosing the investment game. We look forward to the next couple of weeks developing this game.
Our game proposal is below.
Game Proposal:
"The
name of our card game is called The Investment Game. The concept of the game is
that an investment company is trying to find out who the best employee is
depending on who makes the most profit. The winning employee will have the most
amount of money at the end of the game, after the players go through several
rounds of plays that require tactic. The game is most suited towards 3 to 5
players per game. Although the card game will rely on some luck as the cards
are randomly distributed to players, it requires strategy to actually win the
game.
The material for this game will require
two different sets of cards. One set of cards will be composed of chance cards.
These cards are called chance cards because they have the power to change or
even overturn the game. The cards will allow players to exchange money or even
reduce a player’s money by half. However, there may be some chance cards that
act negatively upon the player using the card. Therefore, the players must be
careful not to rely on the chance cards, but to be strategic with their regular
plays. The other set of cards are called management cards. These cards
represent the activities that the investment companies perform, and each activity
will have a different color with numbers written from 0 to 7. There are five
types of activities under tax, investment, income, expenses, and loans. The tax
cards (red) force players to pay a certain amount of their money to the
government. The investment cards (blue) require a player to lose some money
during the player’s turn. However, the player will gain twice as much after
three turns. Income cards (white) are immediate gains of money while expense
cards (black) are immediate losses. Loan cards (yellow) make players lose money
for two turns, but they will get the same amount back after two turns. Players
will consider their options among these five types of management cards and will
need to choose the cards carefully in order to win.
All the players in the game will receive the same amount
of the money at the beginning. The goal is to get the most amount of money when
the game ends. The game will begin once the players are randomly distributed five
management cards. They will decide what cards to use and put the cards faced
down on the desk. After all the players choose their cards, they will flip the
cards and compare them. The player with the highest number card wins the round
and the other players need to perform the same activity of the highest number
card, according to the number on their chosen card. For the attack cards such
as tax and expenses, even though the winner has the highest number, it is a
loss for the winner. In this case, the numbers will be reversed. For example,
the highest number will get the lowest number and so on. If there is a tie
between the highest numbers, the player who has the lowest amount of money at
the turn will win that round. The bank will control the money and distribute it
to the players after each turn. All players except the winner are allowed to
take an additional management card from the deck before the next turn begins.
The chance card is only available to one person each turn, and the turns run as
clockwise. Players will either pay a certain fixed amount of money or skip
their chance to use the chance card. The game ends when the all the cards from
the deck are gone. The most crucial tactic for this game will be counting what
other players put and predict what number or color should the player choose in
order to win. The player might choose to attack the other players or try to
maximize their own profit. Also, players might intentionally use lower number
cards in order to minimize losses. In order to win the game, it is crucial to
use the cards wisely depending on how much money and cards the players have in
their hands."
-Omair Siddiqui
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