mcareaga’s Design Studio

Devlog

• Devlog Journal 14
  December 01, 2023 by mcareaga

  For class this week, we continued creating our board game for our final board game project. We decided to make a board game based on the cover art of the cartridge that we chose from a fake online gam... Continue reading
• Devlog Journal 13
  November 17, 2023 by mcareaga

  For class this week, we were asked to discuss and prototype the two best ideas we had for our board game project. The games we discussed were Cavern and Stargaze. We ultimately decided to focus our cr... Continue reading
• Devlog Journal 12
  November 10, 2023 by mcareaga

  In class this week, we were asked to play a certain board game so we could learn about the competitive nature of a board game. We were assigned to our respective groups. Our group was asked to play a... Continue reading
• Devlog Journal 9
  October 30, 2023 by mcareaga

  In class this week. We talked about game balance and asymmetry. We then played a game called Battle Battle to see how game balance and asymmetry worked within the game. Battle Battle is a game where w... Continue reading
• Devlog Journal 8
  October 21, 2023 by mcareaga

  In class this week, we were finishing up our card game project, As I said in my last devlog, I was assigned the playtest lead role of our card game Gotta G.O. I was playtesting our card game with new... Continue reading
• Devlog Journal 7
  October 09, 2023 by mcareaga

  In class this week, we learned about how people interact in making decisions in games. We were assigned our group to have ideas for a shedding card game we were to create at the end of last week. This... Continue reading
• Devlog Journal 6
  September 29, 2023 by mcareaga

  In class this week, we learned about the explicitness of games. We learned that the rules of games need to be explicit or direct and easy to understand when a player is introduced to a new game. We go... Continue reading
• Devlog Journal 5
  September 22, 2023 by mcareaga

  For class this week, we continued with our board game sport and were asked to meet up with our groups again. but this week, we were asked to polish and finalize our rules for the board games we made f... Continue reading
• Devlog Journal 4
  September 15, 2023 by mcareaga

  For this week, we went over thinking through games by watching the video " Making it Matter: Lessons from Real Sports (GDC 2013) " where Bennet Foddy explains how real-world sports solved risk and rew... Continue reading
• Devlog Journal 3
  September 08, 2023 by mcareaga

  This week in class, we discussed the six elements of game design: actions, goals, rules, objects, playspace, and players. We also discussed the 10 basic tools of game design: constraint, direct and in... Continue reading
• Devlog Journal 2
  September 01, 2023 by mcareaga

  For week 2 of our class we went over some folk games. For our exercise this week, we went into groups and were asked to pick a folk game from a website that contained a library of folk games. Before w... Continue reading
• Design Journal 1
  August 25, 2023 by mcareaga

  Hello! My name is Martin Careaga and I look forward to taking this class and meeting every single one of you! I am taking this class because I have heard from my advisor that this class was different... Continue reading