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Have you ever wondered who you would have been if your life had gone differently? How would you direct your life if everything were up to you? Maybe you would be a magician, or travel around the world? Or maybe big business tempts you, and your goal would be to earn a million dollars?
"CV" means curriculum vitae – your resume – and in the dice and card game CV, you will lead a character through his entire life, making many choices about friends, relations, jobs, and activities. Everything is possible: a dream job, new relationships, and skills. You can be whoever you want!
Gameplay is built around the Yahtzee-style dice rolling and re-rolling system. On their dice, players are trying to roll sets of symbols that allow them to acquire cards; each round, these cards give benefits of some kind, such as new symbols and special abilities. At the end of the game, each kind of card scores points for the player.
Year Published
2013
Transcript Analysis
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John Peris top_10_list at 7:37 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Thematic gameplay
- Simple yet engaging mechanics
- Life progression simulation
Cons
- Can cause analysis paralysis
- Longer playtime with more players
Thematic elements
- Personal life journey
- Life simulation
- Dice-based progression
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice rolling — Players roll dice to determine actions and opportunities
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- These are games I would love to take to a cabin in the woods and play by a fire, but I wouldn't save them from a fire.
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Actualol top_10_list at 4:39 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Surprisingly strong theme for a light game
- Engaging career, life and relationship arc
- Good balance of luck and strategy
Cons
- Some players may find the theme odd or misaligned with play
- Less direct interaction between players
Thematic elements
- Life goals, ambition, and relationships
- Life progression from childhood to raising a family
- humorous, light-hearted with serious ideas
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- dice luck — dice draw luck can help or hinder future choices
- hand management — use cards representing life events and manage luck to progress
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's a great short one to play with your partner
- the aim is to get rid of all of your cards
- This isn't a board game there isn't a board there are no cards there are no plastic or wooden pieces
- the feeling you get from solving a case it's even better than beating pandemic
- it's such a satisfying two-player game
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Board Game Co top_8_list at 4:37 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Highly accessible yet mechanically satisfying
- Directly mirrors Life's life-story concept
Cons
- Less familiar for players who only play mass-market games
Thematic elements
- personal story through professional life)
- life progression via careers/dice-cards tableau
- story told through dice rolls and cards
Comparison games
- Life
- Pursuit of Happiness
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card drafting / tableau building — Acquiring cards to shape the career path and story.
- dice rolling / dice drafting — Rolling dice to determine outcomes, jobs, and career progress.
- set collection / progression — Assembling a sequence of jobs and achievements to tell a story.
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Quotes (from this video)
- it's literally just about the journey that you're on.
- you are simply moving along a track.
- you craft a story.
- This is a story of your villagers of how they're going to go around collecting the things you need as you try to find the various ways to find victory points.
- you are telling your story, but you're doing so with dice rolls and cards
- it's incredibly accessible
- you are going to lend itself to full fantasy over here
- you are trying to set up all these marriages to try to get these various people into your family
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