From the Official Website:
How it works:One player is trapped in a virtual room with a ticking time bomb they must defuse. The other players are the “Experts” who must give the instructions to defuse the bomb by deciphering the information found in the bomb defusal manual. But there’s a catch: the experts can’t see the bomb, so everyone will need to talk it out – fast!
Features
Challenging puzzles that will test the limits of your communication skills… and friendships?
A different bomb every time! Procedurally generated puzzles keep the action fresh.
Local multiplayer party game – A great way to experience VR with all of your friends at the same time!
Virtual Reality supported, but not required. Play with a regular monitor!
Only one copy of the game needed! If you can talk to the bomb defuser, you can be their expert! Try using your favorite voice chat service and playing remotely.]]
Microbadge:
- Very interactive
- Great party game
- High replayability
- Fun and chaotic
- Bought for cheap
- Morse code module can be difficult and discouraging
- Replayability is limited to a point
- Bomb defusal scenario.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- app-driven — It's the the it's app dependent.
- communication — You talk the person through it.
- cooperative play — One person is the bomb diffuser and everybody else uses this manual to go through different modules that you have to to figure out how to walk the person who's diffusing the bomb through diffusing the bomb.
- Puzzle solving — you've got uh like uh codes and uh wires to cut and different different words to figure out and things like that.
- Real-Time — And you're on a timer. So, you've got to get this bomb diffused before the timer goes off or the bomb explodes.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Sigrada is a great game.
- It's an excellent game to illustrate the law of diminishing returns.
- It's a game that doesn't take itself too seriously.
- If you can get it today if especially if you're a young family with kids, this is a great great game to play with your kids.
- I I've said several times on this list that party games aren't my thing, but I actually have quite a few more party games on my on my list than I realized. This is a a party game that I would play before almost all the others.
- It's a game that is very adaptable to playing time that way because it's just, you know, the smaller the area, the less pieces you have also.
- It's clever. It's frustrating and sometimes you get to a point where you can't you can't play a card because you've said, 'Oh, I don't have these suits anymore.'
- If you're gonna make a game that has an app and you promise the app, then you better dang well keep up with it.
- This is the first edition. I wouldn't touch the second edition with a 10-ft pole.
- The art in this game is so good.
References (from this video)
- Really cool experience
- Freaky to use Oculus Rift
- Players tend to blow up
- defusing a bomb
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Cooperative — Players work together with one person describing the bomb and others using a manual to defuse it.
- Puzzle — The core gameplay involves solving puzzles to achieve the objective.
- VR — The game was played using an Oculus Rift for an immersive experience.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- The organizer mark hill has done a really really good job
- We got to use the oculus rift that was freaky
- strike was brought out it was on the table first thing it was awesome
- When I saw the board you see this big map you see these mechs I'm immediately thinking area control and a lot of head-to-head conflict and it didn't really play out like that
- the setup is forever
- it didn't give me a lie people said they gave him that rush of when they walked into the store and they ripped open a booster pack I did not feel
- Fantasy Flight Games basically lives off IP right now and everybody else did the original stuff
- Mega Moose Con's incredible they've already talked about trying to pick a date for next year
- There are brain-eating amoebas in the water
- I wonder on you that's the class says
- it's funny because you know how you go through that period or you're just like why haven't i played this in a while I want no dude I am totally the same way