Pool Party

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Blob formation — Players merge into shared groups (blobs) based on matching answers.
• word association — Players write down words based on prompts and try to match responses with others.

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Quotes (from this video)

• You want games for a party where nobody plays games? You need something you can teach in 30 seconds that plays a lot of people that is very social and doesn't take long to play.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Cooperative — Goal is to 'blob together' by writing down the same clues.
• Party Game — Relies on social interaction and shared understanding.
• word association — Players write down clues to words on cards.

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Quotes (from this video)

• games don't need no necessarily need a huge art budget to be a great game.
• I think this is one way for some games, not every game, but some games to really shine with a much lower sunk cost budget than other games.
• You don't need necessarily a bunch bunch of fancy components, dozens and do dozens of illustrations to have a really great game.
• We can all have slightly different definitions of this.
• It all leads to subtle and interesting choices.
• When everything feels like it's on fire around me, it's nice to find a bit of rest by respit in a gentle rain.
• This game is a chaotic good time, but in the best way.
• the components fit into a small box. They're they're very sparse components.
• But uh but they come across they end up having a fairly big table presence and I've gotten a lot of replayability out of multiple oint games.
• you can get a lot out of these games that rely on a wide variety of rules of words just by having words in the game. You don't necess you don't need
• By this I mean games with minimal components and or art.
• I think it's a great reminder for me and maybe you as a designer that games don't need no necessarily need a huge art budget to be a great game.
• So I think this is one way for some games, not every game, but some games to really shine with a much lower sunk cost budget than other games.
• there's a huge emergent narrative that comes through in Rumble Nation with very minimalistic components.
• I kind of thought of it as a combination of all those different things with some variances.
• investing in a really beautiful box cover is really really important for the game and investing in great graphic design is really really important for the game.
• I think valuing and investing in great graphic design is can can elevate a game even when you don't have much of an art budget at all.

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