Amabel's rulebooks are so good (I've read more than I've played lol), and of the few games of hers I've played so far (Eyelet & Field of the Cloth of Gold), so are the rules themselves.
New video essay! "Rules As Play: The Human Art of Writing, Learning, and Breaking Rules" explores what rules are, how they are taught, and how this shapes our interaction with games. youtu.be/VDjK1jX93yM
YouTube video by Mary & Amabel Holland
Watching this as I check emails and get settled in for the morning and doing my DAMNEDEST not to reshape my entire game design class (which meets in like ann hour) around this video. I already course prepped! I don’t need to give myself more work! (but it’s really good and I really want to)
New video essay! "Rules As Play: The Human Art of Writing, Learning, and Breaking Rules" explores what rules are, how they are taught, and how this shapes our interaction with games. youtu.be/VDjK1jX93yM
YouTube video by Mary & Amabel Holland
ICYMI - this is my best video essay to date. I think I am really finding my groove and voice within this form. If you watch it & dig it, please recommend it to others - "board game design philosophy" is not a niche the algorithm particularly loves.
New video essay! "Rules As Play: The Human Art of Writing, Learning, and Breaking Rules" explores what rules are, how they are taught, and how this shapes our interaction with games. youtu.be/VDjK1jX93yM
YouTube video by Mary & Amabel Holland
Hen Wen.
oh gosh
Yes, they were a big deal to me as a kid. Haven't revisited them though.
it's for dragon pizza I can't do a fantasy thing without an oracular pig
![[F] Oracular Pig
The players now look to the future, and see if they have gained possession of the Oracular Pig. Remove your discs from the map. The player who has the most Pigs places four of their discs into a cup. The player with the second most then places three discs. Third most, two; fourth most, one. A player must have at least one Pig to participate.
Randomize the discs and draw one. That player has the Oracular Pig, and scores 6 points. If you complain before the game is over that this determines the winner randomly, you are shunned as a heretic and lose 6 points. (So, don’t do that!)
Tally all these scores. The player with the most points, wins. Ties are resolved in favor of the tied player whose turn would have been next in turn order.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:m3bpbfbjtbiac4rkksbstkoj/bafkreihumfpiv33es32llxr5giirq2gzh2c7yvq7waujoosqhx2dz2ksaa@jpeg)
today, we're swinging our arms from side to side youtu.be/8O_7y0o67os
YouTube video by SB
January.