I'm designing a card game for exploring urban places. It's 80% complete, and I'm looking for help with some fresh new ideas for ways to navigate urban environments, interact with people and places, and learn about yourself and your friends by doing so.
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But don't worry, you don't need to do that to play.
All you need for a valid entry is text:
Title: _____________ Description: _____________
To suggest a card, you'll need to understand the game a little more. Here are examples of Atlas cards we've all ready designed that are really fun:
What is Atlas?
Atlas is a card game for exploring urban places. It takes you to places you would have never found on your own, it gets you lost in places you thought you knew, and it encourages you to interact with the urban environment and the people in it in fun new ways.
Throughout the game, you map your experiences, and you get some fun ideas for reshaping your relationship to the cities you visit and the cities you call home.
At the end of each game, the players have made a map of what they did. This unique representation of the players' imaginations and their adventures is what really makes Atlas special:
How do you Play Atlas?
2-3 people play on a team together in an urban environment. The Navigator selects a card, the group does what the card says, then the Cartographer draws what everyone did on a map. Once a complete turn has been recorded, players switch roles.
Some cards tell you how to move about in the city, some tell you how to interact with a stranger. Some cards have you perform an activity, find something in particular, or interact with the urban environment in different ways. More examples of fun cards:
CONTEST RULES
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A qualifying entry will have both a card title and a description.
Title: _____________ Description: _____________
I will select up to 3 winners who have come up with card ideas I like the most, so read about what makes a good card below for the best chance to win.
- For 1 winner, that person gets 100% SBD generated by this post.
- For 2 winners, first gets 66% and second gets 33%.
- For 3, 1st gets 50%, 2nd gets 30%, and 3rd gets 20%.
You may submit as many entries as you like. You might even get multiple prizes. Entries for this round are closed when the rewards for this post close.
What makes a good card?
Atlas is all about encouraging people to explore urban environments while being present with their imaginations, emotions, and social selves in unfamiliar, fun and creative ways. We want it to be playable in any city in the world.
Atlas is meant to encourage people to explore their own ranges of comfort and discomfort. Cards that offer opportunities to do this are great, especially ones that can be interpreted and played differently by people with different comfort ranges.
We want this game to be accessible to a lot of people, not just the most adventurous. Cards that are too scary or ridiculous or take people out of their experience of playing the game are not good cards.
While a card might offer room for interpretation, the directions should be clear, not confusing. We don't want the thought "What am I supposed to do?" to take players out of the game.
We like cards that encourage people to be aware of their bodies, their feelings, and how each are effected by the urban environment. We don't like cards that rely on players interacting with their technologies, like smartphones, though we do like cards that draw players' awareness to the way that technologies influence their experience of traveling about.
We like clever titles. Descriptions should be as short as possible as they have to be fit onto a printed card.
Whew. Thanks for reading! Hope you have fun with this!
jared
PS the first image is Atlas of Friendship, a painting by Richie Rhombus, who is co-creating the Atlas card game with me.