Card Game Proposal

Hello,

       My name is Ruchi Shah and I was the team leader of my group for this past week. This week we talked about all the different criterion that our card game should and shouldn't game. As a class we also played Citadels and discussed the theme and mechanics of the game. This gave us a better sense of direction of the different types of card games that are out there. This week my team and I shared our very interesting and different potential card game proposals. We narrowed it down to two games and based on some of the criteria we discussed in class, we chose Ayesha's game called "Battle to Safety" as our game to make. The goal and parameter of "Battle to Safety" is to reach the safety zone first by reaching a score of 30 points by matching colors and shapes.
       The game is designed for 2-4 players and is based on many different stories and movies such as Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, Lion King and Ice Age. During the whole game you have to draw cards. Some cards have negative numbers and some have  positive numbers. The main problem we had in our group was that we couldn't decide how many positive and negative numbers to have in the deck. We need to decide on a certain number of each card because when the players draw cards, the points eventually need to add up to 30. Another problem we had was that Ayesha's proposal originally stated that the points should add up to 60 to win. But after thinking about it and realizing how long it would take for a player to reach 60, we decided as a group to change it to 30 points. So far this is all  that we have discussed in our group and hopefully by next week we can come up with some great solutions.

-Ruchi Shah