Blog Post 3 - Formal Elements of a Playtested Game

 

The Rule Sheets which I playtested were Group 1’s rule sheet, Group 3’s rule sheet, Group 4’s rule sheet, and Group 7’s rule sheet. I will be listing the formal elements of Group 3’s rule sheet, Mario and Adam’s game called Cooking Ninja.

Players

• One on one game – player vs. player game structure

• Two Playstyles

• Going for high risk, high reward recipes

• Going for low risk, low reward recipes

Objectives

• The central objective of the game is to reach 20 points by baking different items that are assigned a point value based on how many ingredients they use and how risky they are to bake

Procedures

• The deck of ingredient cards are shuffled

• Both players draw six cards each to have in their hand

• The players each roll a die and whoever scores the highest number goes first 

• In a turn, the players can look at the recipe list and decide what to bake based on what ingredients they have. 

• If they can bake something, they must attempt to bake it. 

• If they cannot bake anything, they discard their entire hand and draw six new cards.

• The player now rolls the dice, and based on the number that they roll, the baking event will either be silent or loud.

• If the baking event is silent, they receive the points for baking the item.

• If the baking event is loud, they do not receive points.

• At the end of the turn, the player must draw enough cards from the draw pile so that they always have six cards by the end of a turn.

Rules

• Players are allowed to draw from the deck

• Players are allowed to play cards in certain combinations in order to bake items

• Players must roll the die when baking an item unless specified otherwise, such as in the case of baking Macarons

• There must be this many cards in each deck

• 10 Sugar

• 6 Eggs

• 6 Frosting

• 6 Milk

• 4 Sprinkles

• 4 Chocolate Chips

• The player must make their move within 15 seconds

• If no move is made within that time frame, their turn is passed on to the other player

• The player is only allowed to have a maximum of six cards in their hand

• There are a limited number of items which the player can bake with their ingredient cards.

• Chocolate Chip Cookies can be baked with Eggs, Sugar and Chocolate chips

• Cake can be baked with Eggs, Sugar, Milk, Frosting, and Sprinkles

• Macarons can be baked with Sugar and Eggs

• Cupcakes can be baked with Frosting and Sprinkles

• Chocolate Chip Pancakes can be baked with Chocolate chips, Milk, and Sugar

• Cinnamon Buns can be baked with Sugar, Frosting, and Milk

• As a general rule of thumb, baked items requiring higher amounts of ingredient cards offer the player more points

• However, they also have a higher chance of making noise, as opposed to low ingredient baked items that have lower chances of making noise

Resources

• There are two types of resources available to the player in this game

• Ingredient cards - these are used to craft into baked goods

• Points - these are gained by crafting ingredients into baked goods

Conflict

• The player must successfully roll the die and make no noise when baking

• If the player rolls the die and makes noise while baking, they will not receive points

Boundaries

• As there is no movement in the game, there are no technical player boundaries

• The player may not make up their own recipes to craft a baked item for points

Outcome

• One player wins by having more points than the other

• One player loses by having less points than the other