Artists Statement:
For this game, I decided to combine two different games into one. I took the gambling aspects of poker and took all the moves of Brawlhalla and instead of betting money or currency you bet your moves and the person who wins gets to keep all his moves but the one who loses cannot use the moves that they bet at the match right after the finish the gambling aspect of this.
The meaning of this project is to symbolize strategy, patience, and luck. the way you can strategize by betting certain moves that you know that you will possibly not use in the match and not have to put at risk losing the game, at the same time applying the concept of psychology and luring your opponent during the betting phase and making him bet what you want him to lose. The symbol of patience is shown in both phases in the betting phase while waiting for that perfect chance to raise the stakes and make the match way riskier at the same time being able to get or a better profit or a bigger loss all f that is up to luck. Inside the game applying the concept of patience is shown as waiting for that perfect chance to use a certain move, which there might be the possibility depending on how the 1st phase went, that might be your only move left in your arsenal, just waiting to use it to try and win the match even in most dire situation. Now to apply the biggest symbol which is luck this one is shown everywhere in the project, the game of poker itself is mostly compromised of luck as you are willing to take a risk without knowing the outcome and hope that your luck is better than the rest of the players so that you can come out victorious. in the second phase of the game, it is compromised of your luck to see how well your opponent is playing and how you can take advantage on that department.
The biggest thing about this was also how to find a new way to have fun with a game that by playing it always the same way can turn out to start getting boring, so implementing this new way of playing can make the game feel refreshed and open a new world of possibilities, not just for this game but to many that chose to take this approach to games. At the end, I want this project to serve as inspiration for companies, the normal consumers, and just about everyone that plays games and sometimes gets tired of the way they are playing them, that there will be always a new way to play them and enjoy the games, the sky is the limit to how you chose to play them, everything is up to your imagination and creativity on how to have fun. This has been my point for this project, hope that it can inspire future projects in the days to come.
How it turned out:
The game turned out well as it played out perfectly as planned with my roommate we had a lot of stress with the poker aspect and the ones who lost got more serious than the ones who won leading sometimes to a case that the ones who lost won the match as they were not relaxed as the person who won. It was an interesting turn of events but it turned out well.
The second iteration turned out pretty interesting as one of the players had lost all of his unarmed moves but he was able to play so well that he was never unarmed and he won all of the matches, that goes to show even if you lost the gambling aspect the part of you that has skill will kick in to replace what you lost and will even the odds and maybe allow you to win.
Rules:
The rules for this game are plain and simple you have all your moves to bet, all of them have a set price, you would play this as if it were a normal game of poker, later on when the game of poker is done, the winner gets to keep all his moves and has no penalty within the game, the loser loses all the abilities that he bet and as such he cannot use them, if m he is deemed to lose this round, again if you win you keep all your bilities for the fight, if you lost you get punished and all the abilities you lost cannot be used during the fight.
Here is the chart of the prices for the game:
Brawlhalla prices – Poker
- No weapon – all $5
- Light attack
- Heavy attack
- Light jump
- Heavy jump
- Light side
- Heavy side
- Light down
- Heavy down
- Light descending
- Heavy descending
- With weapon – all $10
- Light attack
- Heavy attack
- Light jump
- Heavy jump
- Light side
- Heavy side
- Light down
- Heavy down
- Light descending
- Heavy descending
Inspiration:
This Game was inspired by the in the class activity of the Dada Collage, why? Because throwing many things together and making them work as a different work altogether and making a whole new piece out of it, is one of the biggest things I did with this project. This is also inspired from the reading “Discourse Engines for Art Mods” which discusses the many different ways onto which someone can mod a game both inside and outside the game. And lastly the reading “Sustainable Play: Towards A New Games Movement for
the Digital Age” for the reason being this is a mixture of games that can be implemented into the future and games can take the seeds of this modification and implement it in their own way to new games that are coming out in the near future.
Dropbox video links:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y1e6p9vsfkld4yp/20180526_154545.mp4?dl=0
The first video shows the first part of the project which is the gambling part and will be leading up to the second video.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xy4b3g8da2zkc08/20180526_191253.mp4?dl=0
This second video shows the project in its second phase, aka. the gameplay phase.