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Inspiration: My own personal experience since starting college. I wanted the player to feel an overwhelming amount overwhelming while playing the game through tasks. 

Jason Rohrer’s “Passage” helped me create the idea of trying to invoke a feeling/ experience from the audience.

Title: Overwhelming

This is a 1 v 1 style game.

Setup:

One timer set to 5 minutes

Each player recieves 8 task cards (each card should be different)

Task Cards:

1. 2 Math cards (complete 3 math problems)
2. 2 connect the dots cards
3. 2 draft emails to your professor (prompt is different on both cards)
4. 2 Send 3 messages
5. 2 Choose cards (about exercising)
6. 2 Check your emails
7. 2 Write a to-do list (1 card is about a to-do list for today while another is for tomorrow)
8. 2 Write down what you plan to eat later

Additionally each player is given a math worksheet and connect the dots pages.

Math worksheets were found here: https://www.crk12.org/cms/lib/DE01903180/Centricity/domain/529/unit%20one/order%20of%20operations/Common%20Core%20Sheets.pdf

Connect the dots pages were found here: http://cms5.revize.com/revize/franklinlifelong/Solutions/Solutions%2020-21/At%20Home%20Activities/Activities%20through%204-14/Extreme%20Dot%20to%20Dots%201.pdf 

Gameplay:

Once the timer has started, each player is recommended 30 seconds per task in order to go through as many tasks as possible. Every minute an event card spawns in which players must stop what they are doing to try and complete that task. Once the event card is finished, players may resume trying to complete their tasks. Each event card is different and the players are responsible for keeping track of the time. In addition, event cards that require you complete a seperate task (Registration and Billing) gives the player that completes them an extra completed task. The player with the most completed tasks by the end of the 5 minutes wins the game.

Event Cards:

1. Re-do a task you just finished
2. Registration has opened (look for 4 classes from different subjects) (Both players may win)
3. Billing statement (pay $250) (Only one player can win)
4. Time for a snack (take a 30 second break)
5. You got an extension (you have 30 seconds to finish a task you didn’t complete before)

Items for event:

On the left, there is bills that add up to $410. So that way only one player can win.

On the right, there are papers with various classes written in them. Each class is different and also some are full which means you can’t enroll in that class and have to find another.

Artist Statement:

As you can probably tell by title, the theme of this game is being overwhelmed and stressed. I wanted to create an art game that simulates being a college student is a still fun kind of game. When I first started making this game, I had 3 things in mind: how am I going to overwhelm the players, what kind of game should this be (1 person, 1 v 1, 1 v all, etc), and how do I make it also fun in a sick twisted way. After reflecting on myself and my experience, I settled on a 1 v 1 style game because I constantly try to compare/compete with other people even subconsciously. Having the players compete against each other helps increase the stakes, and stress the players even more. In terms of gameplay, I knew having a timer would be a central element in stressing players out because time stresses everyone out especially when you don’t have enough of it, forcing players to complete tasks, keep track of event cards, and time manage everything. My game is an art game that allows the player to experience stress and being overwhelmed. I got this idea from “Passage” by Jason Rohrer. In the “Works of Game ” by Sharp the way he explained the game really pulled at my heartstrings,basically being the passage of time and how we all die in the end convinced me to try the same thing in my game. An art game is supposed to be an immersive experience that portrays what you want the players to feel. I hope I was able to accomplish that in my game. 

Monopoly: Aftermath

Game Mechanics:

• Free Parking -> Parking Tax $150
• Income Tax -> Increase pay to $400
• Luxury Tax -> Increase pay to $200
• Go To Jail -> Go To Just Visiting
• All “pay” cards are doubled (chance/community)
• Going to jail card takes you to Just Visitng instead

Fun Fact:

1. The total cost to buy and upgrade everything to max is $14,850
2. The total amount of money per Monopoly game is $20,580

Game Setup:

Do math: 20,580 – 14,850 = 5,730

1. 2-players -> 2,865 per player
2. 3-players -> 1,910 per player
3. 4-players -> 1,432 per player
4. 5-players -> 1,146 per player

Rules:

• Regular Monopoly Rules except…
• Everything is always fully graded and bought
• Last player standing wins

Other ways to play:

Players agree on how much money they wanna start with and try to outlast each other.

Time to not go broke

Artist Statement:

When thinking of a game to create, I had my eyes set on Monopoly. The first concept of the game was called “The Landlord’s Game” created by Elizabeth Maggie. Her intention was to expose how property owners profit from impoverishing renters. I wanted to use that idea but modernize it, creating a game where you can “win” but come to the realization that you will never truly beat the game. In  Monopoly: Aftermath, you start the game with all the properties already being bought and fully upgraded (hence the “aftermath” in the title). You are given some money to go around the board and try to be the last man standing. I decided to also change some of the spaces and rules. All the tax spaces are doubled in cost, Free Parking now charges you, all chance and community chest cards that say pay are now doubled, and you can no longer go to jail(the idea is that you are not worth the police’s time since you are too poor to be significant). While I also wanted to edit the cards, I unfortunately had no time to do so.  My reason for these changes is to highlight the state of our economic system where people aren’t able to buy property,  cost of living has increased unlike our paychecks, and it’s only a matter of time before everything seemingly leads to you becoming bankrupt. After going through my two playtests, players loved the satirical aspect of how realistic. In the readings there was anti-war art, specifically in the Berlin chapter with John Heartfield and George Grosz who created art to not only express their feelings about the war but to also convey the detrimental effects of it. I wanted to create an anti-property owner game like Maggie did. I also had players suggest themes for this concept in actual places like Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, etc. But why not let someone else come up with that idea? In the spirit of DADA, I would love it if someone would appropriate my game and/or come up with a different interpretation with my game as inspiration.