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It's been a while but your nice hosts come up with a game in roughly an hour, this one for the cat owners out there! After a fairly long meta, we get into the mind of a cat and design a competitive game for them to play.
At least two cats
A cat toy shaped like a die with a treat inside
List of activities the die points to
Pick an end date for when the game stops (can be arbitrary).
Give the cats the cat toy shaped like a die, they will roll the die and leave it eventually, and this determines the next activity for the human to set up. Once the die decides what the next activity is, the human sets it up based on a chart. Once the task is completed and cats are awarded points, repeat the die roll and do the next activity until the end date (since remember, you're on Cat Time so the amount of activities you do depends on your cats). The winner is the cat with the most points by the end!
Examples of tasks (there would be at least 20):
Tiny Horrors (with Rosalie Vile)
GDC 2023 Special
Postmortem: "C.A.R.L." (with Andrew Kenady)
"Metroid is very serious." Secrets & Easter Eggs; Player Trust
Nice Thinking: "Pizza Land"
"Layers and layers of hair." Visual Composition; Minigames
The Logistics of Moving On (with Zach Barth)
Nicest of 2022
"Leveling out the table."
"Insert interesting car here." Verisimilitude; Indie Game Credits [Nice Replay]
Nice Thinking: "Neurodiversity in Gamedev (with Adam Clewes-Boyne)" [Nice Replay]
"Maximum Whooo!" Learning to Use Tools; Co-Op Games [Nice Replay]
The State of VR in 2022 (with Andrew Eiche) [Nice Replay]
Nice Games Jam: "StorySlide (with Osama Dorias)" [Nice Replay]
Visual Coding (with Alina Matson) [Nice Replay]
Designing like a Dungeon Master (with Katrina Ostrander and Jon Kiehne) [Nice Replay]
"No referees?!" Curling; Off-Ramps [Nice Replay]
Characterization in Pet Management Games (with Sarah Yu and Beth)
"You lost all your dragons." Save Data; Interdisciplinary Communication
"Time is just a search bar away."
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