The game consists of two piles per player, an action pile, and a life or health pile. The main mechanic is the action pile, players take turns placing a card on their own or another players action pile. The aim is to use defending cards mostly on your own pile to cancel out attacking cards from other players, and place attacking cards onto other players to take their lives.

There are 4 categories of cards in this game;

Attack

• Bow

• Sword

Defense

• Shield - Blocks bow attacks

• Boots - Blocks sword attacks

• Counter attack - Cancels out any attack

Action cards

• Rotate - Each player passes action pile to the next player

• Reveal top card - Reveals the top card of an action pile when placed upon it

Bluffing

• Blank - Used to pretend you have taken an action

This project taught me a lot about how to make games fun, for example initially there wasnt any bluffing mechanic this was something that was developed through playing the game. I also think the simplicity of the design really helped with these fundamental skills as it allowed us to really focus on how the game was played rather than making it look really good or biting off more than we could chew.

This was one of the first units we had at University and was the first group project. Therefore another very valuable skill it taught me was how to work in a team and all the complications that can arise through that, that being said I believe we worked well as a team considering it was the first time a lot of us had met. It helped to delegate work and play to each others strengths and ultimately taught me that communication is so very key when working in a team because as soon as that stops everything starts to fall apart.