98-262 Student Taught Courses (StuCo): Intro to Boardgames
3 units, Carnegie Mellon University
This course will introduce students to the hobby of board games and nonstandard card games. We will be playing a wide variety of game genres and investigating their mechanics, with the ultimate goal of expanding your knowledge of the wide varieties of games and understanding their mechanics enough to extend similar principles of play to games that use similar mechanics. Each week we will have a small lecture and then play some of the board games we spoke about. Roughly every 3 weeks we will ask for a progress report on your midtermfinal. What Kinds of Games will we be playing Eurogames Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Stone Age, Puerto Rico, etc. Nonstandard Card Games Fluxx, Pit, Race for the Galaxy, The Resistance, etc. What Kinds of Games we will NOT be playing Including but not limited to the following examples Common household boardgames Risk, Monopoly, Dominoes, Sorry, Apples to Apples, Scrabble, Clue, Life, Trivial Pursuit, etc. Standard 52 Card Deck Card Games Blackjack, Poker, Rummy, etc. Traditional Games Chess, Checkers, Go, Nine Mans Morris, etc. We are not contractually obligated to introduce all of the games on the list, nor are we restricted only to this list when deciding upon what games we will play.
Prerequisites: none listed
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