Print And Play Games

One of the next assignments for our Game Design class is having us design and build a print and play game to be able to have our classmates play.

A Print and Play (PP) game, is a game that you can find online, download the assets for, and print and build it according to the instructions given. They vary greatly from one game to the next, from a large sprawling RPG to the simplest card game. 

Naturally, to make PP games, you have to play PP games. So, my classmates and I set out to play as many games as we could. What follows are reviews of the games we played. 

Space Junk 

Space Junk is a slightly complicated PP game, where players take control of one of four spaceships, and move along a 6x6 grid of upside-down cards, which are revealed as the player moves along them. Each card contains a certain amount of resources that the player can take or use, which allows them to build more parts for their ships, and hold more resources. The main goal of the game is to expand your ship with the most parts as possible (All of which have a certain amount of victory points attached to them) 

It was interesting enough to play, and in the end, was the game we found the most fun out of the rest. While it did suffer from not having a specific grid that you could print out, making the grid out of the provided tiles worked well enough that we could understand how to take advantage of the game. 

Bad Grammas

Bad Grammas was a very quick, humorous game. It's fast paced, but honestly not a whole lot of fun. The goal of the game is to match two grandmas against each other, where the one with the highest attack is the winner, unless a specific grandma in the beginning of the game, has changed the win-state. 

It does it's best to be funny, but unless you're paying attention to the grandma's names, or their looks, the humor can really be lost on you, especially with the really lack-luster gameplay.