Time: 10 weeks
Role: Game Designer
Software: Procreate
Date Completed: November 2023
This was the first game I ever designed. We were tasked with making a game based around a song that came out in the early 2000s.
We chose Milkshake by Kelis.
Each player is competing to win over seven boys to their yard by making a milkshake using ingredients that that boy likes.
The ingredients.
There are seven ingredient types: Sour, Sweet, Savory, Salty, Bitter and Abstract. Each player will draw six ingredients each turn and must play atleast three of them.
We wanted to make a comedic game which is why we included the abstract ingredient type.
The Boys
Each boy has unique likes and dislikes. When every player has played their ingredients the boy is flipped over. Then players get points depending on if they played an ingredient of a type that the boy likes and extra points if it is one of the ingredients listed on the back of the card. Players then lose points if they played ingredients of the type that the boy doesn't like and they lose extra points if it is the named on the back of the card.
Some boys also have special abilities which are active the entire game if the player has them in their yard. We did this to make some of the more unusual boys more unique and to incentivize players to use the challenge cards to steal other players boys.
Challenge
Challenge cards are used as tie breakers or can be used to steal a boy from another player. Each challenge card has a different challenge and players use the cards in their hand to complete the challenge. This incentivizes players to keep some ingredients in their hand in case a challenge is issued.
