Super Power Hour is an ongoing collaborative project initially created in the Game Design Workshop class. A four-week-long experiment in collective world-building and complex systems, it begins with each participant conceptualizing a “Character,” and what agency it may have in a world. After all the characters are presented the group builds the world and designs all of its rules and systems needed to accommodate all vectors of agency. The characters are then all revised to build rules that describe their possible actions and vulnerabilities to interface with the world’s systems and all of the other characters. Finally students design a playable deck of cards and miniature game pieces, and scenarios that make up mini games in the world.

Characters

Scenarios

Under Pressure

Aidan Strong, Vincent Roca, Hyun Cho

Under Pressure is a cooperative 4-6 player game where players work together to fix a massive robot. Explore the robot’s body and try to retrieve the necessary pieces to repair it, but beware of the deadly steam pumping through its pipes!

Sandcastle Warfare

Zara Aiken, Janie Wang, Joanna Chen, Emily Kim

Sandcastle Warfare is a competitive 4-6 player game where two teams move across a beach landscape to uncover the five flags needed to complete their sandcastle. The first team to uncover, safely return, and assemble the five flags in their home base wins the game.

Project Zero

Sue Lee, Claudia Alvarez, Malachi Wright, Joseph Hernandez

It is the year 4023 and in this apocolypctic world, two corporate giants exist for one sole purpose, to beat the other to a cure that will save humanity from computer viruses that infest human bodies. 4 player game: Divide into teams of 2. One team will be BioMania Co (red base). and the other will be Oracleutions Co (blue base). Beat the other team by collecting the following 4 chemical components to make a cure and save your group.

Caddy Boys

Louis Gluck, Anubha Gupta, Maxine Gonzalez, Priscilla Sanabia

Players must navigate the mini gold course in order to capture the golf ball and return it to their attraction. They must avoid the motes and fight one another during night time when the theme park is closed.

Inferno

Evan Ibarra, Jenny Dong, Eleanor Kinsella, Xinwen Hu

Inferno takes place in Dante’s version of hell. Players must make it through different territories and fight monsters to make it to Dante. To win, they must work together to kill Dante.