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

Sink Or Swim

Miles Turner, Natalie Yoon, Sophia Ko, Mariana Bezhanyan

Sink or Swim is a competitive capture the flag game where two teams fight against each other to infiltrate the opposing team’s base. Characters are divided between the sea team and the land team, and each side must utilize their environment and abilities to gain the upper hand and steal the loot from the enemy team.

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Infected Isles

Philip Venkov, Brandon Joseph, Yun Tsai, Henry Erwin

A creeping infection has taken hold of the islands. It is up to your motley crew of heroes to fight it back… or maybe you’re itching to cause some trouble. In this game, one character plays as the infected character, controlling the spread of the infection until it covers each of the outer islands. All other characters play as adventurers who work together to fight back the infection, destroy the three infected totems, and defeat the infected character to win the game.

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