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Stairway to Nirvana

Guillem Álava Burgueño

Sergi Colomer Ferrer

Abraham David Díaz García

Aram Galarza Roca

Arnau Lucena Cobo

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Components of the game

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Rules of

the game

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At the beginning, players are placed at the starting space (The START tile) with one effect card on their hand. The unluckiest starts

The board is divided by floors. A new floor doesn’t start until a new floor number appears.

Depending on the cell landed, many effects can happen:

-Landing on a stair’s lowest space lets the player climb up to the space where it ends.

-Landing on a snake’s highest space forces the player to descend to the space where it begins.

-Landing on an event space forces the player to draw a card from the event deck, which is activated instantaneously.

-Landing on an effect card space lets the player draw two cards from the effect deck.

All cards have a description displaying its usage.

No other special cell can be activated due to doing an event or an activated effect. If you’re obligated to move into a special tile, that tile won’t make an effect.

If there are two special tiles one on top of each other (such as a stair and an effect card space), stairs and snakes have priority over the effect and event cell. However, if players land on a special event or effect tile after climbing a stair or sliding through a snake, that tile is activated.

Players can have a maximum of 3 cards on their hand. If the player has more than 3 cards, they must choose and discard one of them.

Every player can only play one effect card per round at any time. Any active cards should not be discarded until its effect has passed.

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Both event and effect cards have a discard pile, if no more cards can be drawn from a deck, reshuffle the corresponding discard pile.

A player’s hand cannot be seen by other players by normal means (that is, unless it is specified by a specific event or effect). But players are allowed and encouraged to make negotiations and promises.

When playing a snake effect card or a ladder effect card, tokens must be placed exactly vertically from each other.

-Example: If you were to put a ladder two floors tall, the player would have to put one of them in any place on the first floor and the other on the exact same placement; but two floors above.

All snakes and ladder effect cards last one round.

On one tile, there can only be either one staircase or snake of any kind at a time.

If the number of stairs or snakes exceeds the number of tokens available, override the closest stairs to the goal.

If the number of floors of the card is exceeded, reach the maximum/minimum available.

Some effect cards may have specific labels to events. These are:

-Advantage: Roll the specified dice twice and choose the highest number.

-Disadvantage: Roll the specified dice twice and choose the lowest number.

To get to the last space and win, the player must roll the exact number, going over the number needed will make you backtrack the remaining amount of spaces. You cannot place snakes nor stairs on it.

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Mechanics

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Mechanic:	Resulting dynamic:	Resulted aesthetics:
Players can hold up to 3 cards which they can use to affect other player’s moves.	Players have the ability to change the course of the game at any given moment and put it to their advantage.	Control.
Player’s hand cannot be seen.	Bluffing becomes an important part of the game, as your cards determine how dangerous you are.	Curiosity, Fear, Superiority.
Only one card can be used per player per round, and a player usually can only hold a maximum of three cards.	Resource management becomes a key part to win. Players will have to choose on being patient and waiting to use a card with the risk of not using a card during the turn or being hasty only for the result to not be optimal.	Awareness, Superiority, Anxiety/Paranoia, Patience.
Snakes, ladders and events.	At no point a player is guaranteed to win. In one single turn the player in first position could end up last. Likewise, a player in last could suddenly end up being first.	Frustration, Excitement, Relief, Uncertainty.

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Types of fun

People’s fun & Hard fun

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Bartle type target

Killer & Socializer

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Playtesting:

Iterations and changes in the game

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Clarity & Specifications

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Snakes & Ladders didn’t work

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Board

modifications

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