Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Are you a werewolf?

Are you a werewolf? is a social game played with cards. It is played with up to an unlimited people, odd numbers are better. There just has to be enough cards for each person. Each player is dealt a card, determining if they are a Villager, Seer, or Werewolf. J and K are Werewolves, Q is a Seer, and all else are villagers. There is also 1 moderator.

The game alternates between night and day phases. During the night, the Werewolves secretly choose a Villager to kill. Also, the Seer, if still alive, asks whether another player is a Werewolf or not. During the day, the Villager who was killed is revealed and is out of the game. The remaining Villagers then vote on a player to lynch, in attempt to kill a werewolf. That player reveals their role and is out of the game.

Werewolves win when there are an equal number of Villagers and Werewolves. Villagers win when they have killed all Werewolves.

When I played, I was a werewolf. A random villager got lynched the first day and during the night, the werewolves killed the seer. Around, the 3rd or 4th round, the other werewolf got lynched, leaving me. Somehow, i made it to the end and the werewolves won.

Monday, August 29, 2011

Games in my life

To me, video games are more than just a past time. It has developed into a way of life.

Video games were one of the inspiration for me becoming an artist. In the beginning, I wanted to design video games. Now, I make wooden props of weapons seen in video games.

Like myself evolving as an artist, video games have evolved into something more. Now, games have in depth stories. No more are games being played just to pass the time. Games have become something like movies, but also a little more than that. With movies, you are just an observer of the developing story. With games, you are an active participant in the game, being part of and having a certain amount of control over the story.

I like to watch competitive game play. I treat competitive game play like how other people treat sports. Still, most people don't see competitive video game play as a sport. They still see it as a pass time for children. They do not know that people can make a living on just playing a video games. There are many tournaments out there today with big prize pools. There aren't tournaments for each and every game, just the ones that can be played competitively, such as Starcraft and League of Legends.