Becker College 24 Hour Game Jam Video

I finally managed to upload this video to Youtube. I video taped some of the Becker College 24 Hour Game Jam this past Fall for WCCA  TV 13.

Free Kaiju Card Game

Here are the Official Rules of the card game I helped create at the Becker 24 Hour Game Jam:

"Kaiju Card Game Rules

Turn order will be decided by the flip of a coin.

A game of Rock Paper Scissors, Die roll, or a best 2/3 match in Super Smash Bros Brawl determine who will decide which player gets to call heads or tails during the coin flip to see who plays first.

The player that plays first does not draw a card on the first turn of the game.

No maximum hand size.

When the game starts both players draw 5 cards. Draw 1 card at the start of your turn.

1 Kaiju per turn
    You can only call Kaiju on your turn.
1 Nature per turn
    You can play a Nature card at any time.

Kaiju can attack your opponents Kaiju.
Each Kaiju can attack once per turn.
You may use your Kaiju to block attacks directed at your other Kaiju.

Damage stays on Kaiju permanatnly, and can only be removed by card effects.
Only attacking Kaiju deal damage, defending Kaiju do not unless stated otherwise.

To whoever gets 10 or more power on the field first:

Congratulations on amassing the most terrifying army of Kaiju that should have never met in the first place. You are now doomed to a post apocalyptic existance, in which you struggle to survive. You have to live off of the corpses of the lucky ones that were killed by your army of Kaiju. Why would you assemble such a force?! NOBODY NEEDS 10 POWER!

TL;DR: You win. Hope you had fun."

Also, I would suggest printing out 4 of each card that we made for two people and then choose turn by turn which card you want in a 40 card deck.

 We never got to test play this game, so if anyone prints these cards out, please let me know if this game works or if certain rules do not make sense.

If this game actually works well and is fun, perhaps I will try to expand upon it while  making the images better. I couldn't have done this without the help of my partners Justin LaFleche-Tomlin and Ryan McCurdy.

Becker Collage's 2013 Game Jam: Part 1

I went to Becker College's 2013 Game Jam this past Saturday. I was invited by Breeze Grigas, a student at Becker College and a friend I met from one of the 24 Hour Comic Book Marathons at the Worcester Art Museum. He has created a tabletop game of his own called Project AEGIS. I had a really good time working on creating a card game in 24 hours with two other people in a group. There were plenty of other things going on since we had access to computers.

My main job was drawing up pictures for the cards after we discussed the rules for the game and how many cards we would require. Our group was assigned to create a card game based on water and Kaiju, Japanese giant monsters. I really enjoyed sketching these creatures. I might even fine tune some of these sketches and use them for my web comic at some point.

Here is a sketch of a phoenix and a alligator and a lobster hybrid.

Here is a sketch of a dragonfly monster with a scorpion tail and tentacles as well as a beast I refer to as the Jersey Devil.

Here's a sketch of a giant robot and a snail monster.

Here's a sketch of a twisted version of a Venus fly trap and a slime monster.

  

Here's a sketch of a Kraken and a hydra. I based the Kraken mainly on a sperm whale and I gave the hydra a turtle shell.

 Here is a sketch of a bee, a fish, a clam, and a seahorse. They all have some strange aspects about them, but I considered these the smallest creatures for the game.

These were sketches for certain affect cards in the game.

Here's a sketch of a cybernetic shark and a sting ray spliced with an octopus.

Here's more sketches for certain affect cards in the game.

There was some food brought for everyone participating, though many people brought extra knowing the food would only last a while. People took naps whenever they could.

This was one of the most experiences I have had in a while where I had been able to run off of about 3 hours of sleep.