To help myself remember how I felt about various things that I finished
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Alien Hotshots
We've had this game a long time, but haven't played it for a while. It's an interesting variant of War, with special cards to do things like "capture any even card", as well as cards you can set aside to modify future cards. I think it's a great game for 8-10 year olds.
This is Ann from Ann and Monty Stambler the inventors of Alien Hotshots. I am glad to hear this because these are all the reasons why we invented this game. We are child therapists and at the time were parents of young children so we tried to invent games that were interesting for adults and kids. Ann
Jesse Schell has taught Game Design and led research projects at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center (www.etc.cmu.edu) since 2002. Jesse is also the CEO of Pittsburgh’s largest videogame studio, Schell Games (www.schellgames.com), the author of The Art of Game Design: a book of lenses (www.artofgamedesign.com), and the former chairman of the International Game Developers Association (www.igda.org). In 2004, he was named one of the world’s Top 100 Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT’s magazine of innovation.
Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, he was the Creative Director of the Disney Virtual Reality Studio, where he spent seven years as designer, programmer and manager on several projects for Disney theme parks and Disney Online. Before that, he was a software engineer at IBM and Bell Communications Research, and a writer, director, performer, juggler, comedian, and circus artist for both Freihofer's Mime Circus and the Juggler's Guild. You can email him at jesse(at)schellgames.com.
This is Ann from Ann and Monty Stambler the inventors of Alien Hotshots. I am glad to hear this because these are all the reasons why we invented this game. We are child therapists and at the time were parents of young children so we tried to invent games that were interesting for adults and kids.
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Hi Ann! I'd love to chat with you both sometime. Feel free to drop me a line -- you can find my email at www.jesseschell.com.
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