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Cosmic Encounter – Improve your diplomacy

2016-01-05 by David Sanchez Leave a Comment

Create alliances, negotiate and bluff; in other words, practice diplomacy.  That's what's at the core of Cosmic Encounter, a 3-5 player game that plays in about 1,5 hours.  In this game you'll take on the role of an alien race battling for the supremacy of the galaxy. But don't mistaken this with a tactical game, you won't be a general here: you'll be a diplomat. The main game mechanics can be summarized and simplified as follows: Each player will take on the role an alien race with a special power and have 5 planets on which initially there will only be space ships of his race.  Also, each player will have cards in his hand which he will be able to use, primarily for resolving attacks, but also as special abilities.  The goal of the game is to have 5 colonies (ie. space ships) in other player's planets. To do this, players will take turns at attacking each other's planets.  At the begining of a player's turn, he will draw a card that will tell him which other player he will [Read full post...]

Posted in: Bluffing, Cosmic Encounter, Diplomacy, Make Me Better Games, Negotiation, Risk, Tabletop game Tagged: Bluffing, Cosmic Encounter, Diplomacy, Make Me Better Games, Negotiation, Risk, Tabletop game

Information and decision-making

2015-12-04 by David Sanchez Leave a Comment

You're walking through a park and see a couple of 7 year old kids in the playground area. One walks up to the other and the latter, without provocation or even saying anything, starts hitting the former. What would you think of this situation?  What would you do?  A normal reaction would be to stop the fight and reprimand the aggressor.  Under a given situation, we make decisions or judgments based on the information we have, but it's important to keep in mind that this information maybe out of context and incomplete or maybe even manipulated or incorrect.  Here's more information on the 7 year olds' case: John has been bullying Matt for the past year every day in school.  Matt has had to make up stories at home to explain the bruises.  Once his self esteem hit rock bottom and the anxiety was unbearable, he took the determination to face the situation: next time he saw John, he'd confront him, he'd show him that from that point on he would stand up for himself.  He might win the [Read full post...]

Posted in: Decision making, Information, Make Me Better Games, Risk Tagged: Decision making, Information, Make Me Better Games, Risk

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