Postmortem For Design Game

1. Name: Isaiah Corey
Game: Vendor
The theme in which I developed my research was my current occupation, which is a
vendor/merchandiser. The basic rules of the the game is you are given half a deck of cards and
then given a second pile of cards from which to pull from. You then have to match the cards you
pick up to the cards you have in your hand. You get the most points matching the cards with
their exact match from your hand, then a reduced amount of points for matching the number or
face, and finally the least amount of points for matching the suit. Players can do this at their own
leisure or add in a timer to increase the pace. The game is for two or four players.
Before the play tests, the game started out exactly as stated above but without the timer.
As the players started the game it was rough but they soon took to it easily, a little too easily.
The game became slow and monotonous. With the addition of the timer and forcing the players
to empty out their hands in just a few short minutes it became much more exciting for the
testers. So after the first few tests I had the players play as quickly as possible and then later
added in a timer so that players could have a base to work from instead of just telling one
another to go quickly.
I feel satisfied by the progress the game made with the play tests. I definitely learned the
weaknesses in the game and tried to make sure they were fixed. I will be the first to admit that
without the time limit it was rather boring. Having a test group and watching how other people
played the game in ways that I had clearly not expected, and seeing it evolve right in front of me
was truly exciting.