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Three Musketeers. Rules for Three Musketeers Players take turns moving one of their pieces. No diagonal moves. Musketeers move by capturing a nearby enemy.

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1 Three Musketeers

2 Rules for Three Musketeers Players take turns moving one of their pieces. No diagonal moves. Musketeers move by capturing a nearby enemy. Cardinal’s men move to a nearby empty space. Cardinal wins if the Musketeers are in the same row or column. Musketeers win if they cannot move. Starting Board

3 Observations?

4 Discussion Questions What’s a good strategy for the Musketeers? For the Cardinal?

5 Discussion Questions What interesting rule variants or modifications can we come up with?

6 Aesthetic Breakdown What are the aesthetics of Three Musketeers? Can we come up with aesthetic models?

7 Discussion Questions 1. What is the maximum number of choices the musketeer player can have on his turn?

8 Discussion Questions 1. What is the maximum number of choices the musketeer player can have on his turn? 2....on his first turn?

9 Discussion Questions 1. What is the maximum number of choices the musketeer player can have on his turn? 2....on his first turn?

10 Discussion Questions 1. What is the maximum number of choices the musketeer player can have on his turn? 2....on his first turn? 3....on his last turn?

11 Discussion Questions What does this graph look like? Time Choices

12 Discussion Questions Time Choices

13 Exercise While remaining faithful to the aesthetic qualities we identified in the breakdown: Adapt the rules to accommodate 3 players. Adapt the rules to accommodate 4 players. Can you come up with a single rules set that accommodates 2-4 players?

14 Return to this room tomorrow morning to continue this exercise. If you want to work on the exercise tonight, feel free to take supplies with you. But PLEASE return them. We need them!

15 Welcome Back! If you weren’t here yesterday, please come to the front of room 236 and check in. Everyone else: Go to your Elective B classroom.

16 Continue work on your Three Musketeers variant. Have something playable by 11:00

17 Time for Coffee! Take a break, then come back and playtest your designs. If time permits, give your design to another group to try.

18 Discussion Let’s compare solutions. What different approaches did we take?

19 Discussion Questions How many possible board positions does your game have? How does it compare to the original game?

20 Discussion Questions Consider the problem of adding multiplayer capability to a single-player digital game. How is this exercise similar? How is it different? What about converting a multiplayer game into a massively multiplayer game?

21 Any Final Observations?

22 Please Come to 2020 for the intro to Exercise II.


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