Face Off (Party Game)

Game Ideas
#1

Upon the call for party games, I’d thought I’d take a crack at one.

Face Off (4-?) players

Goal:
Earn 6? points to win the game.

Gameplay:
Each player hold one blink. Triple click to start/restart

During the game you can single click your blink to see what colour you need to match.

The colour is displayed only for a moment to hide it from other players.

Each colour corresponds to an emotion you must portray on your face.
Red = Love
Blue = Contentment
Green = Greed
Yellow = Surprise

Players portray their emotion on their face and move around the group looking for a match.
If both players agree with a nod…(or kissy face if players are comfortable with that )
… they connect the white lit edge of their blinks.
If they are correct the Blinks will flash GREEN and both players will earn a point.
If they are incorrect the Blinks will flash RED and both players will lose a point if they have any.

If you can not find a match, you can single click your blink to pick a new colour.

Once you earn 6(?) points your Blink will celebrate and you yell FACE OFF! and you win if you are the first!

BLINK:
one edge of the blink will always shine white… this is your connection side.
SINGLE clicking the blink will temporarily light the 3 sides opposite the white side and show a new random colour.
DOUBLE clicking the blink will reset your score to 0 and put the blink in READY mode
READY mode: the blink will flash white showing all players are ready to start the game. A SINGLE click will start each blick into the game (see above)
TRIPLE click will show you your score after someone has declared FACE OFF and ended the game.

Aside:
Will be programming this up shortly and play testing this weekend.

The concept is based off of my DUDE card game and variations of it.

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#2

Sounds like a fun concept!

#3

Sounds cool, but why do you need a contact face?

#4

Could see folks enjoying this. Think I played a winking game similar to this except I think the goal was to not get caught by anyone but the person you were winking at.

#5

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#6

Can get back on the forums now! woot!

Working on this over the last couple of days.

Re: Sounds cool, but why do you need a contact face?

Face contact will check to see if there is a match and automatically score for you.

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#7

I meant why is it just a single face and not the complete blink? But I guess it is easyer to code and you need less space, if you just du it for a single face?

I still don’t know that much about coding. But I have more time this year now and hope to learn some.

#8

ahh…
I was thinking that I want users to hold the blink a certain way so that the secret colour reveal is hidden in their palm.
The connection side is lit up and easy to see where the other player wants to connect…

#9

Just pushed a working version… but still a few display bugs and other timings to tweak.
Instructions are in the ino comments at the top.

#10

Notes from last night’s play test:

4 player

Blue = Contentment was the weakest facial expression… So we test with Blue = Silly

Fun comes from building your own ‘codes’ while trying to decode others. Eventually players start coming up with a ‘standard code’ and they start feeling successful. But the game is quick and ends before that ‘standard code’ is fully realized… generating that ‘lets-play-again-I-got-this’ feeling. Sort of like the game ‘Time’s Up’ where by the third round only a pose is needed to guess a celebrities’ name. (Time's Up! | Board Game | BoardGameGeek).

Players could come up with their own mapping of colours to actions/words/etc. But a curated few would be best. Maybe a printout of the mapping would be good for different variants. (eg… DUUUDE varient)

Code
add: automatically move from match comparison to back in action.
add: better celebration animation when win
check: score display of losing players… didn’t seem to work.

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#11

i have to wonder about the click to change colors mechanic. it seems abusable. someone could just look for a face they recognize, put that face on, then change their color to match. so i wonder if anyone does that in practice.

if so, the best fix i can think of is that it counts the number of times you manually change the color. change it 2(? 3?) times and you lose a point.

#12

I put in a small delay in the function to change the colour.

Since it is a pretty fast paced game, the strategy of just cycling the colour didn’t appear to be an issue. The colour is random, so it is a risk… but part of the fun if someone tries attempts it.

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