PolluteProtest
Overwiew
PolluteProtest is a 2 player competitive game, inspired by Breathe Project. One player plays as an activist and the other plays as an Industrialist.
The goal for the Industrialist is to build factories to make $200k whereas the goal for the Activist is to not let the air pollution value reach 60 by gaining more activists to protest and pass the legislations for setting restrictions to the Industrialist.
The goal for the Industrialist is to build factories to make $200k whereas the goal for the Activist is to not let the air pollution value reach 60 by gaining more activists to protest and pass the legislations for setting restrictions to the Industrialist.
What I did
- Worked with another designer to design the game mechanisms
- Designed and created the game elements: all cards elements, cheat sheet, legislation board and token
- Conducted several playtests and iterate the game
- Wrote the rules for the game
Transformational Theory
The players will build and protest actual factories and air polluters in the Allegheny County area to change their knowledge from thinking air pollution is an issue that doesn’t affect them to realizing the prevalence of air pollution and polluters in Pittsburgh, and the real life sources of air pollution around them, also changing their disposition from thinking that protesting pollution is an impossible task to thinking that they can have an effect on big corporations, to ultimately achieve the goal of teaching people that they can have an effect on the big corporations and polluters around them, and teaching them what an activist would do to have that effect.
Meaningful Iteration I made - 1
Iteration-1
- The goal for Industrialist is to pollute the air by building factories and raise the air pollution value to 50.
- No money mechanism.
- No different types of factories.
Changes(Iteration-2):
- The goal for the Industrialist is to build factories to make $200k.
- Add money mechanism.
- Add different types of factories.
Reasons:
- To fit the reality: In the real world, the Industrialists build factories because they want to make money. Polluting the air is a side effect.
- During the playtest, the players did not know where the pollution exactly came from. When adding the money mechanism, we can include different factories’ information.
Meaningful Iteration I made - 2
Iteration-1
- Only 1 activist
- The more dice that Activist gains, the more public power he/she has.
Changes(Iteration-2):
- The Activist can recruit more activists by rolling dice.
Reasons:
- When doing the playtests, I observed that the players that played Activist felt lonely when holding a protest with one activist.
- Rolling dice involves chance. This matches the reality because when the activists try to convince people to join them, sometimes they can gain more people but sometimes they can’t.