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Free print-and-play card games and an open game-design curriculum.

Band 4 · Grades 9–10

How do I make it feel the way I intend?

How do I make it feel the way I intend?

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Print lessonBand overview
Kills: The engine is the skill.
Walk out with: Vertical slice with tuning model

Materials

  • Printed worksheet
  • Analog fallback always available

Studio seed

This is a seeded ladder lesson. Expand via pull request — authoring is git.

Do

  1. State a falsifiable hypothesis.
  2. Make the smallest playable change.
  3. Watch someone play without helping.
  4. Keep the artifact; export your Backpack.

Kills: The engine is the skill.

Playtest log · hypothesis-first

Analog fallback: print this form and write by hand. Hypothesis first — then watch without helping.

Sandbox

Formula column: income - cost. Analog fallback: paper ledger + hand chart.

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Curve

Sliders → y ≈ a·b·x² + c·x + a. Analog: graph paper.



RunJS

Sandboxed iframe. Analog fallback: trace the state machine on paper.

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