Fantastic Scuffles at Cork College of FET - Douglas Street

I had the honour to be invited down to Cork College of FET - Douglas Street this week for a Fantastic Scuffles playtesting day with their first and second year game design students. Although they are studying computer game design, they have to create tabletop games as part of their assessment.

It was a great day with more than 20 students putting Fantastic Scuffles through its paces, stress testing the mechanics and trying to find game-breaking loopholes in the rules. Where issues were identified, mostly driven by trait and equipment synergies, we talked through different approaches to resolve them and implemented a couple of changes.

My thanks to Neil Crowley and all who took part. It was a great experience for me, and I hope that the discussions that we had around game mechanics and design choices were useful to the students as they prepare for their future careers.