I marvel over games created to showcase unusual topics, so it’s no surprise that I’m amused by the release of a card game based on the content management system Drupal. Drupal: The Card Game, created by Rustan Håkansson of Cloudberry Games, will be available free at the NodeOne booth at the DrupalCon convention taking place in San Francisco in April 2010. (2-4 players, 5 minutes)
As for how to play, each of the 2-4 players receives a set of seven patch cards in the same color. Players then receive six two-sided “site/module” cards, with one half of the card showing a module in one of three colors and the other half showing a website that uses some combination of modules. Each player reveals a site/module card simultaneously, then they repeat this process two more times, after which they arrange the modules by color.
Players then take turns playing patch cards face-down on the modules. Once all cards are played, the patches on each module are revealed, with any module receiving a sum of patches equal to or greater than its value being activated. Players then reveal their site cards to see whether the required modules are in play; if so, they score the sites as well as any module for which they contributed the highest sum of patches. The player with the most points wins.
You can download the complete rules from the NodeOne website, and Håkansson explains the development of Drupal: The Card Game in another post on NodeOne. Finally, should you prefer visual game explanations, here’s a video of Håkansson – disguised as Drupal creator Dries Buytaert – explaining his game to a cast of curious characters. Head to YouTube for a larger video image.
Disclosure: I’m working with Håkansson on a website project involving Drupal.
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