Ta-Da! We get the Potato Pirates!
Potato Pirates is a card game for ages 6 and up which mixes logic, strategy and coding concepts in a carbo-loaded game.
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To start the game, you, as a Potato Pirate, will be assigned two ships along with 20 potato crew (10 on each ship) as well as 5 cards that let you power up your attacks and sabotage your enemies. On your turn, you will draw two cards from a common deck. With these cards, you will decide the fate of other potato pirates, be it roasting or looting them.
Alliances can be made but watch your back! Remember that you are dealing with pirates. Any ship that loses all its crew shall be sunk and the player is eliminated from the game. When the smoke clears, the last Potato Pirate standing will be the King of the Caribbean Sea.
So how does this teach coding to kids?
Coding concepts are like superpowers and they come into play in the form of control and surprise cards. These control cards give you the ability to make multiple attacks or sabotage your opponents. Through that, players will learn basic concepts of programming such as loops, conditionals, boolean logic and interrupts. If you want to know more about this game, I do suggest that you visit their website or their article Coding without Computers.
Craving for this yummy Finland-based project? Potato Pirates will be launching on Kickstarter this August 2017. So strap on your logic sword belts, summon your best Jack Sparrow accent and be ready to rule the high seas by supporting the campaign at www.potatopirates.game!
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Zhou Huibin is a smith of words who majored in Philosophy & History from the University of Western Australia and whose life has followed the flow of his hobbies. He seeks continual contentment in his ponders, reading, writing, painting and board games which fills almost all of his time.
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Calling all aspiring board game designers! The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) has started a competition for you to design an inclusive tabletop game!
With the aim of promoting inclusivity for the less-abled, Project: Build invites you and at least one other (up to a maximum of 4) to come up with a table top game that promotes the importance of Universal Design (UD) and inclusivity in architectural design.
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Universal Design in the built environment refers to the ability for people with limited mobility to get around the neighborhood easily and enjoy an active lifestyle with their friends and loved ones. This includes handrails along stairwells, warning tactile indicators on the floor and automated doors among others.
The tabletop game can be either a board game, card game, role-playing game or a tile-based game and must not already have been published.
Stand to win up to $3,000 cash as well as a Hasbro hamper worth $1,000. Registration closes Thursday, May 25.
Visit the Project: Build site for more details.
