Creating Cards

The main problem with our game was that it was based too much on luck of the draw.  In order to give the players more of a choice, we decided to add character cards.  The main problem with adding the character cards was that we had to make sure that one character was not too powerful.  We created a card called the angel of death which allows the player to kill another players patient.  This card may seem extremely powerful, however, when this specialty is used, one must discard their entire hand and lose that turn.  Another problem arose when we were deciding what to make the Nun's specialty.  Again, we did not want to make her too powerful. This debate went on for at least an hour, but we finally concluded that when a player chooses the Nun, they are allowed to discard up to two cards instead of the usual one card.  The character cards gave the game balance and gave the players more of a choice.

Once we came to an agreement on the specialties of the different characters, we had to decide how many of each card would be needed.  This was actually very difficult and will most likely be a work-in-progress.  After we have played the game several times and after seeing how other people interpret and play the game, we will be able to have a better judgement of how many of each card will be needed.  Finally, we created each of the cards and cut them all out. Next class we will have a better understanding of how our game works and revise it to make it perfect and fun.