Now let’s take the game you have been working with in Exercises 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3 and see how we can change the system dynamics by experimenting with the properties, behaviors, or relationships of its core objects.
1. For example, if you chose a game like Monopoly, change the prices, placement, and rent of every property on the board or change the rules for movement.How you change these things is up to you, but make significant changes.
2. Now play the game.What happens? Did your changes affect the balance of the game? Is the game still playable?
3. If the system is still playable, make another change.For example, take out all the “positive” Chance cards in Monopoly and leave in only “negative or neutral” cards.Play the game again.What happens?
4. Continue doing this exercise until the game is no longer playable.What was the crucial change you made? Why do you think that change finally broke the game?