Week 9 - Cards and More Cards

I played Burger Truck Battle with some classmates on Thursday. Burger Truck Battle is a relatively simple concept where if you can make a burger, you can get a customer. However, there is more to it than just that. You start off with 6 cards randomly passed out to you and there are 4 cards that you must have to make a burger: Patty, Bun, Lettuce, and Tomato. If you have these 4, you can turn them in, get a customer, and draw 4 cards back as you must always have 6 cards in your hand. If you do not have enough cards to make a burger you may turn some in and draw more meaning that is all you may do for your turn. There are special cards such as fries, ketchup, diet, and multi-card. Fries means you may steal a customer from your competition. Ketchup can counter this move. Multi-cards can be any of the burger ingredients and be played as whatever. Diet can remove a customer from being used, however a cheat meal card can counter this move. Players go for as long as there are available customers. In the end the one with the most customers and/or value wins.

“one design pattern is consistent across disparate cultures and centuries: flat, rectilinear forms” (Altice).

Burger Truck Battle follows the trend of rectangular playing cards with values/names in the corners for easy viewing when being held in hand. There are, however, truck-shaped cards that act as players in a  way. It is something for the player to visualize and place customers next to as if it were a real truck with customers lining up for burgers. The customer cards also follow the traditional rectangle shape.

“The card’s planar surface also excels as a support for text, color, pattern, icons, and many other forms of art and design” (Altice).

“Wingspan” is a card game where birds are used to complete certain goals for each round. Each card features some nice art with a bird and the bird's different features or requirements. These birds have different actions which can be used in the player’s favor. Action cubes are used if the action asks for it as well as dice rolling. 

“Since cards are planar and uniform, they can be grouped into sets, counted, sorted, ranked, indexed, and ordered” (Altice).

There are some birds with similar abilities and they can be grouped into categories. These categories can be critical to winning different rounds that feature different goals. The cards are played by placing them on a tabletop board in the specific categories.