From Social Patterns

Game Goals

• Build a social digital product around an object for a specific audience delivered in a specific way
• Deliver a well rounded product (with features across Identity, Activities and Relationships)
• Build products in a defined time frame
• Work as a team to collaborate and build the best products
• Play against other teams

The Parts

• Other cards: (Lucky, Principle, Anti-Social, Anti-Patterns)
• Give you more or less points
• Provide opportunities to affect other teams

The Rules in Brief

• Break into teams of 4 - 6
• Give your team a name
• Quickly elect a captain/dealer
• Dealer, opens pack and divides cards into 2 decks (one deck is rubber banded). KEEP THE DECKS SEPARATE
• Shuffle each deck separately. Create a space for discard pile.
• Deal 4 cards to each player from large deck
• Deal one card to each player from small deck
• Teams can discuss cards to make best product decision
• Dealer goes first, plays a card face up
• After each card played, a new card is drawn. Hands always have 5 cards
• Only 3 products can be in play at a time
• Once a product is complete - ship it and start a new product
• A Product is:

  • 1 object card

  • 1 demographic card

  • 1 delivery card

  • 3+ feature cards

• Extra points for a well rounded product with matching feature symbols to Need/Delivery cards
• Other cards = add or subtract points as directed
• Teams can play Anti (anti-social or anti-pattern cards) on other team’s products after the 2nd Quarter

Social Mania: The Game

• The Rules
• How to assemble the card deck
• Feedback on the Game
• Ideas