Hello everyone,
My name is Marston Gould. Many years ago, I was an avid gamer and game tester. I also used to work at NASA back in those days and as you might imagine, many of the folks I worked with were very intelligent and capable of understanding and take apart test games. The group I used to play with would often create their own games and attend gaming meeting held nationally such as the ones that Alan Moon used to hold in Ohio.
Unfortunately, life had other plans for me and my gaming days went very quiet. Having kids does that to you. They (the kids) are finally getting old enough where I'm starting to recapture some of my lost time and I've started playing and getting interested in games again.
I've had an idea for a game that I've been carrying around in my head for several years - but in order to know whether its even interesting or not, I'd really like to learn more about a few forms of specific game mechanics. In particular, I'm looking for recommendations of games that have aspects of group/collaborative success; games that requires a player to take a set of actions that will benefit not only themselves but an opponent in order to be successful; and/or games that require collecting items in order to be successful. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you..
I look forward to many interesting discussions.
Marston
