Wednesday, January 30, 2013

My Games: Suspicion

The rules have stabilized enough for me to feel confident to post the print and play version of my first card game, Suspicion.  The game is for 4-8 players (I've  mostly played with 5) and takes around an hour (the more players you have, the longer the game lasts).  There is no real theme with the idea that the game itself is fun and if it is successful enough, I can release future themed editions of the game like Fluxx does.

So in order to print this, you can either print duplex style (I have never been able to test this method since my printer can't print that way) or you print all 8 odd pages, flip those 8 printed pages over and put them back in the paper tray, and print the 8 even pages.  If done correctly, page 1 and 2 should be a single page, page 3 and 4, page 5 and 6, etc.  Then it's simply 12 cuts per page (4 to trim the borders off, 8 to separate the cards).  Even though the images on the pages are aligned the same on every page, I have never been able to get things to line up perfectly from one side to another, so just in case you have the same experience, cut the back side of the card so that players can't tell which card is coming because of how a card is cut.

The balance of the game has not been perfect, so feel free to tweak the numbers after a few plays to see how things can change.  There are also 4 blank Manipulate and Agenda cards for you to create your own if you come up with good ideas.  If you do, let me know so I can try it when I play.  If you have any problems, comments, or feature requests, let me know.  Also, if you enjoy the game, let me know!

In case you missed the above download link, here is another link to download Suspicion.  Enjoy!

4 comments:

  1. Downloading...

    I don't know if I'll be able to get 4 people together to playtest, but at the very least I can critique what I see myself, if you don't mind :-)

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    1. I don't mind one little bit. The more I can get eyes on this thing, the better.

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  2. Good News: I just did a google search for "card game suspicion" and this was the third result. Yay!!!

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  3. If suspicion gets too "murder mystery" misunderstood, we could always go with something akin to Treachery - because that's kind of how I feel when the game is over. :)

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