CAGD 170 Rule Sheet v1

 Group 2

E-Portfolio Rule Sheet 1 (Version 1)

Monochromatic Solitaire: This is a variant of the original game of solitaire that forces the

player to think of new and different moves because instead of alternating colors on the

cards they will stay only in lines that are the same color.  The other main rule of this

variant is where instead of kings being high they will be the lowest while aces are now

the highest card value on the board.

  This is what a completed game looks like

Making this new version of the iconic card game was difficult due to the fact that I had

not played before.  There were many rules that I had to learn and strategies to use to

win.  However when finding the original rules there were many terms that I threw away

to make the rules easier to understand.  The few experiences I had with the game may

have shown me very basic things such as stacking cards and setting up for the start of

the game.

To get a deeper understanding I looked into multiple rule sets and found that many were

the same but had small additions or reductions in the rules but the basic concept was

the same throughout all of them.  I then took what I found and changed some aspects to

fit what I envisioned for the game.

The first time I added new rules it was only the concept of using matching colors instead

of alternating them.  However when I tested playing this way it felt too close to the

original game which led me to seeing how the game would play if it had an alternate

card value added on to the color change.

In the first play-test went smoothly and felt like just playing a regular game of solitaire but

that deck did not have jokers inside of it so they did not affect my play-test and I solved

the game after a while because I’m still new to solitaire.  On my next attempt adding in

the rules of alternate card value, changing kings to the lowest card and aces to the

highest, The game started smoothly however there were jokers in the hidden piles

which made me have to sift through all the cards to find them to remove.  This caused

me to restart the game.  I will have to add into the rules to remove all jokers from the

deck before shuffling.

Through development one member was not present for many meetings which did not

allow much coordination on development.  Neither member had previous experience

playing solitaire so developing ideas for this was very difficult.  With the little knowledge

the first iteration created was very simple but was not a large change.  After a few

play-tests of that iteration the second iteration was created which changed the game

much more significantly than the first iteration.

With more play testing and learning more intricate knowledge of the game of solitaire, a

very flushed out version of the game can be developed, and if more people play-test this

version it could have more feedback from more experienced players.