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Transformational game · Academic · Education

Team
5
When
Oct to Nov 2025
Practice
Game design
Status
Planned

This is Fine!

A social deduction game that helps new MHCI students see struggling on a team as normal and fixable.

  • 5person team
  • 5hidden archetypes

AskedOct 2025

Make struggle feel normal.

Help new students believe that struggling on a team is normal and fixable.

TurnedOct 2025

A social deduction game about struggling teammates.

From a project management game to a social deduction game about struggling teammates.

The modelPlayers accused abilities, never people. That let the game recast struggling as a behaviour a team can fix, supported by help tokens, rotating roles and a debrief.

  • The brief, as asked
  • The turn
  • Found and made
  • Set aside
  • Evidence, one dot per count

LandedNov 3 2025

Presented to the program director.

Presented to the MHCI program director.

Details

My role
Team of 5; coordinated meetings and facilitation.
Proof
Playtests: players pointed at abilities, never at people; roleplay carried the game.
Set aside
Fixed suffering roles (rotate them instead).
Where it landed
Presented Nov 3 2025 to the MHCI program director.

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