Reddit as a Board Game

Course work | Interaction Design Studio
Introduction

The Reddit game is intended for a group of 3-4 players that simulates the online experience of one of the most used social media platforms in the world, Reddit. While it captures the essential spirits of the social media platform’s unique community culture and mechanism, our game also adds in some slightly competitive flares to better fit the board game context.

Contents of the Board
  • 1 Game Board

  • 10 Avatar Cards

  • 40 Currency Bills

  • X Silver Awards

  • X Argentium Awards

  • X Community Awards

  • (Ideally ∞) Posts for each Community

  • Tokens for Karma Points

Posts
Avatars
Awards
Currency
Game Flow
  1. In the Reddit game, the players each play in turns.

2. At the beginning of each player’s turn, they roll the dice. The number on the dice represents the community they are moderating.

3. During the turn, the remaining players are considered members of that community. The moderator then draws one post from the community and shows it to the members.

4. After reading the post, each member has 30 seconds to write an anonymous response to the post on a paper. Mimicking the action of "commenting" on real posts on the platform. If members finish responding before the timer runs out, they can hand their response face down to a moderator who is not part of the gameplay. The players that do not finish in time are eliminated from the round.

5. After collecting all responses, the moderator shuffles, reveals and reads them to other players.

6. The moderator can then evaluate each response with an “upvote”, “downvote” or no reaction. Members who receive an “upvote” can take 1 Karma from the Karma Bank, and members who receive a “downvote” put 1 Karma into the Karma Bank.

7. A player with negative Karma is immediately eliminated from the game.

8. The moderator can also choose to use Currency Bills to purchase Awards to reward a response. When an Award is given to a response, both the responder and moderator gain equal Karma that is awarded.

9. A player also has the option of buying stakes in a community in exchange of karma points. If a player owns some stake in a community, every time the community gets rewarded, the player also receives karma points proportional to the stake owned.

10. The player with the highest "Karma" wins the game. The players need to think of quirky/relevant/catchy responses for each post so that they can get as many upvotes/awards as possible. More upvotes mean more karma.

11. The game can go on until the posts in all communities are completed.

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