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1. Pick up a packet of cards from the Game Office
Inside your packet, you will find five kinds of cards:
- Green Maker Cards
- Pink Property Cards
- Orange People Cards
- If you’re lucky, a blue Special Card
- and an Instruction Card
The contents of your packet and the basic rules of the game are explained in the following video:
2. Combine cards to design a creative challenge.
By combining, sharing, and trading cards, you will create original media projects, earn points, and find international fame and fortune.
Here’s how it works:
Green Maker Cards tell you what to make. For example, a 30 Second Short:
Pink Property Cards specify elements or ideas that you must include in your project. For example, a bicycle:
By combining two or more cards you make a “Deal.” Any given Deal is worth the total of the highest point values printed on the cards used to create it.
All those who collaborate on a Deal earn the full point value of the Deal.
The most basic Deal consists of one Maker card and one Property card. For example:
This simple Deal — “MAKE a 30 Second Short INVOLVING a Bicycle” — would be worth 45 points (30 points for “30 Second Short”, and 15 points for “A Bicycle”). If you collaborate on a Deal with other players, everyone who collaborates will receive the full point value of the Deal.
Note how the cards connect together. You must match both arrow direction and at least one of the colors on the side of the cards to connect them.
Deals cannot contain more than one green Maker Card, but may contain an unlimited number of pink Property cards, blue Special cards, and orange People cards — so long as there are enough valid connections.
Depending on the number of available connections, you can make bigger and more complex deals. Making these kinds of Deals will often require you collaborating with others. You can also add in People cards (which award bonus points for working with specific other players), and Special cards (which add interesting new twists and are worth more points than normal cards):
Make sure to watch the video above for more examples.
2. Create an original media work that satisfies the constraints of your challenge.
Once you’ve created a Deal that you want to make, make it. If it’s a video, shoot it. If it asks for photo documentation, take pictures. You’re going to have to prove that you fulfilled the conditions of your Deal, so document appropriately.
3. Submit your project via this website.
Log in and click on the “Submit” link. If you don’t have an account, ask someone at the Game Office to create one for you.
4. Take your cards to the Game Office to Seal the Deal.
Once you’re done, in order for your Deal to earn you points and appear on the website for the world to appreciate, you need to Seal the Deal by bringing *all* the cards you used in your Deal to the Game Office where they will be punched.
5. Discover and be discovered.
As Deals are completed and processed by the Game Office, they will appear in the Deal Archive. You may rate and comment on anyone’s Deals, including your own. Commenting will earn you a small amount of points, as will any participation in the Bullpen. Alumni, faculty, and other special visitors will view and comment on your work.
Points will be tracked on the Leaderboard in a variety of dimensions, from total points, to most points in particular categories or demographics. Weekly and overall points leaders will receive special interactions as the game proceeds. And by special, we mean special.