For our first practical exercise, you will be playing the game risk. If you’ve played Risk before, a word of caution. This is not world domination Risk. Instead, we are playing Limited Objectives Risk. Read the rules and go through the tutorial carefully. The game’s basic mechanics are similar, but the game’s objectives (and the resultant strategies) are significantly different!
1) the tutorial needs to be filmed or narrated, LImited Objective Risk Tutorial Slide Deck 2) Create some sort of drag and drop exercise using the eight objectives to demonstrate formulating player strategies for Risk. Should include an exercise that allows players to choose a color, look at the 3-player set up, and then choose three objectives (from the eight) that are the three to pursue as a player (of that color). Feedback on their choices needs to be provided. (Omit yellow, as that is covered in the tutorial). 3) An exercise to create some sort of data collection plan in order to answer sponsor’s issues.
Content add: Discussion of what data to collect. Detailed data (e.g. for every individual dice roll) versus bigger trends. Maybe a menu of different kinds of data to collect and how useful it might be.
Content add: provide one or two player briefs from the past? (Not sure I want to do this and provide to resident or road-show as the brief could just be snatched and repackaged) Maybe an exercise where we provide individual slides to choose for a brief where some are not useful and some are, and feedback is provided. E.g. always take a country each turn to get a card (not useful, general strategy already covered, not meeting sponso’s objectives).