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actually the number two IRL

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a real-time puzzle battle royale card game about the periodic table that came to me in a dream

  • 30 players, organised into teams of 3
  • The game board is a regular grid. An atom takes up one square on the board.
  • you start with two cards (assigned randomly to you) that have molecules, elements, or molecular fragments on them
  • I started with OH (alcohol group) and HO (hydroxide), which I was told were totally different even though they placed the same thing on the board
  • One of my teammates started with something with phosphorous in it, and was told that only one other player had phosphorous. We knew for some reason that it'd be a good idea to seek them out.
  • The game begins with everybody placing (maybe one, maybe both) their starting fragments on the shared board. If they get "cleared" later on, you're out.
  • Matching elements get cleared all at once (like a long string of adjacent Os would all vanish together). Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon was explicitly mentioned in the dream. I don't know if there is actually meant to be a little shovel knight running around the game board and clearing the elements or if they were cleared in some other way.
  • I think what cards you start with determines what other cards you have available in your deck. Other cards probably move people's elements and molecules around, or do reactions. They'd be thematically related to your starters. I think this is why we wanted to find the other phosphorous player, as their phosphorous-type cards would work well with ours. Having fewer people to synergise with was the strategic cost of having elements that were rarer and thus harder to clear.
  • The cards looked most like pokémon cards. Elements kinda looked like basic energies.
  • In terms of the "scientific accuracy" of the game think exactly one step above Sokobond or Spacechem. More chemistry-themed than educational.
  • The game started by having all contestants filter into three rows of 10 chairs. There were a lot of spectators and press. I don't actually know how playing cards would have worked as they were physical things and there was no obvious way to have that recorded, and also no obvious way for more cards to be given to you. I woke up before actually playing the game, so many things are left unknown.
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