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• Semi-Cooperative Play — Players win individually by having the lowest total workload. However, the group must succeed often enough, or everyone loses. This creates a constant tension between self-interest and group survival.
• Anti-point System — “Hours of Work” acts as both a contribution to group success and penalty points toward losing the game. Lower score = better performance.
• Draft-and-Pass — Players draft homework cards by picking one and passing the rest. This encourages hate-drafting, planning, and denying strong cards to others.
• Card Effects — Homework cards can:
  • Add or subtract hours (including negatives)
  • Steal, copy, or modify other cards
  • Grant immunity, protection, or bonuses
  • Stack or compound with other cards.

As the Game Designer and Artist of Slacker, I:

• Designed player abilities, enemy types, and shooting patterns, difficulty scaling per round, and the final boss encounter.
• Designed and illustrated the card layout, characters, and maintained consistent theming.
• Lead sprint planning, coordinated meetings, and updated documentation.
• Hosted playtests and reported bugs to the development team.

Slacker was developed by No Brain Just Bones, a four-person team. I served as both a game designer and artist. While it was originally created as a three-month class project, the team has slowly continued development and testing in our free time. The game is currently in late production, and we are actively exploring publishing and printing opportunities.