Trials

Trial 1

Outcome

One of the issues faced during this trial was initially players started with only the amount of eggs they received from their adaptation cards - this lead to players being knocked out early if they drew any of the poor outcome or competition cards. This was fixed by having people start with their adaptations eggs and 3 additional eggs. Another issue faced was there wasn't an inital description that introduced the game and the purpose of the game. This lead to people not understanding the initial objective which needed to be clarified by me verbally. I have since added an introduction to the instruction manual. The last challenge I saw was people not initially understand that some of the adaptation cards only apply to certain environments - this required an additional verbal instruction from me, going forward I made it clear to read the instructions fully before starting.

Trial 2

Outcome

For the second run, the game ran much more smoothly but we had two main issues. The first was even though most people were starting with 5-8 token in the beginning people were still getting knocked out quickly. To deal with this issue I updated the rules to have everyone start with 6 eggs + the egg amount from their adaptation cards. This should allow more people to stay in the longer. The other issue was we ran out of cards before the people ran out of eggs. At this point we had already played the game for 40 minutes so I decided to end the game here and have us tally up our eggs to determine the winner. I then updated the rules to match this decision.