To all those who tried it, mahalo for playing Pāʻani Pepa, the Aloha on Rails Official Card Game. It was a real experiment, and we appreciate you rolling with the ups and downs.
We took this snapshot of the Leader Board at 3:49 pm HST. If you are in the top 45 or so, please meet with Seth immediately following the conference. We’ll move down the list, giving the first person the first choice of prize. If you’re not there when we call your name, you lose your chance to pick.
Please use the comments of this post for any feedback or suggestions you have for the game.
Congrats to our winners, and thanks for playing!
For players that have signed into the game at least once. Updated at Tue Oct 06 18:49:21 -0700 2009. 1. Jordan Isip : 838 2. Savara Sid : 633 3. Baker Luke : 611 4. Jess Mauer : 410 5. Anthony Eden : 407 6. Burger David : 387 7. Gaio Michael : 381 8. Marty Haught : 342 9. Hagius Walker : 326 10. Price Wes : 307 11. ENGLISH KEVIN : 299 12. Wang Andrew : 282 13. Brenda Strech : 280 14. Jon Suderman : 248 15. Michael O'Sullivan : 238 16. Michalczik Jasper : 236 17. Mark Ranallo : 222 18. Seth Ladd : 220 19. Matthew Williams : 217 20. Hoang Vince : 210 21. Cole Carson : 206 22. Nicholas Brochu : 198 23. Ip Justin : 190 24. Phil Cohen : 188 25. Olson Rick : 185 26. Matthew McVickar : 184 27. Matthew Wastrodowski : 183 28. Taylor Jeremy C : 181 29. James Martens : 170 30. Ben Trevino : 168 31. Andrew Canfield : 164 32. Zhou Wenyi : 158 33. Chris Selmer : 153 34. Little Timothy : 152 35. Scott Chacon : 150 36. Wyatt Ferreira : 146 37. Sarah Mei : 146 38. Desi McAdam : 146 39. Dighe Vikram : 132 40. Shawn Drost : 131 41. Charles Nutter : 108 42. Jim Weirich : 105 43. Jussi Sipola : 102 44. Sean O'Brien : 99 45. Spangle Travis : 98 46. Tammer Saleh : 94 47. Trey White : 93 48. Chesley Tyler : 93 49. baldwin andrew : 93 50. Forde Pete : 92 51. Maika Saguid : 92 52. Clarke Joe : 89 53. David Croswell : 84 54. Obie Fernandez : 81 55. caleb cohoon : 81 56. Huggins Kieran : 79 57. MATHURIN Gilles : 78 58. Olausson Thomas : 77 59. Beutel J David : 74 60. Nicole Hori : 74 61. Park Donald : 72 62. Juselis Jane : 72 63. Byrd Marc : 71 64. Cory Shaw : 67 65. Lamb Lai : 66 66. Peter Liew : 65 67. Reid MacDonald : 57 68. Apao George : 56 69. Yung Wing : 53 70. Aaron Longwell : 52 71. Katzman Phillip : 51 72. ramin keene : 49 73. Gregg Pollack : 44 74. Kim Bruce : 44 75. Bloch Alain : 23 76. Walker Robert : 17 77. Corey Donohoe : 17 78. Yi Dan : 12 79. Jesse Copeland : 8 80. Myron Marston : 0 81. Steve Sloan : 0 82. Veenstra Ron : 0 83. Sussman Kurt : 0 84. Eden Darrin : 0 85. Ritari Alan : 0 86. Kevin Folan : 0 87. Jennifer Geis : 0 88. John Postlethwait : 0 89. Mattias A : 0 90. Blythe Dunham : 0 91. Pat Maddox : 0 92. Nathaniel Brown : 0 93. Darron Froese : 0 94. Boonstra Joel : 0 95. Lee Laurence : 0 96. Preston Ma : 0 97. Duckart Frank : 0 98. Mayer Ken : 0 99. Lewis Skip : 0
I realize this is a bit late but I did indeed want to give feedback. As you saw Jordan Isip was able to completely trounce the others in just a few hours of playing. I assisted him in this.
The way we did it was just gathering all the cards people would give to him. There were a lot of people who were not interested in playing the game as well as a bunch of us who were friends who all decided to give Jordan their cards. (There are a lot of players with 0 points.) This allowed Jordan to have a huge deck to work with. If cards were hurting his score he would simply hand them off to me, who was not playing and did not care about my score. I did end up giving these cards to people who wanted them but regardless, I still favored Jordan before anyone else.
This is how he was able to play for just 6 hours and win the game. The game is actually super well designed save for the one flaw we used - there is no limit to the number of cards in the deck. There needs to be a limit otherwise it is just a popularity contest and whatever collects the most cards and spends a bit of time sorting them wins.
I suggest simply putting a cap on the max number of cards in a deck and you will have a really great game. As of right now it is just about who can collect the most cards which is not really competitive. Maybe also not allow players to hand over all of their cards (they must have at least one card in their hand?)
I hope that helps for the next conference!
Aloha John,
Thanks for taking the time to provide that feedback. We actually explicitly allowed someone to get the “most” cards and win, because that would be a “social” win. The whole point of the game was to get people to interact, so if someone wanted to win by convincing people to give him cards, then that’s OK by me!
We did ensure that there was no way to introduce more cards into the game. That is, the total number of cards was fixed.
Also, next time, I think we’ll actually print them out.
Also Also, the email problems were frustrating. I had no idea that gmail throttles emails. That was very frustrating. Right after the game, Heroku announced support for a more professional email solution.
Thanks again for playing, and for coming to the conference!
Seth