Table-top Alien Hijinks

All That and a Can of Beans is a board game where everyone plays as an alien who has crash-landed on Earth. Now you must attend an auction in disguise, to buy all the parts you need to repair your ship and leave. There is an upside though, Earth is loaded with Grrblaxxixgrabsaglox, or as the locals call them, beans. So, it looks like before you leave here you’re going to need to get all that, and a can of beans.

All That and a Can of Beans was designed to be a fun, comedic game that you could pick up and play when you have some friends over. Much of the humor of the game is conveyed through the theming and the unnecessarily verbose ways in which things are worded. The way that the humor can often obscure the real meaning of things, meant that we had to work that much harder to keep the game simple and clean. At its core, All That and a Can of Beans is a game about bidding where the players all take turns bidding on various items and trying to be the first to buy all the stuff they need to win. Other actions that the players can take were added to spice up the flow of the game and keep it fun and interesting. The game went through a lot of testing and iterations. By the time we were done workshopping the game, all that remained the same was the overall theme. More than any other project, this taught me that the first idea you make is far from the last one.

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