DRAFT
Additional Xeno's Snippets
These are some little quotes from the booklet in no particular order... just for exploring its tone.
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"These display a shuttle-port-view of the landscape of your alien's home planet. Market researchers did geographic surveys to bring you these photos. They got their feet wet. Appreciate."
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"So, it's math. If you can figure out which alien the math describes, you can build a nice finished profile set of 4 cards, to try to win. If not, then not so much. But, I'm sure you have many other fine qualities."
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"If you think you can't, try it anyway. Stop panicking. Breathe. It's a little bit intuitive. Go for it. You are shiny and smaller than a hamster – I mean, bigger. Bigger than a hamster. You can do this."
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"These provide the tech behind your fashion-tech inventions. If you don't read these carefully and incorporate these beings' mad skills and epic anatomical structures in your designs, no one will buy that you can really make these things happen with your clothing inventions.
In which case, no one will buy your inventions. In which case you would lose.
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Don't lose. Get these cards. Respect the animals. Honor the plants. Win."
"End of the Game
As soon as one player has invented or purchased-at-auction 5 fashion-tech inventions and then invented their 6th, they win. No more auctions. No more markets. It's over."
"Alternative play rules:
Play with your eyes closed. Post a video of the game online.
...Accept ridicule and move on. This is now the low point of your life, it's all up from here.
Congrats."
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"Holding a Pitch Auction
The Pitch
Pitch your invention as though it is to the IVC.
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Set the timer for 60 seconds for the pitch.
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Demonstrate you own a verified customer profile suit.
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Or sit back down in shame.
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Describe your customers.
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Especially communicate what you found about the aliens from the demographic data and their profile.
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Prove you're right. Show off your fancy, colored, text highlights.
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​Share any economic, social, and environmental benefits you have built into your process and product.
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Do all of it with panache.
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Be quick, be impressive, be compelling, be done.
The Auction
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Set the timer for 30 seconds for the live auction.
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Allow other players to bid for your invention.
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Give the highest bidder a license to your invention. Take their money."
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"The Breathing Phase
...If you feel confident that you have a suit, present it to a Principle Expert for verification before you get all uppity and start drawing an invention without really knowing whom you're designing for.
Did they check it? Looks good?"
"...Really sure? Okay, now ask an Expert to take a look and check your match. You don't want to be building toward the wrong suit!
Note: This is not an excuse not to be sure yourself. Do the math. Good koocalla.
Make a quick plan for your market prices this next round.
Run totally and complete out of time; beg for more; be denied; move on.
All right, breathing phase is done. No more breathing."
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"...Game play will continue, with market buying and selling and tech inventing, until a player wins. Then gameplay will stop and you will all go home."
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Thanks for Playing
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