Machine of Magical Making

Notice

This game was make during the December 2020 Galway Game Jam, by Simon Kenny, with the design contributions of Josh J. Goodwin and art by Green Rat. Special thanks also to Brian O'Brien, and everyone at the jam, especially the organisers.

Machine of Magical Making is open source and free to use. Intellectual property rights are waved and not claimed, under CC0 licence. The version of this document is 0.2

Instructions

You are a group of little elves who all work in a magical workshop. People come in and ask you to make interesting things for them. It's your job to work together and find the right ingredients to make it.

There are a lot of ingredients in your workshop that you can use. See them on the picture cards. On the back of the card you can see what kind of things it does in the mix, but don't look yet! You have to guess what it will do by thinking about the picture.

To make something, you pick two ingredients and put them in the Machine of Magical Making. You always need one thing for the formula part, and one thing for the shaper part. The formula is mixed with the shaper, which makes your magical creation!

To see if it worked, we will turn the cards over and see what the combination is. If you're a very small elf your adult elf will help you to read the back of the cards. We can then see if it works to make what the person wanted. We check by matching the words on the back.

If you didn't guess right don't worry, you can have another go! When you play it again you can try to remember what you learned before.

If you did guess it right, that's great! The person who asked you to make it will give you some money and take their thing. You can have more fun by drawing out the thing you made.

Play as many times as you like!

More information

For more information, check out the rules document.