In the previous posts, I talked
about why I think the Japanese Flower cards used in the game of “Go-stop” are problematic.
Now let’s go talk about what should be changed.
Previous Post
The more
obvious thing is the cards. Considering that there is no actual reason to use
the Japanese Flower cards, you could just convert them to some facsimile of basic
poker cards. Poker cards are only required to convey 2 types of information.
While Go-stop requires 3 types of information, there is no real reason that it
could not work. I provided a description of the information in the previous
post. Here is an excerpt.
The first
is the number groupings. These groupings are used for matching cards in
order to take the cards out of play for one’s point collection. With the
Japanese “Flower cards”, these groupings are the 12 month of the year.
The next
information type is the “Grades” of the cards. There are five different
types of value categories among the Japanese “Flower cards”. In order to score, you need to collect a
number of cards with the same “grade”. With the Japanese “Flower cards”, these
grades are…
The last
type of information is the special attributes. These special attributes
come into play during the scoring process. They provide bonus points to the
player depending on whether specific requirements are met. Usually these are
displayed as a variation of the card’s grade.
The conversion
to poker card format may also help with reducing the aggressiveness factor usually
displayed when Koreans play the game. It is common to see cards being tossed
and smashed down on the table. This may be the reason the Flower cards are made
of plastic. Or the causality may run in the opposite direction.
It’s the whole “Chicken or Egg”
thing.
To be
frank, the terminology of Go-Stop is actually an incorporation of what Koreans
consider very low class vernacular.
Think what Americans would call hoodlum
or street speech.
You cannot
use Go-stop terminology in any respectable conversation. Not only would it be
rude, a lot of people would not know what you were talking about. In comparison
to poker, Go-Stop does make poker seem like a gentleman’s game.
This
adaption to a poker cad format is not much of an issue. Here is an example.
First just keep the number
groupings as “numbered” months. Month 1 (Janurary),…month 12 (December). If you
want to keep the Asian vibe to the cards, you can do 1 月, …,12
月.
With the “Grades” of the cards, you
can just convert them into a “Platinum”,” Diamond”, “Gold” ,”Silver”, “Bronze” value
hierarchy. The special attributes could be displayed by some symbols like a “+”,”-“
or even graphics .
The next thing would be to
indicate on the cards the scoring methods for each “Grades” of the cards. The following
illustration is the basic scoring method.
The resulting card could look like something like
the following. I give it a nickname of the “Kang Ji-hwan” card.
Which is the card equated to …
Another example of the “Kim Soo-hyun” card.
Which is the card equated to …
It is easier to count how much points you
have. When you have 3 Kang Ji-hwan cards, it is easy to know that you have 3 points.
The Korean drama theme is a wish list thing. The
image usage costs would be too high or will they?
In any case, those are just flavor.
What do you think? It is just a concept at the
moment.
In the next post, I think I’ll go over the
need for a meta-game to counter the gambling aspect of the game of Go-stop.
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