Jugaad by Malavika Gupta

Students
Education
Master
Subject area
Communication Design
Focus area
Design for Play
Year
2021
Education project type
Course

About the project

It is a multiplayer card game that allows anyone to experience the culture of Indian life hacks (Jugaad culture).

Jugaad culture is a mindset to overcome a problem situation in adversity by making a quick fix, hack, or workaround solution. It is mostly seen as a solution for efficiency at the moment.It has 3 main features - affordability, quick fix quality and sustainability.

The project aims to create a play experience that encourages others to use existing resources for making quick-fix solutions. Setup - The game starts with a set of cards that detail specific Indian household problems. Opposite that, are a set of cards that show everyday household objects.

Each player gets 3 solution cards and on each turn has to take a new card and discard one of them by choice. 2 problem cards will be kept facing up on the table for the players to solve problems.

How to win - The players have to find the best combination of objects to solve the problem on the card. The player that solves the most problems wins.

Game Play - 30 min