The game represents a media-stereotyped passage of American high school life, with players assuming the roles of ambitious students who seek to become the most socially successful individual of their graduating class. Score points are symbolized as yearbook signatures and are awarded through factors such as having the most friends, connection to extracurricular clubs, and random event cards. It bears features common to collectible card games such as Magic: The Gathering in game play execution, but it is not a trading card product.
High School Drama! was a nominated finalist for the 2007 Origins Award in the category of Best Non-Collectible Card Game. There is possibility of future optional expansion packs to the core game, adding additional cards and providing greater diversity.
Famous quotes containing the words high and/or school:
“She gave high counsels. It was the privilege of certain boys to have this immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood; a blessing which nothing else in education could supply.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The first rule of education for me was discipline. Discipline is the keynote to learning. Discipline has been the great factor in my life. I discipline myself to do everything—getting up in the morning, walking, dancing, exercise. If you won’t have discipline, you won’t have a nation. We can’t have permissiveness. When someone comes in and says, “Oh, your room is so quiet,” I know I’ve been successful.”
—Rose Hoffman, U.S. public school third-grade teacher. As quoted in Working, book 8, by Studs Terkel (1973)