This could easily be turned into a game. Each ’round’, players elaborate an originally simple idea in a new cultural context. Or if that’s too hard, a set of cards could be made with simpler ideas like ‘strong lead’, ‘kaiju battle’, etc. I’d keep track of the actual “footage” using index cards with some sketches or writing on them, so that bits could be borrowed or not in each round. Of course, each version of the film would be very incomplete, just whatever scenes players happen to make.
I LIKE THIS. Also is kind of the opposite of narrative games -like ‘Once upon a time’- in the sense that it doesn’t struggle to produce a coherent tale but a very strange one.
That sort of sounds like Kaleidoscope. (http://www.photographsoflightning.com/product/kaleidoscope-pdf/)
I haven’t read or played it, but I have read/played Microscope, the game it’s hacked from. Assuming it still works sort of like Microscope, you could probably hack it to be more like this pretty easily.
This could easily be turned into a game. Each ’round’, players elaborate an originally simple idea in a new cultural context. Or if that’s too hard, a set of cards could be made with simpler ideas like ‘strong lead’, ‘kaiju battle’, etc. I’d keep track of the actual “footage” using index cards with some sketches or writing on them, so that bits could be borrowed or not in each round. Of course, each version of the film would be very incomplete, just whatever scenes players happen to make.
I LIKE THIS. Also is kind of the opposite of narrative games -like ‘Once upon a time’- in the sense that it doesn’t struggle to produce a coherent tale but a very strange one.
That sort of sounds like Kaleidoscope. (http://www.photographsoflightning.com/product/kaleidoscope-pdf/)
I haven’t read or played it, but I have read/played Microscope, the game it’s hacked from. Assuming it still works sort of like Microscope, you could probably hack it to be more like this pretty easily.
Both games actually already use index cards, too!