Comments on: Rehabilitation: Exquisite Corpses http://www.xorph.com/dispatch/2007/10/30/rehabilitation-exquisite-corpses/ Collaborative game design Sat, 26 May 2012 13:38:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Holly http://www.xorph.com/dispatch/2007/10/30/rehabilitation-exquisite-corpses/#comment-315 Holly Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:28:18 +0000 http://www.xorph.com/dispatch/2007/10/30/rehabilitation-exquisite-corpses/#comment-315 Perhaps "game with drawing" and "game with constructing monsters" are being unfairly conflated, and they require games of their own. A monster-construction game would be easy enough: you'd get a hand of cards including heads, torsos and legs, that you'd fit together to create monsters which then do battle. With the cards designed in advance it'd be much more possible to make them look pretty when pieced together. A collaborative drawing game is trickier. Perhaps we could try a variant of Exquisite Corpsing where instead of drawing something at the bottom, you add a new Photoshop layer? Each person would see the layer that preceded their work, construct a layer that looks good with it, and send their layer to the next player. Obviously the layers would have to have a smaller and smaller opaque area, so that the player at the end would leave theirs 80% transparent. Perhaps “game with drawing” and “game with constructing monsters” are being unfairly conflated, and they require games of their own.

A monster-construction game would be easy enough: you’d get a hand of cards including heads, torsos and legs, that you’d fit together to create monsters which then do battle. With the cards designed in advance it’d be much more possible to make them look pretty when pieced together.

A collaborative drawing game is trickier. Perhaps we could try a variant of Exquisite Corpsing where instead of drawing something at the bottom, you add a new Photoshop layer? Each person would see the layer that preceded their work, construct a layer that looks good with it, and send their layer to the next player. Obviously the layers would have to have a smaller and smaller opaque area, so that the player at the end would leave theirs 80% transparent.

]]> By: Kevan http://www.xorph.com/dispatch/2007/10/30/rehabilitation-exquisite-corpses/#comment-316 Kevan Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:03:45 +0000 http://www.xorph.com/dispatch/2007/10/30/rehabilitation-exquisite-corpses/#comment-316 Before the BlogNomic dynasty was derailed into Google results, I was thinking of a Prisoner's Dilemma type game. Each player would have the ability to include pre-defined monster components in their sections ("fiery breath", "glowing radiation"), but the effectiveness of those components would - according to pre-defined rules - depend on what other people drew. (So multiple copies of a component would be bad, or some components would cancel out others.) Players would have to leave hints and clues for those drawing after them, so that nobody trod on their toes. I don't know what form the game itself would take, but perhaps two teams of three players, each of them drawing a monster each, then seeing which one wins. (There could also be some paper-scissor-stone type interaction between the battling monsters; fire breath gets +1 against ice creatures, ice creatures get +1 against water dwellers, etc.) Before the BlogNomic dynasty was derailed into Google results, I was thinking of a Prisoner’s Dilemma type game. Each player would have the ability to include pre-defined monster components in their sections (”fiery breath”, “glowing radiation”), but the effectiveness of those components would - according to pre-defined rules - depend on what other people drew. (So multiple copies of a component would be bad, or some components would cancel out others.) Players would have to leave hints and clues for those drawing after them, so that nobody trod on their toes.

I don’t know what form the game itself would take, but perhaps two teams of three players, each of them drawing a monster each, then seeing which one wins. (There could also be some paper-scissor-stone type interaction between the battling monsters; fire breath gets +1 against ice creatures, ice creatures get +1 against water dwellers, etc.)

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