Sunday, April 29, 2012

The Abstract

The fundamental ideas we wanted to express & demonstrate in this game was memory skills, quick wit & punishment for failing to exert these skills. And we wanted to have these elements come out & utilized in a socially focused game. So we settle upon making a game involving short term memorizing & logic puzzle that can be played with a group people. The players gather round in a group & each draw a card from the deck of the chosen mode (there are 4) & each player must read out the content of their card, while memorize on the content of the next player’s card & so on & so on & so on, building up the skills of memorizing things, until the player screws up & forgets, they must suck on a lemon as punishment. This will negatively reinforce the player to try harder at memorizing the cards & the other player’s cards.

Our video


Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Our brainstorming

[10/04/2012 2:15:27 PM] *** Call from Anh-Tu Datura, duration 45:17. ***
 2:20:27 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: things we need
1. an game idea
2. a blog
3. a 200 word abstract
4. game materials...& etc
5. a video of our game...
 2:20:58 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: we have a blog that we can post this conversation on afterwards...obviously can't post a video of our video chat though
2:23:49 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: yeah we can shoot video on day, when we have players
2:23:57 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: cool
2:25:33 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: would be cool if we could do something with a deck of cards
2:25:40 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: OHHHH like
2:26:01 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: maybe something to do with memory...that could also be a drinking game haha. cancel each other out!
2:27:38 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: it has to be radical & novel..
2:27:49 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: but it's a start
2:27:58 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: yeh i'm getting to it, something incorporating cards and memory....
 2:28:02 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: sex brainstorming
 2:28:02 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: *sec
2:28:04 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: ><
2:28:08 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: I know
2:28:09 PM] Anh-Tu Datura:  i know
2:31:09 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: how about a game where we punish people to suck on lemons ?
2:31:43 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: lmao
2:31:47 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: awesome
2:32:19 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: well we can't have a drinking game.. & it should be novel..
2 2:32:28 M] Miyarei Qwertypants: i said not drinking game lmao...just thinking
2:32:36 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: just the idea that cards represent actions
2:33:03 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: as in cards from poker & etc
2:33:03 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: ?
2:33:11 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: yes
2:33:12 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: a conventional deck of cards ?
2:33:12 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: yes
2:33:14 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: ok
2:33:24 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: how about this...it might not be novel enough but its something
2:33:43 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: we have a deck of cards, a group of people sitting in a circle, and a game master
2:33:59 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: person 1 takes a card, lets say its an ace
2:34:10 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: they say "aCE" and put it face down on the table
2:34:39 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: the 2nd person gets a 7, they say "ace, 7" and put if face down
2:34:47 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: next person gets 6, they say ace, 7, 6
2:34:48 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: etc
2:35:02 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: so they have to remember what everyone else had and say it
2:35:14 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: when it gets upto 10 or so....people will start fucking up
2:35:28 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: when they do the game master whos logged the cards will point it out
2:35:33 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: and that person has to suck on a lemon
2:35:34 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: lmao
2:35:39 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: lol!
2:35:50 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: that's a start..
2:36:08 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: this game could "train your aptitude for memory"
2:37:16 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: yes it's a solid idea & has a good reason to play.. we need to flesh it out some more,
2:37:45 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: or instead of cards with numbers, i could make a deck with pictures of things like car, dog, monkey, cup, table
2:40:07 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: we could have modes
2:40:10 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: like
2:41:37 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: another version could be....they roll a dice to see who goes first..and 1 person picks a topic...for example... types of things...ie/ types of tyres. then they go around in a circle and say bridgestone, bridgeston michelin, bridgestone michelin toyo............etc..same principle.
obviously prob not tyres :P
2:42:15 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: another version could be words that rhyme.
ie/ fap, fap cap, fap cap snap, fap cap snap crap
2:42:28 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: i would play it
2:42:54 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: they choose a topic from the deck of cards ?
2:43:06 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: yeah
2:43:10 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: thats better idea
2 2:43:50 M] Anh-Tu Datura: and what does the play do ?
2 2:44:03 M] Anh-Tu Datura: player
2:44:10 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: what
2:44:25 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: they go round in a circle  & come up with related items ?
2:44:30 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: O-o
2:44:34 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: huh
2:44:36 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: oh
2:44:44 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: well there are 3 games her eatm
2:44:49 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: *here atm
2:45:14 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: you go around in a circle and each person has to say what has already been said and their one
2:45:22 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: until someone fucks up and gets it wrong
2:45:30 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: so lets say we were playing the rhyming one
2:46:01 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: ok ok ok I get it
2:46:06 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: ok lol
2:46:59 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: coool cool if the fuck it up they suck a lemon/or something as sour.. & the more the suck on the lemon the harder it is to play cause their mouth hurts from bitterness..
 
2:46:59 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: lol
2:47:07 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: yes :D
2:47:16 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: AND theyre training their memory at the same time
2:47:20 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: cool
2:47:28 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: for useful things such as cheating in poker and mathematics
2:47:29 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: lol
2:47:36 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: lets think of 2 more mods
2:47:38 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: modes
2:47:58 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: we have rhyming words
2:48:06 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: 2) "things"
2:48:24 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: related things you mean
2:48:27 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: the first one ...um dunno if we should use that
2:48:31 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: ye
2:48:43 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: yeah ok the first one will be numbers
2:48:58 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: should we have the people think up numbers or they pick up cards for the numbers?
2:49:03 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: i think cards
2:49:34 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: the person who loses has to suck on the lemon until the round gos to them again
2:49:51 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: we'll need a alot of lemons..
2:50:00 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: i have a lemon tree
2:50:01 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants:  ;)
2:50:05 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: whoa
2:50:11 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: woman of many talents
2:50:21 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: ahahha
2:50:29 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: ok 2 more modes
2:55:35 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: I like sentence logic,.. where one person starts a sentence by saying "The" the next person says "man" & etc.. the keep contructing a sentence until someone screws up the logic like.. one person says "
2:56:10 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: oh cool
2:56:11 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: yeah
2:56:14 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: cool
2:58:09 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: ok one more mode
3:04:21 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: this aint the most radical game in the world
3:04:26 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: but we have something y'know
3:04:32 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: agreed
3:04:38 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: and they will have fun playing it

3:26:07 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: lol keep me up to date. send me the rules.. & i'l write the abstract for the blog

5:05:14 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: So what are our modes ?
5:05:30 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: rough notes
5:05:31 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: radical game 2 - a memory game

5 modes with cards

1) numbers
first person picks up a number with a card on it, says the number out loud, and puts it face down on table
next person does the same, but says previous persons number and theirs...etc
until someone stuffs up and has to suck on lemon (or drink :P) until the next round

2) related things
first person picks up card with a topic on it, eg- animals, they say cat
next person says cat dog
next person says car dog monkey
until someone screws up

3) things that rhyme
first person picks up card with a word on it, eg- fap. they say fap cap
next person says fap cap slap
next person says fap cap slap clap
until someone screws up

4) sentence logic
first person starts a sentence, "I"
next person I think
next person I think you
next person I think you are
next person I think you are beautiful
next person I think you are beaitiful also
etc until someone fucks up

5:05:43 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: oops
5:06:12 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: can u make cards for first one...numbers 1-50 on them or something?
5:06:21 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: im working on other
5:06:29 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: *other 2
2 5:06:48 M] Anh-Tu Datura: Cards? I don't have a printer
2 5:07:03 M] Miyarei Qwertypants: make them out of paper, i cant do everything ;p
5:07:54 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: Lol ok, did you say 50 cards ?
5:08:09 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: as many as u think will work
5:08:29 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: i dont really care
2 5:09:28 M] Anh-Tu Datura: 30 is a good number, I assume we shuffle the deck ?
5:09:33 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: yep ok
5:10:08 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: Ok and the numbers don't have to be sequential ?
5:10:34 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: i guess not
5:10:40 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: but at least 1-10 do
5:10:44 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: no giant numbers
5:11:11 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: I Ll keep it to double digits
5:11:33 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: Also can I write the abstract ?
6:00:45 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: yes
6:00:53 PM] Miyarei Qwertypants: sorry was eating dinner
6:22:13 PM] Anh-Tu Datura: Lol

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

JAM

How cool is it that JAM is all our names made into an acronym!

I am quite the bright fellow, yes.

Anywhoo, let's conjure up some ideas and brew them in the magic pot. Then eat, regurgitate and repeat.

Hey...that actually is a pretty disgustingly good euphemism for brainstorming. Wooh...