LET’S START ANOTHER MEME: THE GAME DESIGNER’S PUB GAME
Now that the #backgames meme is going quite well, actually, via comments and its twitter equivalent, let’s work on the second.
Via the Guardian’s games blog, Sony Online designer Sheri Graner Ray and Metaplace’s Raph Koster have set the wheels in motion on The Pub Game, which asks you to create a hypothetical pub/restaurant as created by any given game designer.
Examples:
If Sid Meier created this restaurant, first we’d have to invent the Chinese, and the Koreans and all the other Asian cultures before we could invent the food that would then be served in the restaurant…
If Will Wright created this restaurant, we’d have to continually monitor what each employee was doing, instructing them when to cook, when to clean and when to go to the bathroom, but eventually, it would burn down anyway.. and if it didn’t a natural disaster would occur to make sure it was destroyed.
If Richard Garriott created this restaurant, it would have been started by him and a number of his friends. At the restaurant, the customers could harvest the grain, mill it into flour, mix it and bake it into bread… which of course would have nothing to do with anything on the menu.
Maybe kick things off in #gamedevpubgame?
Game designer archetypes feed fun [guardian.co.uk]
Previously:
Let’s start a new meme: #backgames from finish to start – Offworld
See more posts about: Offworld Originals
