Post by Beelzebibble on Oct 29, 2009 23:50:00 GMT -5
Let's play a game in honor of Scribblenauts, which may just be the best video game ever (will confirm once I buy. But expect a yes).
This game is real, real simple. We need a setting first. Someplace fun and interesting and not at all cliched. I'm thinking Tokyo!
All that's going to happen is that I am going to name a noun. A person, an animal, an inanimate object, an abstract concept, whatever. I am going to enter it using a form like this:
>TYRANNOSAURUS REX
Now there is a Tyrannosaurus rex in Tokyo.
Pictured: Tokyo
The next person to post has to give a short (one or two sentences) description of how the noun that I entered interacts with the current environment. So they might write something like
"The T-rex goes on a rampage, devouring or trampling every poor citizen it can get its teeth or feet on, respectively."
Or
"The T-rex tries to cross the street while the little orange hand is still glowing. Passing drivers honk in outrage and the T-rex meekly backs onto the sidewalk to wait for the light to change."
Or
"The T-rex finds a fountain in the square and stomps around in it gleefully. Water splashes everywhere and the T-rex's soles are soon coated with pennies or whatever they throw into fountains on the other side of the Pacific."
And then the person who wrote that would then post another noun. Like
>EXISTENTIALISM
So the next person to post, making use of any combination of the elements currently on the table, would write something about the T-rex and/or the citizens of Tokyo trying to come to terms with the works of Nietzsche. Or something like that. And then they would enter yet another noun and the sandbox fun really gets underway!
The main rule, I guess, I already threw in there, which is that you're not obliged to show the effects of each new noun on everything that was already on the field. Just find one or two elements there that work well with what you were just given. And then use your own noun to shake things up a little bit.
Also, let's allow prepositions and stuff if you want to cause your new noun to interact with specific previous nouns. So you could post something like
>Put GLASSES on TYRANNOSAURUS REX
>Put GEORGE WASHINGTON on TYRANNOSAURUS REX
>Put SKYSCRAPER on TYRANNOSAURUS REX
And as many other possibilities as there are prepositions times nouns! Which is a lot of possibilities kids
Okay? Ready? You're ready. Here we go.
>ASTRONAUT
This game is real, real simple. We need a setting first. Someplace fun and interesting and not at all cliched. I'm thinking Tokyo!
All that's going to happen is that I am going to name a noun. A person, an animal, an inanimate object, an abstract concept, whatever. I am going to enter it using a form like this:
>TYRANNOSAURUS REX
Now there is a Tyrannosaurus rex in Tokyo.
Pictured: Tokyo
The next person to post has to give a short (one or two sentences) description of how the noun that I entered interacts with the current environment. So they might write something like
"The T-rex goes on a rampage, devouring or trampling every poor citizen it can get its teeth or feet on, respectively."
Or
"The T-rex tries to cross the street while the little orange hand is still glowing. Passing drivers honk in outrage and the T-rex meekly backs onto the sidewalk to wait for the light to change."
Or
"The T-rex finds a fountain in the square and stomps around in it gleefully. Water splashes everywhere and the T-rex's soles are soon coated with pennies or whatever they throw into fountains on the other side of the Pacific."
And then the person who wrote that would then post another noun. Like
>EXISTENTIALISM
So the next person to post, making use of any combination of the elements currently on the table, would write something about the T-rex and/or the citizens of Tokyo trying to come to terms with the works of Nietzsche. Or something like that. And then they would enter yet another noun and the sandbox fun really gets underway!
The main rule, I guess, I already threw in there, which is that you're not obliged to show the effects of each new noun on everything that was already on the field. Just find one or two elements there that work well with what you were just given. And then use your own noun to shake things up a little bit.
Also, let's allow prepositions and stuff if you want to cause your new noun to interact with specific previous nouns. So you could post something like
>Put GLASSES on TYRANNOSAURUS REX
>Put GEORGE WASHINGTON on TYRANNOSAURUS REX
>Put SKYSCRAPER on TYRANNOSAURUS REX
And as many other possibilities as there are prepositions times nouns! Which is a lot of possibilities kids
Okay? Ready? You're ready. Here we go.
>ASTRONAUT