{"id":291,"date":"2011-12-27T17:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2011-12-27T17:23:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:23:12","slug":"winner-winner-chicken-dinner-reverb-broads-2011-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"Winner Winner Chicken Dinner: Reverb Broads 2011 #22"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reverb Broads 2011, December 22:<\/em><\/strong> If someone made a board game of your life, what would it look like? What pieces would you need to play? (courtesy of ME)<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m a gamer, married to a game designer, and<\/em> this is my prompt–it’s pretty unforgivable that I’m late in responding to it. If it were a game based on my life today, though, it would be Attack of the Alien Snot Invaders, and the object of the game would be to string two coherent thoughts together through the stuffed-up haze I’m in.<\/p>\n

But I can do better than that. And while I love<\/em> Niki’s answer of Calvinball, I can think of a few specific design features that capture some of the skills it takes to navigate my life.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Every color on the board is assigned a different color word. If you call a space by the wrong color word, all the assigned color words change.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The board looks like the one for Life<\/em>, but the college portion takes up half the board, and you get nothing (at least in-game) for making it through.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Every three minutes, you roll a die. If it comes up odd, you answer an extremely random trivia question. If it comes up even, you have to recall the location of a vital object belonging to another player. If you fail either of these tasks, a ninja sneaks up behind you and blows an air horn in your ear.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Every five minutes, you have to complete a task of mental or physical dexterity. You can’t move forward until you successfully accomplish it. Once you’ve managed to do it, it’s assumed that you can do it again anytime, so dexterity challenges stack every time you’re assigned a new one.<\/p>\n

\u2022 If you want to choose which space you’re going to move to next, you have to make another player guess a movie title. You may either draw something using only one straight line and one circle, or you may say one, and only one, word, as many times or ways as you like.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At random intervals, a midget runs up and smashes your fingers with a meat tenderizer, just to keep the pain fresh and unpredictable.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At a different random interval, other midgets run up. They may smother you with affection, or scream dire imprecations. There’s no way to know which it’s going to be until they’re already in your lap.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Other players earn points by piling crap in your play space.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The other player you like best has to play from a different room. You may text all you want, but while you text, more crap piles up.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Every time you ask for a moment of quiet to think about your next move, someone inserts ten spaces into the board between you and the next designated rest space.<\/p>\n

\u2022 There’s no compensation structure, but every ten minutes, someone compliments 1) your hair color, 2) your grammar, or 3) the least important thing you’re doing at the time.<\/p>\n

I’m sure Hasbro will jump all over this, so buy stock in ProfBanks Games now!<\/p>\n

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