The fun game me, Azuretalon and Tappy made up
Apr 8, 2012 17:39:30 GMT -8
Post by Forresst on Apr 8, 2012 17:39:30 GMT -8
Well, I was gonna not post this until I finished thinking up my guy for the game, but then I thought "man, I'm slow when I'm working at stupid o'clock in the morning and being exhausted all the time" so here it is, minus my writeup, which will come later.
See, there was this thread Azuretalon wrote, asking what music (if any) GMs use to inspire their world-building or character concepts. A couple of people chimed in the right way, and then Tappy and I barged in, posted up about 50 youtube videos of old goth club hits, and reminisced fondly of times gone by. Yep. Derailed it like a couple of pros. But then I thought it would be awesome if we all had like a chain letter game! Basically, someone posts a song for the next person in line, who takes that song, and writes a character or does some world-building to fit it! Then the second person makes sure to put a song in for the third person, etc etc etc.
I spent a good 12 minutes (which is way more time than it sounds like) figuring out the best way to make this work. So here goes:
1) There's 2 things to do when you play the game. Respond to the thread saying you're in, which will claim the last song offered before you posted.
2) When you say you're in, post another song for the next person. You don't have to write anything to get into the game, just post that you're in.
3) You have to post the song in a way that's easily accessible to whoever claims your song. So far, youtube is the favourite.
4) Take your new song and write something for it. Come back later, and post the writeup! When you post the writeup, you don't have to include another new song or nothin', although I'm willing to bet it'd be helpful to include the song you were inspired by.
5) Songs can be from any genre, and awesomely, the more variety we get going, the better. So don't be afraid to trade in some heavy metal for an old country tune. We can have fun, broaden horizons, and make creative juice flow!
Here's my crappy, text-equivalent-to-MS-paint-drawing example:
Tappy, posts a bunch of awesome songs. I pick out this one:
Judas, by Imperative reaction.
So I post a thing and I say "HEY I LIKE THIS SONG AND WANT TO WRITE SOMETHING AWESOME HURR HURR I AM TROLL WHO CAPS SHOUTS"
but then, so I don't break the chain letter, I decide to leave this:
Breakfast in Vegas, by Praga Khan.
Now Azuretalon writes in and says "I am in! This is now my song to write!!"
And he leaves this song:
Metal Cure, by Sabaton.
and then other stuff happens and then we cha cha!
Now originally this was kind of a closed loop because well, derailers make clumps. So here is the start of the new loop!
This is my song that I leave for you, mister or missus next poster!
Liquid Sky, by Space Buddha
Oh boy oh boy oh boy I hope this is as fun as I think it will be
See, there was this thread Azuretalon wrote, asking what music (if any) GMs use to inspire their world-building or character concepts. A couple of people chimed in the right way, and then Tappy and I barged in, posted up about 50 youtube videos of old goth club hits, and reminisced fondly of times gone by. Yep. Derailed it like a couple of pros. But then I thought it would be awesome if we all had like a chain letter game! Basically, someone posts a song for the next person in line, who takes that song, and writes a character or does some world-building to fit it! Then the second person makes sure to put a song in for the third person, etc etc etc.
I spent a good 12 minutes (which is way more time than it sounds like) figuring out the best way to make this work. So here goes:
1) There's 2 things to do when you play the game. Respond to the thread saying you're in, which will claim the last song offered before you posted.
2) When you say you're in, post another song for the next person. You don't have to write anything to get into the game, just post that you're in.
3) You have to post the song in a way that's easily accessible to whoever claims your song. So far, youtube is the favourite.
4) Take your new song and write something for it. Come back later, and post the writeup! When you post the writeup, you don't have to include another new song or nothin', although I'm willing to bet it'd be helpful to include the song you were inspired by.
5) Songs can be from any genre, and awesomely, the more variety we get going, the better. So don't be afraid to trade in some heavy metal for an old country tune. We can have fun, broaden horizons, and make creative juice flow!
Here's my crappy, text-equivalent-to-MS-paint-drawing example:
Tappy, posts a bunch of awesome songs. I pick out this one:
Judas, by Imperative reaction.
So I post a thing and I say "HEY I LIKE THIS SONG AND WANT TO WRITE SOMETHING AWESOME HURR HURR I AM TROLL WHO CAPS SHOUTS"
but then, so I don't break the chain letter, I decide to leave this:
Breakfast in Vegas, by Praga Khan.
Now Azuretalon writes in and says "I am in! This is now my song to write!!"
And he leaves this song:
Metal Cure, by Sabaton.
and then other stuff happens and then we cha cha!
Now originally this was kind of a closed loop because well, derailers make clumps. So here is the start of the new loop!
This is my song that I leave for you, mister or missus next poster!
Liquid Sky, by Space Buddha
Oh boy oh boy oh boy I hope this is as fun as I think it will be