OFP: The Beginnening
Originally published at Expertologist. You can comment here or there.
So the plan is for Opportunities For Play, the whole game-in-a-week experiment I first talked about here, to start next week. It’s massively bad timing, with with milestones on both games I’m working on due that Monday and a few dozen other things that need as much of my attention as I can give them, and there’s a panicky part of my brain begging me to reconsider. After thinking it over for the last week or so, though, I’ve come to realize there’s no such thing as a convenient time. Everything about this idea defies convenience - if I did have the free time, I’d probably spend it plopped on the couch rewatching Buffy or picking my way through Jade Empire, leaving the game till the last minute and forcing it to be finished in a frantic rush. This way there’s still the frantic rush, but it can be spread out over a few days. No, really, this is a better idea.
In the meantime, I need a fishbowl. The idea is for each game after the first one to be built around a theme of a single word (”gravity”) or a short sentence (”Where did you leave it?”), providing me with both a direction to think in and a challenge to overcome. While I am clearly super clever and have a few ideas for themes already, any and all suggestions are welcome. Toss any ideas you might have in the comments and they’ll go into the fishbowl just as soon as I have one.
This is going to be fun.