Why do my work triumphs have to involve situations either so esoteric or so mind-numbing that no person in their right mind would want to sit through the set-up in order to enjoy the punchline? Bah. I guess I'll simply have to assure you all that I am teh aw3some as far as my job goes - sometimes, anyway. :)
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Played a bit of Once Upon A Time last night with the regular rping group - interesting game. I'd be tempted to buy it just for the cards, since I can see how they'd be a cool ideas-generator. (I seem to be posting a lot about random constraint generators at the moment. :) How good are the stories that the game generates? Well... mixed. Actually, no, pretty bad - and that's not just because I introduced a troupe of juggling sheep. (The shepherdess needed to distract the pirates from the beautiful cabin-boy, okay?) Unsurprisingly, the narrative has a tendency to sprawl, and there's very little in the way coherency; but I daresay you might be able to carve out an interesting story from a game, using it as a first draft.
There was also talk about other teams in the festival - specifically, one team who had a poor dynamic within the creative core. One of the problems that they seemed to have was that the main guy wanted to do something that the others didn't believe in, and had very little to do with the genre that they got given. That seems kind of weird to me, by the way - if you have a short you want to make, why don't you just make it? Why enter into the competition if you don't want the challenge of playing within the genre handed to you? I mean, if you were in the situation where you didn't know the genre, like those poor schoolkids that got "Film Noir", okay; but that didn't seem to be the case.
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One great thing about IT is the crazy terminology that you end up with from simple, logical steps. Latest example? Honey monkeys.
Hooray for "honey monkeys"! If nothing else, that's an awesome team name!
Speaking of monkeys - the Spogemonkeys are advertising sandwiches in the US. Something very weird is going on in the world.
Posted by svend at May 18, 2005 12:28 PMMan, you should try having a job were you can only publically discuss your triumphs in the most general terms (because you only want to reveal your employer to people you know and trust).
Posted by: Scott A at May 19, 2005 2:04 PM