You guys ...
This hack just made a turn for the serious.
Which hack? Fullest House
I realized what its really about: an extended family pushing away dealing with loss while the adult struggle to raise the kids, and the kids try to be happy.
Adding question to playbooks such that:
The Parent
Gender: Man, woman, ambiguous, transgressing, or concealed
Who did you lose? Ask your cousin.
How were they lost? Ask your best friend
How do you cope: coke, cleaning, popularity, music, comedy, investmens, netflix
That is, the parent chooses their gender. The Cousin explains who was lost, and the best friend tells us how. Everyone is a suffers, and no one is really in control of themselves or the situation they find themselves in.
Each character has a means of coping, which will probably affect conditions or something. That's not incredibly important right now
The relevant insight really is: the hack is about putting aside your own loss while you deal with something more important. Everyone cops, but sometimes not well.
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To paraphrase (and intentionally misread) Voltaire: If Steven Universe did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.
ReplyDeleteThe parallels between Sam Zeitlin designing The Visitor in 2010 (the text is possibly lost to time, but it and all games from that contest are discussed here: http://story-games.com/forums/discussion/12460/little-game-chef-the-results) having never seen Mork and Mindy or Alf struck me.