Day 1: Life Journey/Personal Reflection/Brainstorm
Main goal for today is to have notes that respond to each of these 3 main questions/concepts for a board game that might be an exploration of your life. Don't worry about whether things are good or important enough - just write everything down, so you have more resources to play with later.
1. Environment Design
+ What environments describe our life? Are there multiple?
+ Do you want to build a game based on your life out of real/literal things? Or are there symbolic landscapes that feel more evocative?
+ What are some possible landscapes we could us to describe our experiences? (An airplane taking us to different countries, a treasure map, a moon landing, a river?)
2. Obstacles - things in our lives that slow us down or force us to deviate in our path
+ What is an obstacle? What are some ways they might manifest in someone's life?
+ What obstacles have we faced, or expect we might have to come up against at some point?
+ What could we use to represent those obstacles? (Anxiety Monsters, Walls, Sisyphus etc)
3. Pathways through Life
+ What does your path look like? Smooth? Rocky? Like a maze, a garden, a golden brick road, a stairway to heaven? What are some different kinds of pathways?
+ What support structures exist in your life? (Family, friends, religion, sports, time/coming of age/future plans?)
+ What could we use to represent them? (bridges, helping hands, ladders, time warps?)
+ What are your goals? (To get through High School, to become an adult, to pass regents, to know yourself?)
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