An Introduction
This is a game I came up with in college, then resurfaced with a shiner presentation at university. It gives you a plausible reason to enter people’s lives without too much fuss and shows an intertwining network of social connections, while keeping communication lighthearted.
Concept
This photographic game is nomination based and lends itself to other art forms such as sketching, video content creation and journalistic writing. The hunter of the game nominates the first person, depending on what you are searching for within the hunt, it can be anything you can think of. As an example you nominate someone because they once made you laugh so much that a small amount of pee came out. We all have that person in our lives...and if you don't...do this exact version of the game. So, once you found this person take their portrait, their caption is the reason you chose that person. For example, [pictured: John Doe] "he made me wet myself...in a good way". You then get your nominee to nominate someone that made their heart skip a beat because of their humour, depending on the scope of the game. I normally say that for a your first game, you should be able to do all pictures in the same day. I'm working on a concept that may take months/years, depending on what I find. You keep going till a natural end or until you reach your self imposed target.
New Game?
When I was 10 I had an asthma attack that almost killed me, my lungs had seized up to an extent that it was impossible to get air into me. The doctors paralysed my lungs and a doctor called Drinker breathed for me, using a make-shift hand child pump for hours, until I was transported to Guys hospital (Greenwich hospital didn't have any child sized breathing apparatus; it was shortly closed, but I do wonder how many kids weren't as lucky as I was).
There is a couple of people that I have met in life that are noteworthy in the creation of my identity as it appears today, but none of them have directly saved my life unlike Drinker… Though I never met the person that saved my life, I still want to say ‘Thank You!‘ The idea is to track her down and start a new game of hunt with people that have pivotable influence on the nominees’ lives.
However, so far I can't find Drinker and there is a possibility that I never will, but to the person reading this, whoever you are, give your own version of this game a try.
Nostalgically,
Chris at RockdoveRehab