Quoted from mcornetto A corpse is discovered and several people in the town have a reason to be the murderer.  Accusations fly and the town in thrown into climate of fear and paranoia.  Dark secrets are uncovered as the towns temper boils. Then the murderer is revealed.

This idea has really grown on me and I'm thinking about this for the next game.  But I need some kind of scoring angle.  Some way to win.  Any suggestions?

Quoted from mcornetto This idea has really grown on me and I'm thinking about this for the next game.  But I need some kind of scoring angle.  Some way to win.  Any suggestions?

We might possibly have to set up a certain amount of fixed clues that will have to be written into scenes...these clues are linked to either towns people or secrets that lead to the killer...they would have to be dolled out throught the tale.

Not sure how we would score that...but if all the clues together made it obvious who the guilty character killer was, then it would be up to each writer to stay on top of the clues given in order to come up with the killer.

I've never written anything like this, so I'm not sure if I am way out in left field...but if we can discuss it a little more...my creative wheels will begin to turn a lot faster.   Right now I have a headache...I'm in a room that is being painted and it is getting to me   lol

~m~

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In case we decide to go this route...Here is a link to an ariel map for Langley...I have a call in to the Chamber to see if they have a drawn map of the stores that we can use.  There is also a wonderful wharf with a small marina.  My daughter used to work there and it had the most colorful owner...old Barney, a grumpy old man who smoked cigars.  There is a big fair there every August and a huge arts festival that takes over the main street of town every year as well...it has a little earthly, eclectic "hippy" personality   It's colorful...and beautiful and one of the best hotel listed is the Inn at Langley.  The store names are cool too: The Star Store, Mike's Place, The Dog House, The Star Bistro... It has the most beautiful sunsets, and drizzly days, seaguls and whales and seals...

Please don't feel like we have to use any of this...just thought I would try to sell it a little better.

I have to get home soon! Missing it!

Another possible idea is a monster attack/survival horror scenario, something like Dawn or Day of the dead, where we have a group of people holed up in a place, Mall/Bunker/Town/whatever, and tensions are rising, supplies are low, but help is on the way.  A helicopter is due to fly in and rescue our survivor(s) in X-days (or X-posts/turns), maybe from another location though, and our survivors must band together to make it to that location? Though some may have their own agendas.

We could have the CHARACTER AND KILL scenes, but also EVENT scenes (I guess these would preceed the KILL scenes).  This would be where someone, maybe mcornetto (or we could just take it in turns to create an event), throws a random event at us, for example our supplies are low and a small group of us must venture out into the danger zone to acquire more.  The person who created the event, also chooses which characters the event involves, but it would be up to the next poster to decide how that event pans out.  For the purpose of objectivity the poster should be someone whose character is not invovled in the scene.

I dunno, just another possible idea... Probably needs more thought.

That's an interesting suggestion too, Yohn.  A survival story strung together by EVENTS.  That's kind of the same structure as the Death Race one only that one uses ANNOUNCE.   I like the idea of EVENTS and of that scene deciding who is involved in the next scenes.  One could really control the flow of the story using that scene.

For that matter something like that could be applied to any disaster movie as well.  

Good stuff!  The next game is going to be very interesting - whatever scenario we play.    

There are so many great ideas here, i'm curious to see which one we will get into.

Michael are we going to vote ?

I think we should vote.  All ideas sound good to me.  I think the easiest in terms of possible success woud be the haunted house/castle, but again, I haven't heard a single idea that I don't like.

Ok i got an idea.

The game will based on a hospital, a "weird" hospital. There we could divide into groups the patients and the doctors.

Imagine all the weird people that could be there.

The haunted house can be mixed in with the survival theme.

That is my least favorite idea, Nik...sorry.

Quoted from Dreamscale That is my least favorite idea, Nik...sorry.

No problem.

Anyway if we'd go for a vote i know who to give my vote to.

I was thinking something like the idea Yohn mentioned but his is a lot more thought out than mine would have been, I think that is one of the better ideas for the next game.

Wherever the setting...it will be an interesting tale...

It would be killer to really come up with something unique...because much of what we throw out there has been done...especially the zombie/being hold up in a mall or other place...trying to get to another place...but hey!  People LOVE zombie movies!

If it had an interesting backstory...it could be very cool.  Maybe one that was laid out as a simple outline so we didn't get too far off our mark.

Maybe it could be a world, within a world...whatever we choose...

Here's my marketing brain coming into play...and it could possibly beef up this site too in the process, bringing new people to the site...is to send out a press release about the uniqueness of our exercise...and what we are writing.  The very fact that we come from different countries, we have never met, we represent a broad age demographically, we are male and female, etc., etc...maybe someone would take note...you never know!  If nothing else it would draw attention to this wonderful site and what it offers writers. It's the ultimate "writing game"

Of course we would need permission from our fabulous Don. *wink

We all have resources and contacts...and I'm ready for 2009 to be a BIG year! lol

And if not with this exercise...then maybe when we feel we have it together!

There is so much to explore here...but it's exciting and there is loads to think about!

~m~

Quoted from MBCgirl Wherever the setting...it will be an interesting tale... It would be killer to really come up with something unique...because much of what we throw out there has been done...especially the zombie/being hold up in a mall or other place...trying to get to another place...but hey!  People LOVE zombie movies! If it had an interesting backstory...it could be very cool.  Maybe one that was laid out as a simple outline so we didn't get too far off our mark. Maybe it could be a world, within a world...whatever we choose... Here's my marketing brain coming into play...and it could possibly beef up this site too in the process, bringing new people to the site...is to send out a press release about the uniqueness of our exercise...and what we are writing.  The very fact that we come from different countries, we have never met, we represent a broad age demographically, we are male and female, etc., etc...maybe someone would take note...you never know!  If nothing else it would draw attention to this wonderful site and what it offers writers. It's the ultimate "writing game" Of course we would need permission from our fabulous Don. *wink We all have resources and contacts...and I'm ready for 2009 to be a BIG year! lol And if not with this exercise...then maybe when we feel we have it together! There is so much to explore here...but it's exciting and there is loads to think about! ~m~

I love your thinking Morgon!!! The skie's the limit!

Sandra

I think we aren't quite ready to tell the world about this.  Give it a couple more tries and maybe then.  Of course if we can produce a marketable script using this technique then we have something to really brag about...

At the moment, I think it's best if we stick close to movies that we know - simply because it's easier to communicate something that's known to a group. If we can say it's like Dawn of the Dead or it's like Death Race 2000 then everyone can visualise it and we'll end up with better results.

Unfortunately, there is a limit to what we can do.  The stories need to fit the technique.  Gaming aside, it lends itself best to ensemble pieces.  If we try to do a single storyline sort of story, it won't work because everyone will be all over the place.  So we have to stick to concepts that can handle more than one story line.  For example: We could not do something like 'I am Legend'.

Since I'm hosting these games and I'm trying to develop this technique I'd like to skip the vote on what we do next - at least for the first few tries.   This will allow me to choose what I think is the best trial for changes to our methods.  Everyone ok with that?  That isn't to say that I won't consider your comments on what you think we should do next and that isn't to say that we won't incorporate voting into the games.

Cheers,

Michael