Let's start another meme: the game designer's pub game
Now that the #backgames meme is going quite well, actually, via comments and its twitter equivalent, let's work on the second.
Via the Guardian's games blog, Sony Online designer Sheri Graner Ray and Metaplace's Raph Koster have set the wheels in motion on The Pub Game, which asks you to create a hypothetical pub/restaurant as created by any given game designer.
Examples:
If Sid Meier created this restaurant, first we'd have to invent the Chinese, and the Koreans and all the other Asian cultures before we could invent the food that would then be served in the restaurant...If Will Wright created this restaurant, we'd have to continually monitor what each employee was doing, instructing them when to cook, when to clean and when to go to the bathroom, but eventually, it would burn down anyway.. and if it didn't a natural disaster would occur to make sure it was destroyed.
If Richard Garriott created this restaurant, it would have been started by him and a number of his friends. At the restaurant, the customers could harvest the grain, mill it into flour, mix it and bake it into bread... which of course would have nothing to do with anything on the menu.
Maybe kick things off in #gamedevpubgame?
Game designer archetypes feed fun [guardian.co.uk]
Previously:
Let's start a new meme: #backgames from finish to start - Offworld
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Anonymous Anonymous
#1 – 11:24 AM February 24, 2009
If Hideo Kojima created this restaurant, everyone would talk on their cell phones a lot and try to sneak out on the check. #gamedevpubgame
If Suda 51 created this restaurant, you'd have to cut people in half with a katana to get a seat and it would only serve LSD #gamedevpubgame
If Shigeru Miyamoto created this restaurant, it would be casual dining. #gamedevpubgame (ZING!)
Anonymous Anonymous
#2 – 11:32 AM February 24, 2009
If Jonathan Blow created this restaurant, you'd eat dessert first. Like, forty times. And then your date would run away. #gamedevpubgame
bfarn
#3 – 1:05 PM February 25, 2009
If LucasArts created this restaurant, you would have to try ordering each entree on the menu, possibly in combination with each appetizer, before they would accept your order.
Daemon
#4 – 1:51 PM February 25, 2009
If SquarEnix made the restaurant, people would walk in and steal any money or items left in anything that can be opened.
Also, no food or drink would actually be sold - people would just mill around. But at least there would be a floorshow.
bfarn
#5 – 2:12 PM February 25, 2009
If Team ICO created this restaurant, there would be no tables, no other patrons, no food.... But it would somehow still be amazing.