Hello Audience! Use this thread to talk about the thread here: https://hubski.com/pub?id=164736
What do you like? What do you hate? Did you participate? Was it hard?
Hey mknod -- for a future improv game, let's try the one-line-at-a-time story. thenewgreen started some collaborative story writing some time ago - but I don't think it was one line at a time. For a first line, I suggest the one in rule #4 in this thread coined by minimum_wage.
Oh my god:) when I was suuuuper little we used to play a game where we'd take a college ruled sheet of paper and fold it at the lines. Someone would start with a sentence on top, pass it on to the next. The person it was passed to would read that first sentence, and continue the story on the next line. Then they would fold the line that they read, i.e. the first line, and pass it on to the next person. So, the person writing line 3 hasn't seen line 1, only line 2. Person 4 only sees line 3. This continues to the bottom of the page or however long they want, and we declare the closing statement for anyone to write. When you unfold the lines and starting reading the story, it's drop-dead funny. Mad Libs on steroids. I don't know how you'd implement that on Hubski but you just splashed a bucket of nostalgia over my head.
nowaypablo, I used to play that with cW and our wives but with poetry. It made for some interesting poems and a lot of laughs.
The more a game relies on its players, the more fun it is because the potential is in the players' hands now. Cards Against Humanity anyone?
This one seems like it's a bit harder than I anticipated, but I like the things that were come up with. nowaypablo suggestion by itself made me laugh very hard. Then we have mitvit and lil and eightbitsamurai pulling the strings of the story and tying things together in a package. One cool thing that flagamuffin throw showed me was that online, the audience can actually look up references you make. Mostly its best to avoid references in live shows so people don't feel left out of the joke. But with the ability to instantly share the reference it works out great.
Note: I think flagamuffin was mocking me and my link to the giant sequoia. He tips us off with his completely unnecessary relink to the giant sequoia, and his "duh-let-me-label-explicitly-what-stories-need" links. (This is an antagonista, this is a conflict.) I should have badged him ironically. You only get the joke though if you click the links.
This one was harder because it put the pressure pretty much entirely on one person: the closer. The two beforehand could do anything they wanted really, but the closer was the one that had to deliver a satisfying punch line to an audience.
Well, that's probably something I should have specified in the post too. When you are doing improv, you want to make sure that you are leaving things open enough for other people. So even if you are doing ACT 1 or ACT 2 you should be leaving little hints and clues in the story for the next person to pick up on. I think this was done very well for just being text based.
Agreed, for sure. Honestly I can only picture this getting better as people get more comfortable both with the improve and more importantly, with each other. Also, it's goddamn hilarious. I'm going to e-mail my old public speaking teacher who did improv with us, if he suggests anything good I'll pm you with something to work with in the future.I think this was done very well for just being text based.
mitvit, flagamuffin and mknod, Time Reversal reminds me a lot of Stephen Kings Afterlife. Perhaps our character is in purgatory?
Hmmm I don't know about that. Personally, I kind of hate when stories have religious elements to them. Maybe a personal purgatory? Maybe he'll die doing an endless loop of Groundhogs Day like scenarios in the separate rooms, using each one as a reset button. What it also reminds me of is this Exit 57 Sketch:
In regards to your opening to my suggestion: That was such a good line, like perfectly written and a touch of funny with the uniform thing. Svelte is the best word ever.Her hair was dark and luxurious, her bosum ample, her figure svelte in a tight military uniform. She entered the cafe and sat across from him, looking directly into his eyes.