Spider's Dance

Spider's Dance

Here's a little something I've been working on as a solo game project for the Solo Game Design Challenge.

I'm trying to leave it pretty self explanatory.

Tell me what you think...

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Anonymous said…
I found it to be an adequate way to pass otherwise boring time.

Sorry I can't share any poems with you. I just imagined the action in my head, without writing down the poems.

The first time I imagined it strait, as presented in the rules. The world of was more Earthdawn, at the end of the Fourth World / beginning of the Fifth World, but there were "spiders" who were the opposite of horrors, who were binding up the last of the magical energies so magic could survive and be reborn in the Sixth World.

The second time I played I imagined they were train lines and the story was along the lines of that old computer game, Gadget.

The third time, for some reason I was thinking of Orhan Pamuk's novel The New Life, so the lines were bus lines all being taken by the same man who was going back in time or existing in 5 places at once and crossing his own path so he could see and write about himself, but it kept causing problems and bus accidents.

I keep losing, meaning I always have to change an earlier move to complete the last move properly. To come up with maps I toss 25 corn kernels onto a small notepad, 10 red and 15 white. Then I might move the portals (red corn) to the outer edge, but not necessarily.

One of these day I'll write up a proper poem and send it to you along with the map.
Thursday, 20 January, 2011
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