So, has to start somewhere and my bedroom is kind of a classic place for the beginning of an idea. I was interested in movement games, of finding some structure that would make people move. I also thought that not many games make people have to say things out loud. I started to think about text and reading and how text is hidden, and reading is internal, and wanted to make it external and fun, make it public in relation to my research in public works thought the magic circle. This bought me to text as image. Then I started to think of a two-player game, with the text on the body and that people would read text off each other. This could be a game element that makes them move. But wondered how to do that. then thought about sticking text onto bodies for this, and each stuck text on the other and then each read that text of the other person. But this didn’t really have a challenge aspect and the mechanics didn’t really work in my head. If you stick the text on the other person, then to make it gameful they would have to find that text on themselves, or it needs another person in each team sticking the text on. Then came across mirror writing, and the idea developed into the text in backwards writing and then the text can only be read in a mirror, and this would cause the movement.
So, chose the bit from the tempest of Prospero about making the world, which I thought fitted in with the idea of world building in games. Also, it meant that the wordage was unusual and different and not everyday, kind of magical, and that could reinforce the circle as a space apart. Like a stage, and this text is the ‘all the worlds a stage’. I flipped it, so it was reverse, in InDesign. Then I printed it out backwards. Checked it in the mirror, just to get an idea of what it looked like in reverse. Lots of connotations like secret writing etc. Then cut it up into strips and numbered them, I decided on numbers for now as the way to find the text. So, then the game is that one at a time someone places them on parts of the other person, that make them have to manoeuvre in a certain way to see the text. Though being on my own in my bedroom, I kind of started to play around with it to the best I could. Next is to try it in a space with another person.
<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/246837616″>My frist go at home of trying out IAm 11th Dec</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/user7483393″>anton hecht</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
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