#improv game

[bugbeast]

MUTE is a very simple 18-card game I made so long ago it kinda feels like a different life at this point. It's basically charades, but with colors instead of categories and you're not allowed to talk at all aside from explaining the rules; any player communication beyond that is done via gestures.

It has four rules variations - similar to my other game - so I won't go into detail about the specifics of each one, but the general run-down is:

Players pick a theme; you're free to come up with your own, but several "Theme" cards are included if you don't have the imagination juice to think of one

During a turn, a player chooses a color (how a player "chooses" differs between rule variants) and acts out something related to that color that corresponds to the theme (example: Theme is sports, color is green, player acts out a golf swing)

Other players have to guess what color their actions represent (again, this differs between variants. I mean, highly differs. In one rule variant you don't even guess at all, in fact. Though that one's more of an improv exercise in game form)

I considered leaving this game lost to the void (i.e. unpublished) since it's very minimalistic; there's basically no art save for some little pictures used to illustrate the communication gestures. I had other plans for the game, but those never came to fruition.

But, eeeehhh…I figured since it's done I may as well make it available. It's on the Game Crafter for 6.99 USD (not including shipping). Or if you want a game with nicer art you can pick up Jewel Thief! Eh? Eh? okay . . .

I guess that's all for now

[owlheartt]

1. What is your opinion on the stock market

2. If your pets could talk what would be the first thing they’d say to you

3. Do you think that it’s important to fold laundry before you put it away

1. The stock market is good. When I was 5 my father bought me shares and now, 2 days later, I am so wealthy I have three mcmansions. Stocks are incredibly valuable as long as you know how to play the game right.

2. My goldfish Bartholowmulus would explain to me how my coffee is poorly made and he cannot keep swimming in it. Unfortunately, I prefer dark coffee and he will simply have to live with it.

3. No, first the laundry man had to take your clean clothes away to the farm so as to tidy up the clothes, and once it is freshly dyed and changed to the newest fashion, then it can be piled on the chair in my closet.

[sunfloo-wers]

It's not quite like these (more like the first one) but a friend and I are always collecting random "what if" scenario topics to have in-depth conversations (or affectionate arguments) about. Be it "the ethics of vampirism" or "how to defeat the reverse Trojan horse that is a duck that breaths fire, has random people inside it, and the "only" way to kill it is to draw a magical sword that Will Curse You". very normal topics you see. Can definitely recommend debating increasingly unlikely scenarios as a topic with a friend. It gets a good back and forth going, and I've found that to be more interesting than a "one person does a rant/speech" improv game, not that those aren't fun sometimes! just make sure all parties know it's lighthearted :D

ok so there’s a game me and my friends play called “don’t get me started” and basically someone gives another person a random topic and they have to go on an angry rant about it and it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to us at parties and car rides so I highly recommend playing sometimes with your friends

[doreensladle]

it continues.

[minigenos]

[indigonite]

my main criticism for Baldurs Gate 3 is that you can’t keep wreaking havoc if you accidentally polymorph into a cat

[verflares]

just how long is forever? // not long enough, with you

pssst. check this out on inprnt :]

[hawberries]

i've actually been aglaeapilled and garmentmaxing this week… i'm obsessed with this woman AND she's the most fun to play i've ever had in this game

[hirodraga]

muriel post-epilogue choppin wood for the hut :) the hair keep getting in his face

[selfcaremyselfcare]

[owlheartt]

Have you ever found something you weren't supposed to when exploring? Or maybe just something extremely bizarre, or magical?

(You said improv. i tried. This sounds more like a story promt tho. Oops.)

Once I was wandering through the forest when I found these train tracks? Really cool tracks with plants poking out of them. I walked along that for a while until I got to this chipped statue? It was a gargoyle thing that looked pretty beat up. I couldn’t move it too well but I managed to turn it over. There was a monster high doll tucked into the back and really I figured no one else was coming for it so I took it home with me? I gave it its own shelf in my room and everything, but now it faces my bed and occasionally I wake up in the middle of the night and we just stare at each other.

[lucabyte]

even dogs pass the mirror test

[zfedraws]

Oh Tara, we’re really in it now….

[inafieldofstarflowers]

So you’re in college and one day this student athlete who’s in your improv class asks you to be his date at an event for his team. It’s nothing serious—everyone knows he’s in a committed relationship, but it’s also a long-distance relationship, and he explains that they’ve decided to keep it at least semi-open while apart, so you could totally hook up with him—and he’s nice and easy to talk to, and so you overlook the fact that his team is consistently wrapped up in some scandal or another (especially the new guy). The drive there is pretty chill, except as soon as you get there, the coach gives the star player (who’s also famous) a bottle of vodka and he just goes to town on it, which is weird, but whatever. And then you go inside and find your seats, which are across from the team’s rivals (which—really? who planned this?), and the world’s tensest, most confusing conversation devolves into the new guy ripping into the other team’s captain (who, by the way, is also famous), and you all get moved to sit with the coaches, which is weird but fine. After eating, things are good—you dance with your date, some people have a volleyball game going, and other than some altercation happening off to the side of the room (you’re pretty sure the guy’s team captain just hit a guy in the balls with her heels), everything is normal, and eventually the coach rounds you up and you head back to campus, and after that you don’t really do anything with the guy again, but around thanksgiving one of his cousins kills a guy, and then the new guy comes back from winter break with one of the face tattoos the two famous guy and their friend have, and then a few months later he gets kidnapped by his dad (who was apparently a serial killer he was running from?) and even with all of that they somehow not only make it to finals but are the first team to ever beat their rivals out—and for the championship trophy, no less—and the other team’s captain maybe tries to kill the new guy on live tv but the guy from improv’s other cousin stops him by breaking his arm, and shortly after the game the news breaks that the other team’s captain killed himself after losing, after which his coach steps down and a bunch of information starts leaking suggesting that the rival team was some kind of cult. Your name is Jim, and you kind of think you should quit improv and maybe transfer schools.