Guest Post: The Amazing Awesome <em>Hunger Games</em> Role-Playing Writing Game!
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[box type="note"]Biljana here! Today I have Ibtisam Ahmed with a guest about the amazing Hunger Games role-playing game![/box] The upcoming release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has a mountain of expectations to live up to as fans of the novels and the first film (and, dare I add, Jennifer Lawrence) are waiting with bated breath. The second film in the series promises an explosion of creativity across the internet, from trigger-happy GIF creators to serious online reviewers. Of course, no squealing fandom would be complete without that unshakeable cornerstone of imagination: fan fiction. As someone who shamelessly indulges in writing fan fiction, it would be my pleasure to share a writing exercise that my friends helped to create at the University of Nottingham Creative Writing Society. There could very well be better and older versions out there, but this particular version is all ours. The premise is simple. It’s a written role-playing game where the players try to write each other to death in a written Hunger Games. At the start, they are either Tributes fighting in the Games, or a Gamemaker manipulating the whole thing. Tributes write pieces in turns describing the events of the Games and if their piece is chosen to be read out for that round, it becomes canon. All following pieces need to adhere to the continuity established by the pieces read before them. Through the course of the Games, Tributes who are killed become either Gamemakers or Sponsors who continue to affect the session until only one Tribute is left victorious.
Guest Post: The Amazing Awesome <em>Hunger Games</em> Role-Playing Writing Game!
Guest Post: The Amazing Awesome <em>Hunger…
Guest Post: The Amazing Awesome <em>Hunger Games</em> Role-Playing Writing Game!
[box type="note"]Biljana here! Today I have Ibtisam Ahmed with a guest about the amazing Hunger Games role-playing game![/box] The upcoming release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has a mountain of expectations to live up to as fans of the novels and the first film (and, dare I add, Jennifer Lawrence) are waiting with bated breath. The second film in the series promises an explosion of creativity across the internet, from trigger-happy GIF creators to serious online reviewers. Of course, no squealing fandom would be complete without that unshakeable cornerstone of imagination: fan fiction. As someone who shamelessly indulges in writing fan fiction, it would be my pleasure to share a writing exercise that my friends helped to create at the University of Nottingham Creative Writing Society. There could very well be better and older versions out there, but this particular version is all ours. The premise is simple. It’s a written role-playing game where the players try to write each other to death in a written Hunger Games. At the start, they are either Tributes fighting in the Games, or a Gamemaker manipulating the whole thing. Tributes write pieces in turns describing the events of the Games and if their piece is chosen to be read out for that round, it becomes canon. All following pieces need to adhere to the continuity established by the pieces read before them. Through the course of the Games, Tributes who are killed become either Gamemakers or Sponsors who continue to affect the session until only one Tribute is left victorious.