Seeking office horror stories
Mar. 25th, 2009 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jducoeurI seem to have accidentally wound up with the high concept for my game for Intercon next year. (As so often, it's all Christian's fault: he is always a font of game ideas.)
To that end, I am looking for any and all ideas for Drip -- the water-cooler horror game. It's going to be a vicious satire of All Things Office. The ideas are already flowing pretty quickly, but I welcome more: if you have character ideas, situations or just war stories about Office Life, send them along and I might work them in. Feel free to brainstorm wildly: weird and unlikely isn't necessarily a bar here. (Those who remember Panel will know how willing I am to get downright strange in my scenarios.)
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tpau, I'm not bidding it yet. Among other things, I haven't figured out the game's scope yet. It might be a one-hour 10-person Z game, a two-hour 20-person Sunday-or-Friday game, or a full four-hour 25-to-30-person slot. Once I understand how big the game is, I can think about bidding it...)
To that end, I am looking for any and all ideas for Drip -- the water-cooler horror game. It's going to be a vicious satire of All Things Office. The ideas are already flowing pretty quickly, but I welcome more: if you have character ideas, situations or just war stories about Office Life, send them along and I might work them in. Feel free to brainstorm wildly: weird and unlikely isn't necessarily a bar here. (Those who remember Panel will know how willing I am to get downright strange in my scenarios.)
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tpau, I'm not bidding it yet. Among other things, I haven't figured out the game's scope yet. It might be a one-hour 10-person Z game, a two-hour 20-person Sunday-or-Friday game, or a full four-hour 25-to-30-person slot. Once I understand how big the game is, I can think about bidding it...)
Re: My handful
Date: 2009-03-26 07:48 pm (UTC)That last one does hit a little close to home, I'm afraid. Our last CEO spent months going around asking everyone what we should rename the company to, shooting down every name suggested, and pushing his own name of "Zing": no matter how much everyone else objected to the idea, or pointed that not only was zing.com taken, but every reasonable variation like xing.com as well, he was bound and determined. Then he decided he wanted "Zingdom", except that was taken as well.
Finally, he managed to pay a marketing company to agree with him and find the domain zing.dm. Which led me from my original mantra of "Convoq. With a q. It's not my fault." to "Zingdom. With a 'dumb'. It's not my fault."...
Re: My handful
Date: 2009-03-26 07:53 pm (UTC)And I'm sure that convinced the doubters.
...a dungeon master named Zing?
Re: My handful
Date: 2009-03-27 03:03 am (UTC)-- Dagonell