2018-09-16
We played some more of Into the Labyrinth. It was my first time trying it. I don't think I understood it fully, thinking it was about issuing "commands" with particular types of music rather than keeping a "state" and altering it (so, while I'm on the left side, I keep playing low notes). The second interpretation makes much more sense.
We also played some old favorites: Musical Tetris, Djent Game, Cue cards with two conductors and Two-headed soloist. This last one was supposed to be a variant with negative interaction - the accompanist could replace one of the soloists any time if they were "doing poorly". In practice this didn't seem to work because we were too nice :P We played Democratic Chord Writing with a variant during the soloing phase. One person played the solo at a time but when they got tired they could swap roles with someone playing part of the chord. We also played Agents (another first for me, it's a good one), and attempted playing In C. (Sheet music, aaaaaa! Could be fun, but next time we should get some print-outs with a larger font.)
The last thing we tried was a musical version of charades. We picked out a (semi-)random word from a book and tried to convey it via music. It kind of worked as a game but I think it could use some improving. I'd like to try a variant with a limited set of words to guess from, maybe with some Dixit-like (or Drawful-like) mechanics (everyone gets only one, secret shot, and some of the words are fake ones given by the players).
