Hi there !
I wish I found this website sooner ! I'm Rose (she/they), I'm a french free music composer (as putting my music under Creative Commons 0 license) and a music game designer (and a game designer with Bitsy tools). I use to do some workshop where I play with people with instructions to create musical moments inspired by Fluxus and John Cage. With those workshops, I found myself compiling those instructions into games, the first one was :
-The AWESOME MUSIC BOARD GAME, which is a Goose Game like music game. I had the opportunity to play it just once with improvisation beginner and it was a weird experience. I discovered that this game was pretty hard to play while playing an instrument, listening to your partners and so on… I think this is not a great music party game, but I think it can be great tool to produce music to be played for a public that will listen to the cacophonous sound produced by the players. All the creative process has been archived on my blog here : [https://rrrrroseazerty.neocities.org/posts/2021-12-29-boardgame-EN
With my workshops comrades giving me feedback that the game was too hard to play for beginner or too hard to feel like we are participating in a collective, I tried an other game called :
-MUSIC BRAVO, is a card game to practice collectively improvised and experimental music, for beginner and confirmed musicians with improvisations. The game is heavily inspired by Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno and the conceptual works of Fluxus artists and their friends.
The game contains 75 cards (without the rules) divided in 3 groups : Action cards (individual in red, collective in blue), Omen cards (in yellow) and number cards. The principle is simple. You need to gather players around a table with music instruments (you know how to play or not), paper and pencils, a timer. You need to divide the card game in three piles with one pile with individual and collective Action cards, one pile with Omen cards and one pile with number cards. You draw one action card for everyone, one omen card which will be a philosophical card to think about while you play, you draw three number cards which will be the time of the performance, and when everyone is ready, you perform an improvisation.
The game is actually still in beta phase, you can find everything about it here : https://rrrrroseazerty.neocities.org/posts/2021-12-29-boardgame-EN
I'm still working on a practical format for it to be printed at home, usable for colorblind people, with card you can edit yourself…
I think I knew this website by a musician I met at the ZCLAM Festival 2022 near Paris, then I saw you were following me on Twitter so I decided to see more about the website and found that forum ! I see it's not pretty active but if someone wants to talk about making table music game design, I'd love to talk about it ! I don't know a lot of table music game designer and love to meet more =)
Have a good day,
Rose