Turn-based group production system

[maiki]

Continuing the discussion from June 9, 2020 - Tuesday:

@judytuna

Last night, we used Discord, pen/paper, and our phones to play! In my Discord server, I set up a custom birthday role for the people playing, and a new “category” that people with this role can access. (I only did that so the new channels I created don’t clog up the channel list for non-participants, and for a sense of “privacy,” I guess? Privacy is the wrong word here?) I created a lot of separate text channels and named each one with each of our players, and that denoted “this player created the first panel of a comic.” This was L’s idea! I just made the text channels. (At the end, you read the comic by reading one channel.) Then each player drew something with pen(cil) and paper, took a picture of it with their phone (using the “square” filter or cropping it later), and then uploaded it to their channel. Then they tagged the next player in alphabetical order. We encouraged each other not to peek at other channels (aka other comics-in-progress). We only looked at a channel when we got tagged in it, and then drew the next pane, uploaded it into the proper channel,

We ended up with five completed panels, with six panes each. We only had five players, so that meant that everybody who started a comic finished the same comic, which was an interesting turn of events (by convention, the person to draw the sixth pane of a comic is responsible for “the punchline.” This doesn’t always happen lol). It was pretty fun.

We ended up all uploading a photo of whatever we drew on, because they sorta make a comic of their own that makes no sense, because each of us drew a pane for five different comics!

Basically, as I was reading the above I thought: I can make that! And maybe a little easier and automated for the players! And with a website!

So Judy’s description is a recipe for experimenting.