PPD!

Lesson one

Okay, we’re in teams, team Awesome has been created. First we listed 5 things we do in our daily lives that could be translated into a game. Our examples included baking, washing self, not at the same time, mind you, ordinary things like commuting to university and listening to music and slightly more interesting ones like disposing of bodies, rock climbing, mugging people, as you do and most excitingly, playing videogames.

We each wrote 5 things, so we had a total of 20 activities, now we had to categorise them. We needed to decide on suitable categories whereby all the activities were in a group. We decided on recreation, cultural activities, necessities and aspirations.

Next we had to bring two or more activities together to create the super-activity, a mind bending, ethic-less situation created with a few mundane tasks. Our first one was made up of…

-          Going to the shop

-          Mugging people

-          Making cake

Our scenario – you extreme cake maker, you, want to make a cake. So you go to the shops, but realise its Sunday evening, so you obtain the ingredients the only other way you know how – mugging people.

Another one of our super-activities included…

-          playing 5-a-side football

-          disposing of bodies

You have no friends. Harsh, but true. You also work at a morgue and have dreamt of having your own 5-a-side football team. Subsequently you have animated the dead and now they have become zombies. You now have that 5-a-side team but they also want to eat your face. Nom nom.

With a bit of creative leeway, our next uber-activity involves…

-          Commuting to university

-          Rock climbing

-          The floor is now lava – our creative loophole

Uncharted, Assassin’s Creed, parkour, Singstar (ignore the latter) eat your heart out. You need to get to university, but oh no, the floor is lava! You do the sane thing and shimmy, climb and jump across the buildings to get there. Here’s hoping class isn’t cancelled while you’re hanging by your nails off Elephant and Castle shopping mall.

Controversial but still an idea…

-          Driving

-          Sleeping

-          Mixing music

Eyelids dropping, car seat snug, engine sounds like a lullaby, darkness- WAKE UP!! You’re driving and you’re falling asleep, not the best thing to boast about being able to multitask, not the worst but certainly not worthy of a high-five, so what do you do to keep awake? Listen to the radio? Even better: you mix tracks!