Have you played Jackson Tegu’s Kaleidoscope yet? If not, we still have one opening in our Nov. 15th Hangouts game.

Have you played Jackson Tegu’s Kaleidoscope yet? If not, we still have one opening in our Nov. 15th Hangouts game.

Have you played Jackson Tegu’s Kaleidoscope yet? If not, we still have one opening in our Nov. 15th Hangouts game. 

We have played this game four or five times in the last year or so, and it is so much fun. It’s a hack of Ben Robbins’ s Microscope, but instead of creating a grand history,  you and your friends have just watched a strange foreign film, and now you are sitting around discussing various scenes from it. As in Microscope, you create a timeline, only this time it’s a breakdown of the film and its various parts. The gameplay creates a movie that is alternately bizarre and hilarious and poignant. And whenever we’ve finished a session, we always sit around and talk about the film’s symbolism and meaning (as if momentarily forgetting we did not, in fact, just watch a real movie). It is a sublime experience, and probably doesn’t get the love it deserves. 

If you want that last spot, follow the link. If you’re interested in checking the game itself out, you can pick it up here: http://www.photographsoflightning.com/kaleidoscope/

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10 thoughts on “Have you played Jackson Tegu’s Kaleidoscope yet? If not, we still have one opening in our Nov. 15th Hangouts game.”

  3. Eden Brandeis I’m curious if your group did that thing I described above, where you begin discussing the hidden meaning of the totally fake film you just made. 

  4. Eden Brandeis I’m curious if your group did that thing I described above, where you begin discussing the hidden meaning of the totally fake film you just made. 

  5. By the end of the session, it felt like I had seen the movie! I think this was true for the others as well. It was an amazing example of our brains making our shared imagination real.

  6. By the end of the session, it felt like I had seen the movie! I think this was true for the others as well. It was an amazing example of our brains making our shared imagination real.

  9. Eden Brandeis I like “our brains making our shared imagination real.” That’s pretty good. I imagine the relatively small scope of the game helps with that.   

  10. Eden Brandeis I like “our brains making our shared imagination real.” That’s pretty good. I imagine the relatively small scope of the game helps with that.   

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