Story Games - A Design Challenge: The Uniform Room.

by Levi Kornelsen

She'd like to have a large, uniformed-authority-positive "floor game" of some kind hosted there this year. Fire and rescue, sinking ship, or something like that - a very short, simple board-type game played across the floor by multiple kids at once. perhaps something where the authority figure acts as a referee, like a football referee or such. One of the events at this summer program will be a room intended for play in general, and which has been used in previous years for large game-like activities. Of course this means that you also need to have the game be pretty short, so that many players have a chance to be the authority figure....

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