Remembering The Game

You can still feel the rush of striving to win. The way the rules and the steps ran through your mind and flowed through your body. Whatever your sport was, whether you took it seriously or casually, it captivated you in one way or another. Alone and drifting through your memories you remember your time with one heck of a game.

This is a singleplayer journaling game about a sports player reminiscing. It uses a deck of 52 playing cards and a six-sided die to lead to randomized prompts. Using a notes app and online randomizers works well for digital play.

The focus of this game is on the emotions of playing sports. You record scattered potentially metaphorical imagery based vignettes and then link them together into sequences with connecting details like a certain person, place, time, feeling, etc. These sequences of memories form your experience with the sport.

Based on the Alone journaling game system by Takuma Okada.

Cover Photo by Lisa Keffer on Unsplash.