The Drawring Game « Ask You In Gray

The Drawring Game

10.03.09

Hi Friends,

I want to take some time to talk about our favorite game to play.

Those of you that have been fans for a while may have received a copy of our very first demo recording. We copied this recording on plain white discs so that we could customize each and every one. When we first had the idea to customize the discs, we had no idea what to do for a cover. We thought about designs and other random things we could do with a blank white space. Suddenly, it became obvious what we had to do. We had to play the Drawring Game.

The Drawring Game came about after numerous moments of boredem in the early years of AYIG. This game was often played by Nick, Mercy, Courtney, our good friends Ian and Joseph and I. Here’s how you play: drawring1

First, one person drawrs a shape. It can be any shape you can think of. Typically the shape is some form of amoeba shape with no real obvious form. . Once a shape has been drawrn, the drawrer passes the paper to the next person. Now it is this persons job to add features to the shape and turn it in to a unique character. Usually they end up becoming silly animals with ridiculous accessories. Nick tends to drawr his characters wearing black Italian-style pointy boots. I often add a belly button to my characters especially if it is a bird of some sort. The sky is the limit so it is necessary to let your imagination run wild. There is no rush, besides the anticipation of everyone playing but sometimes it helps to spend some time rotating the shape, looking at it from different angles, while trying to get some inspiration for your creation. We like to keep the shapes simple to enhance creativity but it isn’t a rule ( I once drew an arrow shape with two points on either side and regrettably Nick turned it into a woman giving birth… wearing Italian boots). This process continues until most of the space on the page is completely filled up. As the space gets filled the shapes and therefore the characters become more and more interesting.

Since the invention of the Drawring Game, we have incorporated on occasion some additional guidelines to make the game more challenging. For instance, Nick and I have played a version of the Drawring Game in which after the shape has been drawrn but before the second person begins to create a character, a third party will randomly select an animal which the shape will become and the creator has to drawr that animal. This results in some interesting outcomes. This is why creating custom rules is a way to make the game more fun for you and your friends.

I hope to have inspired you by sharing this game and we hope that you all will take joy in playing it as we have. If anyone creates an especially ridiculous creature we would love to see it! Maybe in the future we can hold AYIG’s first web contest.

trey

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