A rapid-fire run of few-second microgames: a command word slams onto the screen, the hero does one thing, and it works or goes hilariously wrong. Every game is drawn in a different medium: wax crayon, ink wash, an amber ASCII terminal, three-colour risograph, pixel art, blueprint, a Swiss grid. Between games the picture shrinks back into a gold TV on a cartoon game-show stage, with a host, a heart lives board, a stage number and a big red button, and a green tick or red cross stamped on the screen. A fuse burns along the bottom, and slot reels spin to SPEED UP. Made for light topics you can split into quick tasks: rush hour, cooking, moving day, a first day at school, getting started with a product.
Use this styleSplit your topic into a few one-step tasks and give each a short command word (TOSS!, SLICE!). Say what the hero does in each game, whether it works or fails, and which medium you'd like (crayon, ink, terminal, riso, pixel, blueprint, Swiss grid; leave it out and the medium is picked to fit). You can name the show, say which stage it is, where a life is lost and where it speeds up. Everything is drawn in code, so no photos are needed.
Making a pizza as a game show: TOSS! the dough in pixel art, a gloved fist smashes the red button, SLICE! it on a blueprint into eight 45° slices, then DELIVER! it through a risograph street to the door. Ding dong.
Microgame Frenzy · 16:9 · 10.0s