Solo Play

For my solo play I decided to do three different things.

1. Play Video Game 2. Play with Colored Pencils 3. Play with toy pinwheels.

The video game was the starting point and helped me think of restraint and limitation because

I was playing a fighting game. And there is only so much you can do with it. I thought of urgency, impatience, and restraint.

When I was little, I would play with colored pencils as if they were dolls. So I applied the same idea. I split the colored pencils into groups and battled sets of colors with each other. What resulted from that was order and organization.

When I played with the pinwheels, I thought of actually windmills. When I think of windmills,

I thought of synchronization. Which then led me to time of day, etc.

In all this process helped direct to a different idea that what I originally had.

Play History and Games

A. My most joyful image is an image of playing practice baseball with my neighbor's family.

What exactly makes this images so special is how it was done. What is meant by that is

my neighbor's dad would never actually take the time out to play with a group of children.

That was something out of the norm. So when this occurred, it definitely had an impact on me.

He taught me how to hold the bat and everything.

The connection that I made of this was reoccurrence. This memory was always at the back of my mind reminding me of my childhood. And also how much you can learn in a small amount of time.

B. My Favorite Games From Childhood:

Trouble

Hide and Seek

Twister

Game of Life

Mancala

Connect 4

Guess Who

Uno

The one game that disliked:

Scrabble

Through this list I noticed that I tend to like games that have to do with numbers or counting.

The type of counting is used as a way of progression instead of tactical. The games on the list

are basic and yet have a unpredictability about it. Even though you have to roll or spin something you never know what number your going to get.

I also noticed that these games are also based upon repetition.