List of Games #4 with focus on developing characters

Length: more than 2,5 hours

Done on 26.05.2017

• Mouse in a circle
• Increase/Decrease in a circle
• Learning names with mimic
• Walking with roles
• The slowest race in the world

• Applause in Circle: One player applauses and sees at the eyes of the next player who must applause
• Noise ball
• Ball Metamorphosis
• Walking and getting old: All the players walk randomly around the room and the moderator names the age they have. They first start being at their current age, then they are 130 years old, then 80, 60, 30, 16, 13, 5 and 1 years. Then they are a 3 months baby and a baby which it is about to born
• Greetings around the room each other like you greet a long lost friend, like someone you don`t really trust, an ex-lover, someone you really hate, someone you have a secret crush on, someone you had a one-night stand with, someone that sold you a crappy used car, someone with bad breath, greet someone like you are a cowboy, a soldier, a nanny, a Russian farmer,…
• Assassin: Hiding from the Asassin with a bodyguard. Walking around the room
• Jump and Association Jump The moderator may give directions like like `horizontal`, `up`, `down`, `sideways`, `big`, `small`, `light`or `heavy`.
• Run with locked knees: One player has to touch another one. Every person can only run with their knee touching each other
• Bandaid Tag
• Follow your nose as character Walk: The players are walking around the room. The moderator choose a body part and the players are being lead by that body part. After a while they create a caracter using that way of walking. The game continues with new body parts.

• Count until 21 in group: Everyone watchs at his feets. One person starts counting saying one. In a random order the players have to count without saying the same number at the same time. If his happens, they start from 1 again
• Continuous sound: Everyone stands in a circle. The master says a vocal with a medium volume, starts fading the vocal and the second one must start to say the vocal and maintain the same volume. The volume must be the same the whole time
• I am a tree

• Blind lead
• What are you doing?
• Stum fights: We do it slowly so our partner can react and get secrets arms and we can avoid our strikes
• Traits and objects in two rows

• Press conference: about an absurd announcement of a known character or person
• Scene with 3 emotions: First two player play an scene with neutral emotion. Then the public choose a negative one like Frustration and they play the scene again. Finally they play the scene with a positive emotion like Euforie.
• One word story with 4-5 players in a row or only two as a person and the public playing. The tile is choosen by the public
• Poesie in a fantasy language: A player will translate the poesie of a second player. The second player will talk and move with emotion, but always using the phantasy language. The title is choosen by the public.
• CROW with Fantasy language: three players go to a place where they can't hear the public. A fourth player stays and the public chooses a place, an object and a profession. Afterwards he plays an scene using fantasy language explaning the place, the profession and the object. Everytime the second player understands, he applaues and makes a circle. Then comes the next player and the second replays the scene. At the end the last player has to explain what was the place, the profession and the object

Einleitung

• Emphasizing movements with three players
• Traffic Light training character development
• At the cinema: There are three rows of chairs on stage. Three players must enter the stage and play a character without speaking with each other. Then something happens and they start talking with each other. At the end, everyone finds a way to leave the cinema.
• Award Ceremony: for strange characters with positive awards. It can be done in a circle and the player in the center announce the prize, why it is given and says that the winner is coming. This helps each player to find the moment, when they feel comfortable to get into the middle of the circle.
• Cantine: Two players talk in the cantine about a workmate and name two properties of his character and then sit in a row of three chairs watching the public. The third player enters the scene and plays his character with the two properties. Then after picking up his food, he talks with this workmates.
• The hitch hiker with characters
• Multiple personalities with three different objects
• The dating game It helps a to prepare cards with movie characters on it forehand. Each player takes a card and the audience has to guess who the character is
• Speed dating freeze: Two players are speed dating sitting on two chairs. A player outside clapps and he takes the position of one of them with a new character. Then the games continues until a fourth player clapps and comes in

• Evil Twin Brother (!) It is difficult to keep the positive energy
• Charakter-Reigen Chain of characters
• Einer für Alle (in German): 3 players start a scene and it goes for a 2-3 minutes until the moderator cuts it. Now it is decided randomly who left the stage. Afterwards the two players left have to replay the scene replacing the missing player. After the second run, another player leaves the stage. Now one player has to talk and play all three roles.
• “Characters moving in” cuadrant: Four players are standing forming a cuadrant with two on the front and two on the back. Each player gets a famous movie character from the audience. Then the two players at the front start a scene with those characters moving in together to the same flat. When the relation between the characters is established, the moderator freezes the scene and in what room those characters are. The scene continues until the moderator says “Right” or “Left”. After this the new players at the front start a new scene with their characters and the moderator ask for a room. When all four scenes are established the moderator changes scenes by saying Right and Left
• Weird Newscasters

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