I’ve been wanting to design a game - a board game, maybe a tabletop roleplaying game. I recently read Sophie Yanow’s A Gentle Comics Habit, and I thought “I will have a Gentle Games Habit.”
Each day I’ll make up a game. That’s the “Gentle Games Habit.”
I say “each day”, but I will skip days. I won’t skip more than one day in a row though. Skipping days will allow it to be a “Gentle Games Habit.”
I say I’ll make up a game, but I will keep a loose definition of game. People will read some of them and say “these are not games.” They will be right except for the fact that the real game is one I am playing called “Gentle Games Habit.”
I’ll allow myself 1 minute to write the first game. Each subsequent game I will allow myself an additional minute. I won’t go over (too much), and I will think about the game before writing it. At some point I’ll stop making games in this manner, because I don’t want to spend that much time on games each day. By then it will hopefully not matter because I will have made a bunch of small games and developed a “Gentle Games Habit.”