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In surrealism, play, including surrealist games, is of great significance as not only a form of recreation but a method of investigation. Old games such as exquisite corpse, consequences, Conditionals, Question and Answer and newer ones such as Time Travelers' Potlatch, What is Wrong With This Picture? and parallel collage have played a critical role. Surrealism is a cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement oriented toward the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative faculties of the unconscious mind and the attainment of a state different from, more than, and ultimately truer than everyday reality: the sur-real, or more than real. For... Exquisite corpse (also known as exquisite cadaver or rotating corpse) is a method by which a collection of words or images are collectively assembled, the result being known as the exquisite corpse or cadavre exquis in French. ... Consequences is an old parlour game similar to the surrealist game exquisite corpse. ... Time Travelers Potlatch is a surrealist game in which two or more players say what gift they would give to another, usually historical, personage. ... What is Wrong With This Picture? is a game often found in childrens magazines or books (for example, the back cover of Highlights for Children magazine features a WiWWTP based on the front cover illustration) in which a picture of an otherwise normal scene contains some unusual elements not...
The procedure of such a game is intended to cut away the constraints of rationalism and allow concepts to develop more freely and in a more random manner. The aim is to break traditional thought patterns and create a more original endpoint. [1]
Several literature-producing games were developed and played by the Surrealists, who were inspired by parlor games and nonsense literature but had their own agenda of freeing the mind from the structures of rationality by means of strange and ludic structures (Brotchie 1993).
Other literary game creators and electronic writers would do well to take a page from these two, even though translation is more difficult for games that use forms of natural language understanding or that rely on the structures of a language for their rules.
Bookchin's work is "a tale told in ten games," each with novel skins that do at least three things: visually refer to objects, incidents, conflicts, and themes in the story; incorporate text from the story; and refer to various retro computer games with their gameplay and appearance.
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