The goal is to be the first team to reach the last space on the board. There are five different types of squares on the board, each representing a different category that the drawer much choose from. If they are successful, their pawn moves forward on the common game board towards the finish line. Their teammates try to guess the word on the card. It is not allowed to use numbers or letters, or to use verbal forms of expression. The drawer chooses a card and tries to draw pictures on a sheet of paper, which hint to the word printed on their card. The active team chooses one person to do the drawing (that role rotates throughout the game). The concept of Pictionary is rather simple: The game is played in teams. By that time sales worldwide exceeded more than 32 Million copies. In 1994 Hasbro took over the publishing and the rights to the game were eventually sold to Mattel in 2001. Angel and his business partners first published Pictionary in 1985 and managed to sell 6,000 copies within one year. Angel was inspired by the gameplay of both, Trivial Pursuit and Charades, and believed that a similar structure could be applied to a game about drawing. The game was first created by Robert Angel and his friends in 1981. One of the most know games of this genre is Pictionary. So let us explore some of the games that encourage us to express ourselves through drawing.
A gaming session amoungst friends or family can be the perfect setting to silence our internal critic and to give way to unbridled expression without the fear of rejection. There are plenty of board game titles that encourage us to bring out our inner child-like artist. One could even conclude that there is no such thing as ‘good art’ or ‘bad art.’ And if there is, who cares as long as one had fun creating it? We just have to give it a shot. After all, art is subjective in the eye of the beholder, but the intention of art will at least be there. To translate something like a non-tangible thought into something sharable and open. Not to impress or get approval but just to say: “Look what I saw or what I did today!” In the end, isn’t that what creativity should be about? To put one’s thoughts or visions onto paper (or other mediums of expression). If we could only harvest the enthusiasm and not-caring attitude of a child who just wants to draw something simply to express themselves.
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The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” Well put, indeed.
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