{"id":6646,"date":"2013-11-05T09:53:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T08:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=6646"},"modified":"2016-09-08T17:00:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T16:00:54","slug":"outside-the-box-playcubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/outside-the-box-playcubes\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside The Box PlayCubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/gileslane\/outside-the-box-playcubes\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re now just over halfway through our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/gileslane\/outside-the-box-playcubes\" target=\"_blank\">kickstarter campaign<\/a> for <em>Outside The Box<\/em> : a \u201cgame engine for your imagination\u201d designed to inspire storytelling and improvise play. We&#8217;re trying to raise \u00a34k to manufacture a 1st edition of the complete set to get it into people&#8217;s hands and see what they do with it. Its had a slow start but we&#8217;re hoping we still may pick up momentum. <\/p>\n<p><iframe src='https:\/\/bookleteer.com\/book.html?id=1746&#038;ui=embed#mode\/2up' width='480px' height='430px' frameborder='0' ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Outside The Box<\/em> has no rules, nothing to win or lose, it simply provides a framework for you to imagine stories and make up your own games. It\u2019s made up of 27 cubes, 3 layers of 9 cubes, each layer being a distinct game : <em>Animal Match<\/em>, <em>Mission Improbable<\/em> and <em>StoryMaker<\/em>. Check out the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/collection.html?id=23\" target=\"_blank\">OTB collection<\/a> of cubes and books on bookleteer. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Animal Match<\/strong> starts out as a puzzle &#8211; match up the animal halves to complete the pattern. From there you can make it much more fun : mix the cubes up to invent strange creatures; what would you call them? What would they sound like? How might they move?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mission Improbable<\/strong> is for role-playing. There are 6 characters: Adventurer, Detective, Scientist, Spy, Storyteller and Superhero, each with 9 tasks. Use them to invent your own games, record your successes in the mission log books or take it to another level by designing your own costumes and props.<\/p>\n<p><strong>StoryMaker<\/strong> incites the telling of fantastical tales : Roll the 3 control cubes to decide how to tell your story, what kind it should be and where to set it. Then use the word cubes as your cue to invent a story on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Outside The Box began as a side project when illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/proboscis.org.uk\/tag\/outside-the-box\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mandy Tang<\/a> joined Proboscis. Inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/loveoutdoorplay.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Love Outdoor Play<\/a> campaign to get more children playing outside, we came up with the idea of using our StoryCube format and our bookleteer self-publishing platform to make a set of cubes that would inspire playfulness. We think its a lovely thing worth getting out into the world \u2013 we hope you agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re now just over halfway through our kickstarter campaign for Outside The Box : a \u201cgame engine for your imagination\u201d designed to inspire storytelling and improvise play. We&#8217;re trying to raise \u00a34k to manufacture a 1st edition of the complete set to get it into people&#8217;s hands and see what they do with it. 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