Exercise 6.6
Do It
State an interesting challenge for your game, set up a whiteboard or a sheet of butcher paper, and use the techniques previously discussed to generate 100 ideas related to your challenge in 60 minutes.
Challenge:
Get through a bad day at school as a student:
Have morning coffee/good breakfast/energy drink
Meditate
Ask to leave class to walk the hallways
Leave campus for lunch
Find a friend
Go to your favorite teacher
Go to the art room to paint
Ditch school to go to a movie
Skip the class you hate
Play a prank on a teacher
Binge eat chocolate
Fight your bully
Make fun of someone else to make yourself feel better
Spread a rumor about someone
Cheat on a test
Study for your test
Do your homework
Read a book
Go to the gym to workout
Visit the music room to listen to someone playing music
Go outside to walk on track
Go to the woods behind the school
Hide in the bathroom
Text your friends during class
Join the smokers for a cigarette
Skip school and ride the bus around town all day
Stop to smell the flowers
Pick flowers
Take a video/photos of wildlife
Go home and sleep
Sleep in and don’t go to school
Call the school, pretend you are your parent and say you’re sick
Skip school and invite friends over to your house
Go to the mall to treat yourself
Steal something from a store
Breakup with your boyfriend/girlfriend
Cry in class
Put your headphones in during lecture
Go to the nurse to fake sick so you can go home
Visit the principal’s office
Go to the counselor
Take a nap during lunch
Go to the library
Put your head down on our desk in class
Avoid your friends
Ride your bike to school
Steal a bike outside the school and go for a joyride
Snap chat your girlfriend/boyfriend. Maintain that streak!
Take a 10 selfies with 10 different smiles
Eat all the cookies in the cafeteria
Run laps until your legs can’t hold you up anymore
Go to the gym and do dead lifts
Listen to classical music
Go to the band room and sing until your heart's content
Play any instruments
Help a teacher clean up his/her classroom
Count all the squirrels you can find around the school
Join a yoga class if there’s one at school
Take a power nap in the library
Ask the librarian for a book recommendation and read it
Finish your long list of unfinished homework
Forgot to ask my parents to sign my report card
Don’t know which is worse, ask my parents to sign the report card or forgot to ask them to do it
Miss one page of my homework
She/he didn’t respond to my stupid smile
Jack is sick and we shared a cup of milkshake yesterday
Toilet paper is gone
Where is my wallet?
Where is all my money in my wallet?
She/he says to me: you are a good person, but…
Waiting my favorite game to be released in the classroom
Whistle in my brain
Really have to pee
Why are they coughing so much
Want to see that snowman again
That screen is too big and I am too close
They are laughing at me
I am leaving
Can I roll my eyes twice?
It's too late and it's too loud
Looking for the chance to escape this place
Teacher is coming and where is the save button?
Looking into his/her eyes and get nothing
Sir, I do know that formula
Ya, ya, laugh out loud. Let the guys upstairs hear you
Say cheese
I love guitar, where should I put my hands
Forget my backpack at home
Forget that I forget my backpack at home
Everyone raise their hands
Mr. Jackson is looking at me
That is hilarious, ha ha
They saw my father and his car
Leave the classroom and take a deep breath in the freezing air
Headache
Pants are too short
The book has been checked out
Why should we write like this?
Too many jokes
I won!!