Door: m7red, (Mauricio Corbalan & Pio Torroja)
“How does the game work? Eight to eighty players are divided into teams. Each selects at random a previously established character, style, and secret goal. Team members must transform these elements into a story, which they present through icons on a map of flooded Buenos Aires. While characters include familiar crisis figures–politician, policeman, and engineer–there are also some surprising ones, such as an anarchist, a gaucho, and an immigrant. Styles range from the ecologically minded to the entrepreneurial, and the secret goal can include any task from starting a refugee agency to attracting tourists to the flood-stricken area. The challenge lies in the game’s chance combinations. When I played a round, I ended up on a team with a filmmaker and an architect; we had to find a strategy to deal with a media-savvy geisha running a covert paramilitary gang that was destabilizing the city. Corbalan and Torroja play the role of mediators, who may edit a team’s narrative or suggest a new development in what they call “the collective script” produced by each game. In the end, all missions are revealed, and players vote independently on the most convincing team strategy.”
https://www.mediamatic.net/nl/page/119415/virtual-disaster
