1SC Retrospective
Season 5, Episode 3 - Castle Parks
Hosted by: @D Hindley
Started on: July 31st, 2020
Won by: @InspectorSpacetime
Season 5 was returned to once again to fully relaunch the game!
This episode was hosted by
@D Hindley returning again. He continued to keep the game simple and charming, but added a bit more flourishes and creative twists this time.
The theme was Castle Parks! Every prompt took place in a castle park, but which one was never specified. It was up to the players to decide which castle park! Even having the option to do your projects in a dream park rather than in a real one! A lot of freedom so players could do what they like best!
The development of this season was a bit unusual.
I had teased a vague something with a post that just said "1" and came back to post "1" or a Pitch Meeting meme or something like that. It was to just goof off there with things related to the 1 sentence comp but acting like it was a big mysterious secret. My plan was to start after a couple people were eliminated from SYWTBAI on August 1st. What I didn't know is that I wasn't the only one with secret plans.
The day before I was gonna post an actual announcement,
@D Hindley noticed my "1" meme/teaser thread and messaged me. He had his own full episode planned out already too! So, we talked with each other, bounced ideas of each other, shared our plans and suggested changes. His Episode felt like a perfect cap off to Season 5 and great way to smoothly bring the game back in a fun and simple way. Whereas mine worked better as a start to a new season and good expansion on what he was doing. So, we agreed he should go first, but with some ideas to get involved with each other's episodes a bit.
Once again, these prompts were all 1 Sentence and 1 Picture.
@D Hindley was originally planning to start adding in 1 sentence bonuses half way into the season to slowly expand the game as it goes, but we worked out something a little different because of the behind the scenes shenanigans where we were helping give each other feedback. I'd prank his episode by adding bonuses, and (details are still being figured out so it might be a little different) he'd prank my episode too! But practically speaking, this didn't really change anything from his original plan. The bonuses still started about half way through. And mostly they were the ones D already had planned out. Biggest change was that I reviewed the bonuses so he just had to focus on the main prompts.
Again, the key was simplicity and fun prompts. There was some twists like extra bonuses for the finale or the Fastpass round where it was a bit longer, but had multiple very small scale prompts going at the same time. But even the twists were kept simple and light-hearted.
I could go on longer talking about details from this season, but considering this was only from about a month ago, most of you reading this played this season! It brought
@D Hindley trademark comedy/creativity and kept things very concentrated to a small scope.
This Episode shows how often the most important part of the One Sentence Competition is having fun with a great community. And that is definitely being kept in mind as we head into the future.
Check out the 3rd Episode of the 5th Season here!
As a Discussion Question for today, let's look at my favorite prompt from Season 5, Episode 3!
"CHALLENGE 9: Write a Jungle Cruise Joke"
@D Hindley if you have any thoughts, insight, or memories you wanna share about hosting this episode I'd love to hear it!
