1SC Retrospective
Season 6, Episode 1 - The Soft Reboot
Hosted by: Your's Truly, @Pi on my Cake
Started on: October 20th, 2020
Won by: @InspectorSpacetime once again!
Season 6 started off with a very intentional return to form of the "classic" era.
This episode was hosted by me! Returning again 3 seasons later with essentially the same goal. Analyze all the previous games, reverse engineer what made them work or what made them not work, put it all together, and build a formula that can be used by future hosts.
The theme was pretty light. "Soft-Reboot" which basically just meant that there wasn't really a fancy theme with the entire season taking place in WDW and Disneyland (with some left open ended for other parks to be options for players to use). Although there was a very simple "Problem-Solution" format at play. Problem: the Voyage of the Little Mermaid theater is sitting abandoned. Solution: Pitch something to fill that space!
After the 1SC Bubble "popping" in a lot of ways,
@D Hulk did an amazing job rebuilding the game by stripping it down to its bare essentials. Nothing but it's bones, which was absolutely needed with where the game was. As the forum was becoming way more active once again in 2020 and heading into 2021, my goal was to build on what D did and create a foundation using those bones. A bone foundation!
Just like how I was involved with Season 5, Episode 3 even though I wasn't a cohost,
@D Hulk was involved in this episode. Adding in the bonuses halfway through the season. The bonuses here were just one single sentence without any pictures. These bonuses were related to the main prompt, but stood on their own as a very short, simple side challenge.
The prompts were all 1-3 Sentence and 1 Picture. With
@D Hulk adding in 1 sentence bonuses half way into the season to slowly expand the game as it goes. A big personal focus was "presentation" with every single scene having a uniquely designed version of the logo and review banner inspired by the theme of the prompt. I had a lot of fun doing that! I'm far from the only host to put a focus on visual style, it is an easy way to reassure players that the host is dedicated to the game. Players are not going to be dedicated to the game if the host isn't!
Overall, this was a pretty standard season of the game with a great group of players. Which was exactly the goal!
This Episode shows how a little extra effort goes a long way, and that is definitely being kept in mind as we head into the future.
Check out the 1st Episode of the 6th Season here!
As a Discussion Question for today, let's look at my favorite prompt from Season 6, Episode 1!
"SCENE 6:
Bob Chapek just finished reading the copy of
"Business Buzz Words for Humanoid Potato Men" that Bob Iger gave him as a gift when he became CEO. He learned two things! Money and Synergy! One of Disney's biggest successes both in terms of "money" and in terms of "synergy" is the
Pirates of the Caribbean film franchises. But after the disappointing 4th and 5th films, that synergistic cash cow has been about milked dry. And other attempts like Country Bears, Haunted Mansion, and Tomorrowland didn't really connect with people.