"Games You Can Play In Your Head, By Yourself"

General Memory Chat
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At it’s most basic, a role-playing game can be played alone with just a prompt or idea to get you started. After you’ve read that, you imagine what would happen. It’s an amazing exercise for imagination.

Here’s an example. There are much better ones. This one just came off a random table:

A prince has uncovered a plot to assassinate his father, and needs help getting to the bottom of it.

(your random character from your mnemonic system) has learned that a lot of the King’s own men are in on the plot, and that’s why the prince is quietly looking for help.

How to play this? Imagine what you would do, and what your Shadow Self might do. Learn more from this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gycpiyhby/

To make this easier, you can use random input to decide the results of your decisions instead, if you want:

  • DO an action
  • then
  • ASK a question
  • then
  • USE the random input to decide what happened in the game

The whole thing progresses this way.
You can build entire worlds this way.

If your brain is having trouble writing, you can use an AI chat bot as training wheels to complete your sentences while you’re learning.

To make the whole game more meaningful, tie the game into real life events and more meaningful challenges and your mnemonic training.
I’m currently figuring out how to make the gameplay more of a loop.

Intrigued?
Do any of you gamify your training?

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I have the book somewhere…bought it quite a while ago.
It was interesting for imaginative exercise, and I found it quite easy to create very detailed virtual memory palaces (buildings, landscape, etc. I did think for that use it was pretty good.

However, I did find the idea of ‘training’ yourself so that you can truly surprise yourself a bit disquieting. Not sure I would want to go there.

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So like solo dungeons and dragons?

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I believe that it would be along the lines of what a fiction writer goes through (which is, of course, creating world and characters.

Once the author embarks on a story, it begins to take on a life of its own. The author can no longer do exactly what they want. The characters themselves have a say!

If you create a character with certain characteristics and traits, then they must generally behave in a manner consistent with those traits. So the character can’t just murder someone, even if it would be easier for the flow of the story. The author must find another way because the character him or herself is more or less saying “I ain’t doin’ that!”

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