exquisite-corpse

Exquisite Corpse

http://www.onlyhalfkidding.com

By Eliza Sohn

Exquisite Corpse is a three person drawing game based off the original Surrealist game played on paper. Participants play by taking turns drawing sections of a body, and each individual’s contribution is hidden to the other participants. The first player draws a head, then the second player adds a torso without seeing the head, then the third player draws the legs and feet without seeing the head or torso. Andre Breton believed that one way of unlocking psychic space is through games. It can be used as a means to probe the nature of collaboration, partnership, and unfettered creativity.

Some sample creations made with this game:

exquisite corpse drawing

Setup/Installation

View the deployed site at https://www.onlyhalfkidding.com

Alternatively:

Clone project to desktop
Navigate into project directory
Run npm install
Run npm start

Specifications

Exquisite Corpse is meant to be played with three players, or two players alternating turns. Players are meant to avoid looking at other players’ drawings until the end of the game.

Player One begins, drawing the top third of the drawing.
Clicking the “Next Player” button advances to the middle portion of the drawing.
A small segment of the previous turn’s drawing is visible to draw off of.
Player Two begins, drawing the middle portion of the drawing.
Clicking the “Next Player” button advances to the bottom portion of the drawing.
A small segment of the previous turn’s drawing is visible to draw off of.
Player Three (alternately, Player One if being played by two players) begins their turn, drawing in the bottom portion of the drawing.
Clicking on the “Show Drawing” button will render a view of the completed drawing.
Clicking on the “New Game” button will restart the game.

Technologies Used

HTML5
CSS
JavaScript
React
Redux

Support and Contact

If you run into any issues running Exquisite Corpse, contact Eliza Sohn.

License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The author, above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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