Playful Passage n.4

Good morning dear reader,

I've just come back from an extremely windy morning walk with our dog Kion and wish that our wind was as healthy as the one on Eydernon so that my cough would disappear into thin air as soon as possible!

The magic of stories. Last week, Miri and I spent many hours reading and listening to texts by Walter Moers and Jorge Bucay and were deeply mesmerised by their storytelling. Ever since I was a child, there has been little more fulfilling for me than listening to a good story and being enchanted in the truest sense of the word. And as this emotional stimulation is the best breeding ground for cognitive learning processes, stories also stick incredibly well in our memory and thinking system.

For this and many other reasons, the story behind our game Insighttopia is so close to my heart. This is in line with the feedback from many testers, who often wanted to delve even deeper into the story. That's why I'm currently working on designing a storytelling entry and exit from the Insighttopia game session. I'm keeping the exact form and function of this to myself for the moment. The only thing that is certain is that people who enjoy reading and have a weakness for fantasy and prose will be delighted not to escape their own reality into a foreign land this time, but to explore the most exciting alternatives to their own reality in a world that is "upside down".

"Children are told stories to put them to sleep - adults are told stories to wake them up." - J. Bucay

Also 👻: We will be at the Spielefest in Vienna from 15-16 June and are very much looking forward to connecting with you, playing Insighttopia and having a good time.

Playful practice 😜: Accepting instead of resigning

Last week I was on holiday with Miri in Naples. Our train was so severely delayed that we had to take a taxi from Salzburg to Vienna. Admittedly, this was not an easy decision, but I was amazed at how quickly we warmed to the situation. The taxi was fluffy, the holiday saved and the travel budget exceeded. And what about us? We had already made the choice and were fine with it, case closed, holiday can come. For me, resigning would mean not staying in the flow, possibly not taking the taxi and, if so, then only to continue to struggle afterwards, to perceive myself more as a victim and less as an actor.

In his book "Come I'll tell you a story", Bucay talks about how many people are very fixated on what they don't have. The sentence: "How happy I would be if I had what I don't have yet" is always based on what is not (yet) there, so that you can have as much as you want, the last per cent is simply still missing and the great, all-encompassing happiness is still to come...

This is how Diogenes, dressed in rags, replied to a rich patron who wanted to give him a bag of coins: "Do you have any more?", to which the rich man replied: "Of course, much more!" - "And you don't want any more than you already have?" The rich man replied: "Surely, I would like to have more!" Diogenes answered: "Then keep your money, because you need it more than I do."

All the love to you and yours 💜,

Daniel

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