PIRANDELLO

Pirandello is a project that I developed during my third and last year at Politecnico, as my Final Project.

The brief required a game that needs to be played by children between 1 and 6 years old, but insists on the necessity of physical activity on their part.

Me and my team developed a role game which is focused on theatre, but requires a physical activity to its young participants, and therefore represents a link between sports and an ancient fascinating form of art.

The four turning disks in the box suggest the player the four fundamental elements to build a story: the character, a movement, an object and a place. Every disk includes several possibilities in the same element: the character can be an animal, a princess, a policeman and so on...
The game starts when the storyteller turns all the disks at the same time, and then tells a story, that the other players have to play as actors and actresses.
At the end of the first story, the narrator rolls the dice and turns the disk that match the color of the dice’s face, so the story goes on...