Gamestorming
Gamestorming is an ideation warm-up exercise for divergent ideation: it helps participants open up more possible ideas before choosing a direction.
How to run it
- Organize or facilitate another game to generate items that require prioritization.
- Ask all attendees to put the items at hand in the middle of the group of people, one by one and shortly explaining the item at hand.
- Let the people take each others card and find another partner for a second round of weighting cards with each other.
- Summarize all different weights to a single figure and sort highest number on top and so on…
- Note: Even when the group does this a second time with the same items and interest at hand the sorting will be the same but figures might differ a bit.
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Prompts to use +
Organize or facilitate another game to generate items that require prioritization.
Ask all attendees to put the items at hand in the middle of the group of people, one by one and shortly explaining the item at hand.
Let the people take each others card and find another partner for a second round of weighting cards with each other.
Summarize all different weights to a single figure and sort highest number on top and so on…
Note: Even when the group does this a second time with the same items and interest at hand the sorting will be the same but figures might differ a bit.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Gamestorming. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Organize or facilitate another game to generate items that require prioritization.; Ask all attendees to put the items at hand in the middle of the group of people, one by one and shortly explaining the item at hand.; Let the people take each others card and find another partner for a second round of weighting cards with each other.; Summarize all different weights to a single figure and sort highest number on top and so on…. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Gamestorming; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Gamestorming.)
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- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
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