Hey! Your Jam is dope. Just tossing out a few game seeds for anyone looking for ideas the kind of gentle, outdoorsy games I’d love to see more as a player.
I really like the idea of leaving home with a simple instruction that turns walking or riding into play. It could be something like: don’t come back until you’ve photographed ten church doors, or found objects in rainbow order. Maybe you start with a haiku and try to rebuild it from found words in the street. Or make accidental poetry by framing strange combinations of signage and text.
Tiny wanderer by npckc does something lovely with scale: you roll a prompt like “yellow tower” and look for something that could match, but from the point of view of a 5cm-tall traveler. That change of perspective could connect well with mapping from other standpoints too,; like imagining the city as a wheelchair user and ask players to mark the obstacles on the map.
I also like the idea of drawing a straight line on a map, trying to follow it, and writing something in a notebook about resistance every time you encounter an obstacle.
I’d also love to see games that respond to more than sight, where smell or sound trigger movement, or where you pay attention to natural vs constructed spaces. What animals do you encounter in the city? What traces of humans appear when you’re out in the wild? One game could simply be mapping those inversions.
Harry Josephine Giles has shared some great ideas for hikers and city walkers, small, clever games that don’t need much but change how you move and see. I’d love to see more experiments in that spirit.
I’d also love to see hacks that take tabletop games out into the world... storytelling games reimagined as walking rituals. My dream would be a Wanderhome hack played through quiet movement and observation, wandering as a form of worldbuilding.
If anything here sparks something, would love to test it!