EDG Play Methods 1.

Task: Identify and gather play methods.

Make faces.
Make sounds.
Passing time.
Fooling with truth (April Fools, hoax, trick).
Hacking.
Renaming.
Listing/memory game.
Gossip/Chinese whispers.
Changing scale.
Mimicry/imitation.
Imagination (being pursued by sharks while swimming).
Imp of the perverse (Edgar Allen Poe).
Substitution.
Create a space in which things can happen.
Imaginary friends (live under the stairs).
Scary play (fox in henhouse).
Do a play audit of the day/week/month.
Cooking and play: throw spaggetti to 'test' it.
Play with adrenalin.
Continuity: play for its own sake.
Colour transformation e.g. colour-themed transformations or algorithms.
Qualifying things via time ("rapidishly").
Involuntary movement tracking ("an orchestra of linguistic twitches").
Breath retention: conditions change when you exhale or inhale or hold your breath. Breath as a time marker ("Every time I inhale I'm prey; every time I exhale I'm a predator.")
Cross over: mix child's game with a sport (soccer + catch; wrestling and eating). i.e. X + 1 method.
Rhythm: changing tempo.
Excluding as play method.
Unexpected play through the environment (short cuts).
Repurposing toy elements.
Object-based play facilitating shifting roles. Object as way of starting/stopping game.
Pranks/practical jokes. Planning phase as method of play.