By: Jon Back
Bureaucracy-administration- frustration
Scenario format: Non verbal
Duration: 1 hour
Number of players: 15
Menials of Production is a quiet simulation of gray, meaningless, everyday middle-management. It’s an ode to following the rules, and filling out the forms, even when you don’t know why. It is about shutting up, and taking your seat, and staying there for the duration of the day. It’s about filling in your reports and hoping no-one complains about that tick-box you forgot. But they probably will. And for some, it’s a game about clenching your fist, quietly, in your pocket, hoping one day the system will change. But it probably won’t.
The game is a non-verbal scenario, played seated at a desk, interacting through forms, and trying to achieve your goals in a system set up to preserve the status quo. With strong rules on limitation on how you can interact, it’s a game about playing within the system, and sometimes, just sometimes, it is about breaking those systems.
When you play this game, you will experience dystopian administration, absurd adherence to rules, and the strange beauty of menial tasks — especially when they’re taken just a bit too seriously.
Stockholm Scenario Festival 