Angry Farmer - Play the Character
Get yourself in to character to unlock different perspectives.
(Note, this is one of the many game modes for Angry Farmers, search on #AngryFarmer to see all of the game modes we've discovered so far.)
Get a standard deck of Angry Farmers (emotion+audience), shuffle and deal the deck out to the players. Each player gets an emotion and an audience card, which is their Character (i.e. Angry Farmer, Passionate Accountant, Confused Welder).
Go around the group, and on the first round, each player must introduce themselves, a little bit about their life and character.
Then, go around the group again, introducing a problem into the mix, for instance "We need to get more people drinking our beer", and ask the character what would encourage them to drink more beer, get them to talk about what is stopping them currently, and what would entice them to change that.
"Play the character" demonstrates a few things:
- Being a niche member of your audience offers different perspectives on your challenge
- You might make massive assumptions about this member of the audience, which could be right or wrong. Can you back it up?
- Having niche members of an audience forces you to focus on very specific issues
Great for starting to air previously unconsidered challenges and opportunities. It's unlikely you will land on a specific idea you can take forward, but you might find a handful of interesting themes to develop upon later, or in a separate session.