[035] Making Games Every Day for a Month, Days 25 + 26: Mu-Torere and a Basketball Hoop

"The 'toy,' as it is understood in public debate and in Western culture in general, is above all a product of the adults' view of children, of physical objects, and of children in relation to physical objects." - Bo Lonnqvist, The Concept "Toy" and Cultural Research

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Today's post is mostly image-only. The first game: Mu-Torere, a Maori game from New Zealand.

I decided to make this game worm-themed. I love worms .

I'm considering the alternative game names "Squirmopoly" and "Dirt Chess".

The next game of today is a simple backboard. I'm picturing this as something to hang above a trash bin, so you can crumple up your worthless novel ideas and toss them in the bin.

I'm going for a Nerf vibe here. The hoop is a piece of basketry cane, so perhaps not the strongest material but we'll see how durable it is.

Buckets.

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"Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts, and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish." - John Muir, as quoted in Robert Macfarlane's Landmarks