[pusoy dos]

The other day (Wednesday methinks), me and some of my friends from Skewed Studios (Seth included. here's a link to her blog) were playing Pusoy Dos in the SU (Student Union) canteen. It was just your usual nothing-better-to-do game of Pusoy Dos until (wala lang) I started to make up stories behind the cards being played; the three of clubs being the unfortunate expendable scout, a pair of Kings having an alliance, a fullhouse being a sentai team with a mech, etc. then everyone just started to play along.

Then I thought, what if we could seriously make a story out of Pusoy Dos and turn into a project for Skewed? The possibilities for stories are almost limitless with the 52-card deck. We needed a specific scenario of cards to work on so we tried to reshuffle the deck and deal four hands just to see what happens. To our surprise, the card combinations on the four hands already created the perfect setting for a possibly great story. A Royal Flush on one hand, Straights, a Fullhouse, Flashes, good pairs (may love stories agad na lumabas), the Black Jack, the Queen of Spades, the Ace of Spades, all the Kings and Queens (affairs here and there. the King and Queen of Hearts surprisingly staying loyal) distributed almost perfectly (or coincidentally) on the four hands and the Three of Clubs showing up in the hand of the best place to start.

We've been working on the stories since yesterday. We did research on the cards, a whole afternoon of brainstorming with almost everybody, concept mapping, political relations, creating timelines, figuring out the technologies, blah and all I can say is that the results are VERY promising. I won't be discussing details on the card combinations here so as not to spoil our future readers.

I just feel that nice wave of inspiration coming on this one. Besides, my dead Silverfish project actually fits perfectly in this story but I guess that's just IT. Everybody now has the chance to have their own unique inpusts in the story considering the broadness of the setting that can be created with the 52 cards.

It's just nice seeing everybody getting pumped up again after months of I don't know... artistic sterility. Ano kaya magandang title?

SKEWED STUDIOS by the way is an "art studio" in UP Los Banos formerly known as the Radical Dreamers (don't ask where that name came from. long story). It was started by a group of friends who all had an interest in Art, Comics, Anime, Sci-Fi and everything else in between. It started out as an anime-loving (you can say "nerdy") barkada and eventually turned to making comics. The group is composed of talented (haha) artists, writers, photoeditors, and contributors. Skewed Studios is a non-recognized (underground?) "organization" and we like it that way.