---
title: 🥐 XQUISITE BRUNCH 🥐
description: A branching take on the exquisite corpse game
date: 13/02/2022
categories:
  - Web
  - Python
  - Games
url: /soupboat/xquisite/
git: https://git.xpub.nl/kamo/exquisite-branch
cover: unità cinofila.jpg
cover_alt: A yellow metal box for anti drug dog
---

## An exquisite branch

The [exquisite corpse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse) is a multiplayer game invented by the surrealists in which the participants compose a drawing or a story together. 

Traditionally the game is played on a long piece of paper, and each player draws a part, hiding the drawing to the next person, but leaving some hints. The following fellow continues to draw from there and so on. The result is a weird linear narrative, in which the transition between authors are at the same time smooth and abrupt.

With the xquisite branch I would like to try a digital approach to the game. If the original version is constrained to the single piece of paper and is doomed to be linear, here we can imagine our drawings forking and branching and go in different directions.

The process could be something like: 

someone send you a link to continue the drawing and when you are happy with it and upload it you receive a new link to share with others. If you pass the link to just one person the xquisite branch will continue, but if you pass it to several people the drawing will branch, resulting in multiple version with a common starting point.

I would like to try this not only as a multiplayer game, but also as a creative tool. I will ask [ser togni](https://www.togniser.com/) if he want to draw some comics with it. But it could also used for branching meetings aha 🤯 

## TODOs

- add name for credits?
- display name in svg?
- comment the code

- remove new from homepage?
or
- add per-new level in the xquisite branches (this makes more sense!)