Oh man I just had the most ridiculous dream. I was playing a new one of those “LEGO (X)” games. I guess it was “LEGO City” but it was really “LEGO Millennial Life”.
First thing you’d do in a new zone is climb a building to build a cell tower, that’d let you use your smartphone to get tasks.
(Your smartphone was a 1x2 flat graphic tile, also there was a visual joke once where someone’s phone was the old handheld black walkie talkie
piece.)
You’d use an app to find dates, who would all turn out crazy in some funny way. You’d get jobs, like, you might have to build a cafe and then work there as a barista.
When
you’d completed all the tasks and built all the stuff in a zone it
would be fully gentrified and you couldn’t afford the rent so you’d move
on to the next one, that was a cute touch.
The “LEGO (X)” games are the most prominent use of pantomime in popular culture since movies got sound
It helps for pantomime and puppetry to use stories and idioms people know already, or at least some well of meaning lying outside the performance itself
Jolly Ship the Whiz-Bang had music and plus even if the plots were novel pirates are a familiar idiom
Or you can take the alienation effect and just run with it
