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# A hat of prompts gave Arlo Howard 30 games in 30 days
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/a-hat-of-prompts-gave-arlo-howard-30-games-in-30-days/
- Published: 2026-09-10T19:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-11T00:10:13.000Z
- Description: Play-pril, a daily making ritual from the interactive theatre maker, became a workshop at The Big Thing in Llandudno on Sept. 10.
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: Arlo Howard, game design, workshops, immersive theater, tabletop, creativity, Festival, united kingdom, #radar-item

Arlo Howard led a workshop on Play-pril at [The Big Thing](https://immersivearts.uk/events/the-big-thing/?ref=killscreen.com) in Llandudno, Wales, on Sept. 10, 2026\. It was called [Taking Pressure off Process with Play](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcvoVnHF8Nl/?ref=killscreen.com).

Play-pril is a month-long game-making challenge. Each day in April, Howard draws a prompt from a hat and makes a game from it. Some prompts are Howard's own. Friends and other designers add the rest.

This year's prompts included a game that leaves marks on the skin, a game with house plants, a game without materials and a game with worms. Day 20 asked for a game for 100 or more players. Howard posted [all 30](https://www.instagram.com/p/DYy8H29vTae/?ref=killscreen.com) in May.

The workshop walked through that process, then had participants design a low-pressure practice of their own. Musicians play scales and visual artists keep sketchbooks. Howard's question is what game makers do instead.

Howard makes interactive theatre and games, and worked on *The Burnt City* with Punchdrunk. Killscreen [wrote about Punchdrunk's experiments with games](https://www.killscreen.com/punchdrunk-and-mits-sleep-no-more-sets-stage-theatre-videogame-crossovers/) in 2012\. The Big Thing is Immersive Arts' annual gathering. It ran Sept. 9 to 11.

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All 30 prompts from Play-pril 2026, and the card for the workshop at The Big Thing. Images: Arlo Howard, via Instagram

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