Anyway. If you want to better understand training, if you want to practice clicker timing, or if you want to play a fun game with erotic undertones, I highly, highly, highly recommend "the training game", which I will now describe here.
Ingredients:
- 0-1 Clicker. Not technically required, but ideal. Will be conditioned to be associated with positive feedback/praise from an audience.
- 2-8 Interested Participants. Ideally 4-6 in my experience. Much more than that and not everyone will be playing, but watching is very fun, too, so if you somehow have a large group, having a smaller group of participants and a larger audience works great.
- 1 Room To Play In. Ideally with stuff in it. Living rooms, bed rooms, office rooms, any kind of room works. Maybe even outside. Though, ideally also with an 'outside the room' that cannot hear what your group is saying inside the room.
- 30-120 Minutes of Time. You can play the training game for as long as you want or as short as you want. The more experienced you are and the more creative you are, the faster it'll go, also. First sessions are frequently quite slow moving.
To Play:
Step 1: One participant is selected to be the "animal", and another participant is selected to be the "trainer" and given the clicker.
Step 2: The animal leaves the room, and while they're not listening, the trainer and everyone else decides on a desired behavior.
Example Behaviors I've Seen or Done Before: "hug the blahaj", "sit exactly still for 30 seconds", "kiss two plushies together", "put a piece of trash in the trash can", "turn off the lights", "kneel in front of me", "twirl and then curtsy", "do a push-up", "throw a specific plush", "touch your nose to the bed", "take off your shirt".
Step 3: The animal is brought back to the room, and everyone (except the animal) is no longer allowed to speak. (laughter, groans, and non-volitional responses are permitted, but please no attempts to communicate by the audience.)
Step 4: The animal and the trainer will then cooperate to have the animal performed the desired behavior. The trainer will give clicks to indicate when the animal has done something correct, and the animal will have to figure out what it's supposed to do from this alone (usually as well as a bit of reading the audience).
Step 5: Once the desired behavior is performed, everyone congratulates the animal, and go back to step 1 and select a new animal, new trainer, and new behavior.
Additional Notes:
A lot of the time it's going to be a good idea to "reset the room" after the first few clicks with each new animal. This'll help that animal not get caught with the first thing it sees. To do this, put back everything it touched or moved around and have it return to the door.
Many of you are gonna be like "I wanna play but I only wanna be the animal" or "I wanna play but I only wanna be the trainer". No! Bad! This is a game about building empathy, about learning. Ideally, everyone should do every role. Maybe you won't equally enjoy every role. Maybe you'll want to talk with your fellow participants about what kinds of behaviors you are or aren't okay with. But please if you're going to play, play as both roles.
In general, talking through what kinds of tasks you're okay doing before starting is a good idea, and I highly recommend the trainer only okaying tasks that they have an idea of how to do.
And, yes, it was very embarrassing taking all my clothes off because my partner wanted me naked as revenge for me winning every single game of strip Danmaku!! but it was worth it because I achieved my task very, very quickly.
