I wanted to hold a press conference at a beach, so I made this game. It’s really that simple.

In Beach Press Conference, you play a version of the press conference improv game you might have seen on Who’s Line Is It Anyway or practiced as comedy warm-up. Trading places, one person with give a semi-improvised press conference, others play the press pool awaiting their every word, and asking targeted questions.

Also there’s swimming.

Players: 2-20 players, 6ish best

Playtime: 30-45 minutes

Equipment: none needed, podium optional

Difficulty: Easy to learn and teach

The game was developed for the One Page TTRPG Jam of 2023, and is only one page, one sided. It’s recommended each player gives a short press conference, with players voting each few conferences if they should end the conferences and go JUMP IN THE WATER. Swim, chill out, and then hold a wacky journalistic LARP.

There isn’t much to explain about the game, it fits on a 8.5x11 page and is full color! Print it, gluepaper it beside the beach foot showers, bring it to your beachcombing detectorist meetup.

Beach Press Conference is a game to play on coastal walks, at volleyball tourneys, and for beachside picnics.

This game is free, if you enjoy it please give me a follow and spend the dollar you would've spent here on a beach cleanup organization!

It is themed around midcentury beach signage and culture, inspired by the set-dressing writing on Asteroid City and beach ephemera in Daytona Beach, Maui, Venice Beach, Chicago’s Hollywood Beach, Coney Island, and Cape Cod. 

Some press conferences YOU can lead on the beach include:

• Liam Nesson must keeping holding press conference or else his family explodes
• Pack of hungry seagulls gives press conference, demands the press pool throw French fries and grapes into its gaping maw.
• District attorney to argue Billy S. Threekidsinatrenchcoat should be tried as one defendant in upcoming double homicide trial.
• Musical theater major calls press conference to announce they don’t really want constant attention anymore
• Ira Glass is stuck in a loop of introducing This American Life episodes, calls conference of podcasting peers into press pool to pull him out of it.

More ideas are developed here