The truth about Adam & His Friends

I've just been nominated for two awards and I'm very happy about it. It almost didn't happen though, and there's a quite interesting story in that.
The awards in questions are Fastaval's prestigious Ottos. As you may or may not know there's a certain procedure you have to follow if you want to contribute to Fastaval, presently the largest Danish roleplaying event.
Several months before anything you have to submit a concept description for consideration by game coordinators. I submitted two ideas and they chose the one I was slightly less enthusiastic about. Obviously.
It was a pitch for a short form game about a young boy who is getting to old for imaginary friends and therefore decides that he has to kill them. The players play the friends and the GM plays the part of young Adam.
Now I'm a true believer in 'meaningful' gaming so I started to research child psychology and theories about growing up and stuff. Very ...yawn.. interesting. It was so interesting in fact that in combination with other things it ended up almost killing the concept.
I sent the Fastaval scenario-coordinators a mail that I was quitting. "Look here, young man" my coordinator responded, or something to that effect. "You've signed on for this. It's supposed to be short. You must be able to come up with something!" And for that I'm very grateful to Kristoffer Rudkjær, for that's his name.
What I did was dropping the serious pretentions and take the idea back to its roots: a young boy and his imaginary friends. A melancholy comedy about childhood's end. As the nominations suggest it turned out OK. If there's point to this it's don't overthink it.
What I plan to do know is to get my hands on player and GM feed back from the games at Fastaval and incorporate their response into a new edition of the game. As soon as this is done "Adam & His Friends" will be available for download online. Probably in an combined English and Danish version...