Art, Death, & RPGs (w/ Elizabeth Little)

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Thomas M

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Do I like game design? Yes, indie'd! A podcast of bitesize interviews with indie tabletop roleplaying game creators about their work and game design theory & practice. Releases every two weeks.

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Do I like game design? Yes, indie'd! A podcast of bitesize interviews with indie tabletop roleplaying game creators about their work and game design theory & practice. Releases every two weeks.

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Art, Death, & RPGs (w/ Elizabeth Little)

Yes Indie'd Pod

1 hour 17 minutes 16 seconds

3 months ago

Art, Death, & RPGs (w/ Elizabeth Little)

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Today, I’m talking to Elizabeth Little. She’s a UK-based science teacher, artist, and game designer. She co-founded Shrike Studio in 2015 and released games such as Blight Seas Fleet, a dark fantasy naval skirmish game, for which she developed a whole range of 3D printable miniatures. This year, she released a demo of You Will Die In This Place, an RPG described as "a nihilistic dungeoncrawler about art, death and identity". It’s weird, meta, layered, and also very asymmetrical like a boardgame. We talk about its design and themes (everything is a labyrinth! relationships, games, mental illness!) and its crowdfunding campaign via GameFound's RPG Party later this year.

Crowdfunding link: gamefound.com/en/projects/shrike-studio/you-will-die-in-this-place

Itch.io link: https://liz-shrikestudio.itch.io/

Show Notes:

The Denial of Death by Ernst Becker

Myth of Sisyphus

Labyrinths by Jose Luis Borges

Deimos by Dragan Bibin (painting)

Toni R. Toivonen’s brass art

Watching from a Distance by Warning (doom metal album)

Essay about the game by the Split/Party newsletter

Games Mentioned

Call of Cthulhu

Delta Green

World of Darkness

Zephyr: An Anarchist Game of Fleeting Identities

Yazeba’s Bed and Breakfast

Paint the Town Red

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