Interview with Lonely Cryptid Media on Affinity Games Recently we had the pleasure to have an interview with the folks at Lonely Cryptid Media, who sent us some wonderful questions over email that we as a collective then answered and discussed among ourselves. It was an enriching exercise for us as a collective in consensually … Read more
We’ve been challenging ourselves to do one game a month (including hacks/mods of existing games) and have had a prolific summer so far. Our newest project is The Transition Year, a hack of Avery Alder’s The Quiet Year, a map-drawing ttrpg game where you play the social forces in a small community after the collapse of … Read more
You can read our book chapter (the non-final, pub proof version minus some edits) Designing Dating Games: (Re)Designing the “Oldest Game,” about our design decisions and research around FoF: Friendship, FoF: Romance, and FoF: Sexuality.
We are opening up our design process and tools to the community so that you can use them to make your own conversation games based on our HAZMAT game system.
We made a game for IndieCade’s 2020 Climate Jam over on Itch.io! We wanted to share a bit about how we “jam,” because everyone does it their own way and it is different every time.
We try to include sleep. So should you.
Feedback is a prominent part of some of our games. Let’s look at the art of giving and receiving feedback.
