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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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