Your Pain & You
A downloadable game
Content Warnings: death, cancer, hospitalization, mental illness, anxiety, depression, Christianity
This zine is a collection of microgames I designed between the years 2018 and 2020, just before the start of COVID. These games mark my first proper experiments with using roleplaying design to process and talk about real-life experiences.
Like most microgames, these games focus on capturing a specific emotion or experience, using minimal mechanical design and giving lots of space for player input and expression.
I think of these games as a way to talk about the stuff that’s hard to talk about. As a designer, I genuinely believe in the ability of games to provide productive spaces where players can also find catharsis and understand themselves better, empowering them to live life more fully.
I hope you will benefit from reading and playing these games and that you yourself will be encouraged to use game design as a tool for your own betterment.
Games Included:
- Death of a Hero - funeral, grief, memory
- Alone With Your Ghost - anxiety, growth, grappling with the past
- Wet Cigarette - breaking up, honesty, moving on
- Southern Skies - family tensions
- This House - funeral, grief, memory
- I Am a Ghost - low self-esteem, depression, identity
Status | Released |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 total ratings) |
Author | babblegumsam |
Genre | Role Playing |
Tags | lyric, microgame, poc-made, Tabletop role-playing game |
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This is art.