Listen "Art, Death, & RPGs (w/ Elizabeth Little)"
Episode Synopsis
You can support this show on Patreon!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 BeckerMyth of SisyphusLabyrinths by Jose Luis BorgesDeimos 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 newsletterGames MentionedCall of CthulhuDelta GreenWorld of DarknessZephyr: An Anarchist Game of Fleeting IdentitiesYazeba’s Bed and BreakfastPaint the Town RedIf you liked this podcast, check out the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter
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