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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
If you liked this podcast, check out the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter
176 episodes
Manage episode 501720918 series 2810583
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 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
If you liked this podcast, check out the weekly Indie RPG Newsletter
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