[UPDATED] Here are our WordPlay 2020 Games
The 8th annual WordPlay Festival takes place Saturday, November 21th & 22th 2020!
Sat. November 21th, Sunday November 22th
Hello everyone, we’re super excited to announce the games that we’re going to be showcasing this year for the 8th annual WordPlay! With games from all over the world we are looking forward to sharing them with you. This year, things are going to be a little different with us hosting everything on our Twitch channel. Just like last year, the festival will be running for 2 days, with talks and games both days! Games will be showcased a few ways depending on what works best for the game. So some will be live on Twitch, hosted on itch.io, or available for download. On the schedule, we’ll be making note of how they’ll be showcased, so you’ll be up to date for the festival!
Check them out below! We’re looking forward to the festival and hanging out virtually with you. Keep wearing your mask and washing your hands <3
Seb Pines (they/them)
An interactive short horror story about an urban legend, something that happened in my small town, maybe you’ve heard of it, maybe you haven’t.
Elizabeth LaPensée with Indian Land Tenure Foundation and the Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab at MSU
A point-and-click adventure game about the impact of colonization on Indigenous communities in the 1890’s.
Despite the magical catastrophe threatening the fabric of society, you must satisfy the customer in this solo table-top RPG!
We Are The Caretakers is a sci-fi squad management RPG where you protect endangered creatures in an Afro-futurist world.
The Indifferent Wonder of an Edible Place
The Indifferent Wonder of an Edible Place is a story about a municipal building eater, and ponders the violent cost and the profound grief of having to survive at the edge of despotism, when places of entangled heritage are being willfully effaced.
An interactive fiction about insomnia and late-night snacking.
Visigoths vs. Mall Goths is a tabletop roleplaying game and dating sim about the conflicts and romances among the warriors who sacked ancient Rome and 20th century spooky teens, set in a suburban Los Angeles shopping mall during 1996.
A visual novel about a girl and an alien drinking tea and falling in love!
A pig farmer decides he no longer wants to dispose of bodies for the mob, and discusses this decision with his would-be killer.
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A conversational card game where your deck represents your character and how well you’re able to communicate and connect with others in the world.
Us Lovely Corpses is a visual novel about a witch saving a friend who doesn’t seem to want to be saved.
Caleb Foss
Distant Transmission is a noisy collaborative radio show broadcast for a far-away friend.
Fuck up a perfectly good girl by helping her.
Commissioned Game Creators
Cale Bradbury (he/him)
Word World
Pitch: Word World is an exploratory text tool for fridge-magnet-esque audiovisual hyperpoetry, powered by our collective voices.
Sharang Biswas (he/him)
A stone-age deity must contend with how his neglect of his people has lead to ruin, and help guide a hero to glory. This game was begun at game writing class taught by Sande Chen for Playcrafting. The completion of this game has been commissioned by The Hand Eye Society.
Leann Sterling (she/her)
(1) New Message
Pitch: The game mimics a text conversation between the player and their toxic partner. Follow the course of their relationship through the messages they send each other. The player chooses what to text their partner, and their decisions will determine the outcome of the game.
Allison K. Cole (she/her) & Devon Lyddle (they/them)
Intersections
Pitch: A light hearted tabletop word game using Venn Diagrams to examine concepts in the world around us and how they overlap.
Jesse Gazic (he/they)
Sorry Simulator
Pitch: Sorry Simulator is a satirical look at the role apologies play in cancel culture. Will you find forgiveness or end up crushed under the feet of an online mob?
Scenario World
Brook Jensen (he/him) + Liam Gallager (he/him) + Sarah Green Fisher (she/her)
Elias has a problem: his taxes are coming due, and with the recent passing of his wife, he has no one to help him. Dina has a problem: her exam is next week, but her mom has sent her off to Orillia to help her Uncle with some paperwork. And the two haven’t seen each other since Dina was a little girl. Can these two get along, complete these tax forms, and maybe learn a thing or two along the way? Features an alternating point of view, music, and emotionally wrought, tax-filing gameplay!
