Hey folks! If you're interested in seeing this played live, my friends and I recorded an actual play that you can see here.
Teeny tiny review: great prompts, excellent use of the art piece that inspired the game, and a nice compact package. But I'm a total sucker for fairies!! A perfect fit for us.
I have played several in person games of this with some young kids. They wanted to play as themselves and had fun going to the market and imagining the things they would find there. In the end all of them decided that they weren’t going to eat the faerie food. Though one of them definitely was more on the edge than the others! Thank you for a fun game for kids!
We had a good time creating our characters and guiding them through the 3 act structure towards their final choice. Our only complaint was that while we generated wonderful, whimsical and wistful anecdotes in response to the prompts in the two acts, they often ended up story orphans because there's nothing in the narrative structure that rewards or guides the players into call-backs. Our group consensus was the desire to have the answers to those prompts matter as you moved through the game, because we enjoyed coming up with them so much.
This is a cute, whimsical game that nevertheless packs a real punch if you let it. I ended up channeling a lot of my queer trauma into my characters; for a game centered around fairies, things got really real really fast... and yet, I never felt unsafe. You can read more of my thoughts on my blog.
Thank you so much for sharing! I had never thought of making an OpenDyslexic version of the games, but I will definitely look into doing that and try to get those up soon!
I had to put things on hold for a while, but I just added a dyslexia-friendly file, and hope to do the same with my other games soon. Thank you for bringing this to my attention!
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Hey folks! If you're interested in seeing this played live, my friends and I recorded an actual play that you can see here.
Teeny tiny review: great prompts, excellent use of the art piece that inspired the game, and a nice compact package. But I'm a total sucker for fairies!! A perfect fit for us.
I have played several in person games of this with some young kids. They wanted to play as themselves and had fun going to the market and imagining the things they would find there. In the end all of them decided that they weren’t going to eat the faerie food. Though one of them definitely was more on the edge than the others! Thank you for a fun game for kids!
We had a good time creating our characters and guiding them through the 3 act structure towards their final choice. Our only complaint was that while we generated wonderful, whimsical and wistful anecdotes in response to the prompts in the two acts, they often ended up story orphans because there's nothing in the narrative structure that rewards or guides the players into call-backs. Our group consensus was the desire to have the answers to those prompts matter as you moved through the game, because we enjoyed coming up with them so much.
This is a cute, whimsical game that nevertheless packs a real punch if you let it. I ended up channeling a lot of my queer trauma into my characters; for a game centered around fairies, things got really real really fast... and yet, I never felt unsafe. You can read more of my thoughts on my blog.
Thank you so much for sharing! I had never thought of making an OpenDyslexic version of the games, but I will definitely look into doing that and try to get those up soon!
I had to put things on hold for a while, but I just added a dyslexia-friendly file, and hope to do the same with my other games soon. Thank you for bringing this to my attention!