Hi Guys!
Big (for me) announcment!
Lavinia Fantini and me are working on Awful Things !
Awful Things is a game powered by the apocalypse where you are ordinary people trying to survive in the midst of a zombie apocalypse.
Beware, though: * this is not a horror/splatter game *.
The focus is on characters placed in a situation of total collapse of society. The zombies are just an “excuse”, the one that works best, to explore the following issues:
What are you willing to do to survive?
What difficult choices will you do?
Can you keep your humanity, or become a monster, not unlike those you fight?
What keeps you going, in spite of everything?
If you know The Walking Dead (TV series or comic, even if the inspiration was more the latter) then you know exactly what the game aims to create.
We are currently in the second phase of the design. The crunch is (mostly) solid, the second phase of playtests is starting now with Directors (aka MCs) the aren’t me or Lavinia.
Right now is italian only but an english translation is one of the biggest piorities, starting with the Roles (aka skins) with the clear intent of testing it also with an international group. Or a dozen of international groups.
Meguey Baker who already knows about the project 😉
Awesome.
serious question, because this sounds cool and i am interested: why not just use apocalypse world for this game? why hack it?
because the type of fiction we want this game to create is a lot different from the typical AW fiction. It’s a pretty heavy hack, as far I can judge and we did a lot of tweaking to get the right feeling.
Sub!!
What Paolo said 🙂 we want it to be focused on things that in AW are, at best, optional subthemes, not the main focus.
I had not the chanche to try it, but Paolo outlined it’s core rules while chatting at internoscon and it seemed veeery intriguing! lots of new ideas on how to hack the AW core rules! I’m looking forward to playtest it as soon as I have the time! (in a month or so).
moar hype! 🙂
Looking forward to hearing about this.
I tried it at InterNosCon 2013 and it was awesome. It’s not a case now I’m providing help with the second phase of playtest.
Very interested
Keep up the good work! Ottima idea ragazzi! 🙂