SELVES
A downloadable game
Every stranger contains a life as rich, contradictory, ordinary, and meaningful as your own.
Selves is a one-page solo field journal RPG about people-watching. Find a café, train platform, waiting room, or park bench. Then, slow down. Through observation, imagination, and a pair of six-sided dice, practice seeing strangers with curiosity instead of certainty or dismissal.
Imagine truths about the lives unfolding around you. Every so often, you may discover that these selves reveal something about your own.
Over many sessions, your notebook becomes both a field journal of ordinary humanity and a collection of the lessons you've chosen to carry into your own life.
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Rolling doubles looks dangerous :o Great game, one must be careful though not to be caught staring! The only downside I noticed is that this font is quite difficult to read, have you thought about adding i.e. a plain text edition with some font that would be more legible?
Hi Kaja! This is fantastic feedback. I've created and added an Easy Read version. Please let me know if that is more legible for ya! It's still a whole lot of text for one page.
Oh yes, now it's easy to read - it wasn't about the text, but about the typewriter-like font, which is great, but I imagine some folks might appreciate the version where the characters are more distinguishable :)
What an elegant presentation! I love the idea, congratulations! Even though I like physical dice, I think using a mobile phone as digital support is an excellent choice for this kind of outdoor game. That makes you look less suspicious... haha!
Digital dice is a solid move here! I can just picture someone staring at me through a café window, rolling some dice and then looking up at me again. haha
I would think then that someone decides my fate in a cafe, watch out for some fighting music!