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Nice Games Jam: "Reravel: A Backwards Storytelling Game"

Episode 157 Published 6 years, 7 months ago
Description

This week, our boyfriend Dylan gave your nice hosts a prompt to create "a narrative game where the story is told backwards." This one is a slow burn, but it really cooks by the end!

With Stephen still away, Dale LaCroix (she of Evil Games Club and your nice social media manager) re-enters in the clubhouse to help create this week's game.

But Dale didn't just join your nice hosts for this week's jam. She also took the resulting game and made improvements once the recording stopped! Not only that, but she's going to keep working on it. It will be at Glitch's December Play/Test event if you want to play the latest version!

Our original rules are presented below, and Dale's "first revised edition" is presented below that...

Prompt
Make "a narrative game where the story is told backwards."
Game type
Tabletop game
Player count
2-4
Materials

END CARDS: 7 possible endings to your story

SETTING CARDS: Places the story could take place

PLOT CARDS: Events that might take place in your story

MAIN DECK: This is made up of several different types of cards:

Character Cards - Describes the occupation or description of people who will be in your story

Noun Cards - Describes items that will be in your story

Editor Notes - Special instructions from your editor, this might include directions such as this next scene takes place in a different setting, or that someone in your story is not who you think they are.

Setup

Deal the following:

  • One ‘Setting’ card. Deal face up and place it on top of the Setting deck.
  • Three 'Main Deck' Cards. Deal face up. These will be the Goal Cards; if there are any Editor Note cards, place these at the bottom of the main deck and re-deal so that there are three total Main Deck cards representing the Goal Cards.
  • One ‘The End’ card. Deal face up and place this on top of the Setting deck.
  • Four ‘Plot’ Cards. Deal face down. One will be revealed each round during rounds 2-5.
Rules

A photo of the prototype materials used during this episode.

ORIGINAL Rules

STEP ONE: Start with the END Scenario

We randomly selected by rolling a six-sided die, for the six END SCENARIOS:

  1. Death
  2. Getting off a plane
  3. A big hug / reunion
  4. The end of a weddi
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