Recently, I’ve been corresponding with the friendly and affable Pat Eyler, who reached out to me out of curiosity regarding my Brindlewood Bay hack, Something Tookish! (See here if you don’t know what I’m going on about here.) Anyway, Eyler interviewed me about the game, my background in gaming, and what I learned hacking the game together. Here’s the interview!
The other day, with a group of three other people, I got a chance to play Jordan Palmer’s “Our God is Dead,” which, as the game’s itch.io page explains, is “a comedy role-playing game about clerics hiding the fact that their god has died just before a celebration in their god’s honor.” Players play the clerics, but in the process of play, they build out not just the clerics but also the god, the community, and so on… while having to desperately struggle to prevent others from catching on to the horrible truth: that the deity they venerate is dead. …