I heard about this from the episode on Yes, Indie'd. I have to say, I have been looking for a good PbtA/Story Game framework for telling stories across many different realities for a long time. There have been efforts that have come close, but this, oh this. :)
I'm curious about the floral cover designs for BtS, though. Does anyone know what the inspiration is for them?
It makes me think of the Voynich Manuscript.
I'm so glad you like it !! Really appreciate the comment.
The just released Exalted Funeral hardcover collections is even bigger, better, and more beautiful ; )
Re: the cover: It is a collage I made from the following:
Mary Vaux Walcott, Mountain Rose-Bay (Rhododendron catawbiense), 1932
Edme-François Jomard, ed., Zoologie Echinodermes, 1809
Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, Star Cluster in Hercules, 1882
(The new hardcover has the top two elements, but the Trouvelot starfield is replaced by a single color.)
Oh, thank you, Huffa!
I guess I was more curious as to why you chose flowers?
Maybe it's inherent in the text, I'm hoping to get the Hardcover soon (I'm in the UK so not sure what shipping is going to be like). Really, can't wait to give this a go. I have been musing about a multiverse setting for such a long time.
Oh that's a good question...Let's see...
It was really about the juxtaposition of the flower and the starfish, and the way that implied some kind of strange, new life through the simple act of laying one image over another. This resonated with my ideas about textual juxtapositions giving rise to new imaginings (I talk about this a bit in my Yes Indie'd interview.)
I also made that image within days of coming out and starting to transition (more than 2 years ago now), and this notion of blossoming into as-yet-unknown life, felt very personally important to me. As I talk about in the Preface to the hardcover, the game is really intertwined with, and emerged from, my first experiences of transition and queerness. That image capture those experiences for me.
