Beautifully simple and deep as anything! I really like the playing card determiner - much nicer than rolling a dice. The prompts are enough to guide you but not constrain. I am looking forward to exploring more with this. Thank you :-)
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That was speedy :-) Well my work ranges from a workers cooperative running an organic farm shop with www.harvestworkerscoop.org.uk to storywalks and farm exploring with www.organicarts.org.uk I have come to the conclusion that mostly everything is storytelling with a view to supporting healthy people and communities. Tomorrow we are off to sing to apple trees!! I am curious to see how it happens but the first Gathering Storm gameplay led so well from prompt to prompt there was a real logic to the evolving story. All of this is from an involvement in DnD way back in the 70s and a recent rediscovery of itch.io and the huge range of game styles and inspirations. I am always looking for where the game can link to my working practice. Thanks for asking :-)
This is a thought provoking game with a lot of depth. I work alongside regenerative farmers as part of a local food supply web and so the themes are very dear to me. The game play just works! I like the secrets, the splitting of the pack and most of all the map making and annotating. This makes more sense to me than a purely word based journalling and helps keep a game play focus. I really like the references and inspirations. These give Gathering Storm a very solid context. It is also so good to see gameplay sitting in alongside others arts at the Delfina Foundation. A quick note on the A5 spreads I am picking up stray text on the last page .. curious! Thank you very much for this David
I enjoyed this game much! I liked seeing the market take shape as I explored it with the descriptive prompts providing a strong sense of place and character whilst leaving space to storytell. I am trying picture mapping and annotating in the spaces as the cards are revealed. Works rather nicely! Thank you :-)
An intriguing first story! Great atmospheric set up - loved the card selection guides. Then day one saw the light hose keeper arrive in Autumn winds and treading the worn steps up to the light and a joker promptly shuffled the pack which meant that day two saw the storm emerging from the deep. Spectacular and most unexpected :-) Looking forward to the next story! Thank you!