3 games about life is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter!

Featuring:

•  An entire life in seven scenes;

• Two witches meeting again after years apart;

• The whole of time and space within a game.

What is 3 games about life?

3 GAMES ABOUT LIFE is a collection of 3 diceless, GMless one-page TTRPGs about the passing of time, the addition of small details making up a life, and a focus on what keeps us going through bitter times. 

• In HERE & NOW, players explore the same place at different moments in its history, the same moment as it unfolds all around the planet, or a combination of both.
• In THE SEVENTH RAINBOW, players explore the whole life of a single protagonist in six summer scenes and an epilogue.
• In SHE TRAVELED, YOU STAYED / SHE STAYED, YOU TRAVELED, two players explore the relationship between two urban witches as they meet again after 30 years apart.

This project is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, as part of Zine Quest 2024, until February 29th

Features

3 games about life will be available both in digital and print formats, with a scheduled release window of May 2024.

The games are already fully written (by Côme Martin), laid out and illustrated (by Nicolas Folliot).

They will all be about two A4 pages long, with different layout and folding methods, and with the following mechanics:

• HERE & NOW is played with index cards which list the different moments and/or places players will wander through during the game, as well as tokens to make sure everyone has an equal place around the table.

• THE SEVENTH RAINBOW is mostly made of freeform narration: in each scene, players agree on a theme, divide the roles among themselves (the protagonist, secondary characters, the setting) and improvise what happens.

• SHE TRAVELED, YOU STAYED / SHE STAYED, YOU TRAVELED is a 2-player game; it features tables to create the two witches about to meet which will help players recreate a real-time conversation of two estranged friends.

Backers will also be able to purchase a printed or digital copy of any of my previous games: Green Dawn Mall, Two Summers, Meanwhile, in the Subway, Feathered Adventures or Broken Cities.

Team

Côme Martin — Lead writer and project creator. I have written dozens of short TTRPGs as well as 5 longer games which were all successfully financed between 2020 and 2023: Green Dawn Mall, Two Summers, Meanwhile, in the Subway, Feathered Adventures and Broken Cities.

Nicolas Folliot — Layout and illustrations. A professional layout artist, Nicolas is responsible for the layout of the French versions of Trophy and Brindlewood Bay, as well as the TTRPGs Sodalitas, Meanwhile, in the Subway and Feathered Adventures.