Small Monsters Games will be speaking at the Boston Festival of Indie Games’ 2018 FiG talks on January 20th at MIT Stata Center.
We’ll be presenting Casual Games & Memoir: Gamifying Personal Experiences. Our card game Takeout is based on my years living in China, and we’ll be talking about that, and about an upcoming game based on Harold’s experiences with horror storytelling.
How do you turn personal experience into a game for others to play and enjoy? Meg Stivison and Harold Sipe have explored this question for the last two years at Small Monster Games. In Takeout, they turned Meg’s expat experiences of Chinese language, culture and food into a casual card game. Harold has loved horror stories since he read his first Stephen King paperback. Can game mechanics express that love and share the experience of scary stories? How can personal experiences translate into accessible, inclusive game play? How do social games share a story?
We’re excited and honored to take part in this year’s FIG Talks!
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