Adept Play
Adept Play
Tag: Compact Stories
A customizable game in development by Ola Jansson.
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I anticipate a corpse count
Here’s our play experience with Ola’s Compact Stories, which is well-timed considering our recently-concluded season of Primetime Adventures. It’s a chance to perceive precisely what distinguishes his design, and for him to see what to dial down or to dial up inside it. It’s a continuation of the consulting seen in How “right now” turns…
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How “right now” turns into what happened
Ola Jansson has been working on his Compact Stories for a while, with plenty of playtesting and revision along the way. But it’s hit that point I’ve identified as critical, when the design questions and the presentation questions are bleeding into one another. With any luck I can put some of the work of the…