(I lost after failing to ambush with my last card, thinking my three cards with their deadly/shield combo were assured victory, only to have the uprising speak their true names and banish them all from the clash. What an evocative story-engine of a game.)

Nice! Vibrant, cute, love it.

What a powerful piece! Thank you so much.

aww that's so cool to hear! honestly this is gonna be on my mind a lot with any future designs I work on, it's condensed a lot of the ideas we gradually found along the way and added a lot more to chew on

That's awesome, congratulations! And it looks amazing already 💕

this manifesto has given me a lot to chew on!! thank you jay!

I'm really interested in continuing to work in the board game space on games about individuals in community, simulating the outside pressures placed on them and leaving them space to inhabit and create characters and stories that come out of that system.

I love when people lean into it and play a really fiery, strategic game of MH. but I also love when players invest in building the community, often to their own detriment, or have such a wildly good time they throw caution to the wind, gluttonously devouring all the joy they can before they all die.

MH presents win conditions that I have described elsewhere as a trap. the game asks you to engage in jealous rivalry over 'joy', or destroy a community to avoid your own death, or even to throw a tantrum and get your friends killed. all of this fuels a fiction that resembles historical records.

the abstraction in the final game is intentional, the gaps left to be filled, much as the historical record is full of gaping holes, waiting to be interpreted. it requires players to rub up against the system (and each other) to be brought to life.