Explore how to design meaningful, dynamic, and transformative tabletop roleplaying games with game designer Avery Alder!
This intensive will utilize hands-on design labs, play storming, personal reflection, and group discussion. Participants will leave with new project ideas, a repertoire of game design techniques and principles, and some hands-on design experience!
Avery Alder is a queer game designer residing on Treaty Six territory. Her work includes Monsterhearts, The Quiet Year, The Deep Forest, Dream Askew, Ribbon Drive, and a host of smaller, scrappier projects. She designs games that tug at the heartstrings, challenging the ways we look at relationships and community. She's been working in collaboration with Tatamagouche Centre to deliver workshops on games, empowerment, and self-discovery since 2017. Click here for Avery's website.
Josie Baker (She/her) is a community worker and facilitator from the island of Epikwitk in Mi'kma'ki. She is curious about the potential of roleplaying games and LARPS as tools for personal and social transformation. Since 2017 she has been creating community programs to engage queer and neurodivergent folks through games and gatherings. Josie is the Executive Director of PEERS Alliance, an evolution of PEI's only AIDS service organization. PEERS Alliance seeks to educate, engage, and support PEI residents to build healthier, inclusive communities and to end stigma surrounding sexual health and drug use using a trauma-informed approach. Her educational background is in adult education, community development, and gender. In her spare time she enjoys the land and water, gardening, speculative fiction, and being an auntie.
