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Topics - Paul "Italo" Czege

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This year, Game Chef participants may design and submit games written in Italian. Here’s how it will work:
 
  • Design and write a game in Italian, following the announced guidelines and ingredient requirements. Submit it before the deadline along with everyone else, via the Game Chef blog.
  • At the peer-review stage, games submitted in Italian will be assigned for peer-review only to others who’ve also submitted games written in Italian. These participants will then post their reviews (in Italian) and recommend one of the games they’ve reviewed to go on to the finals.
  • Because the Italian-language community will almost certainly have fewer than twenty submissions, there probably won’t be a clear verdict for which games should go to the finals, just from peer recommendations. So the Italian-language games that receive the most recommendations will be read by Giulia Barbano and Mario Bolzoni, who will select 1-3 games for translation to English, based on what % of total submissions the Italian-language games represent.
  • These finalists will then be translated to English by Raffaele Manzo and will go up against the English-language finalists in the final judging.
As always, non-native speakers of English are certainly welcome to submit games written in English. This special opportunity for Italian speakers is really only possible because of the heroic volunteering of Raffaele Manzo, whose translation skills are quite formidable.
Paul

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Hello,

As the Narrattiva translation of My Life with Master nears release, I'd like to offer a bit of advice to Italian roleplayers, from my own experience, on having an enjoyable time with the game. When I designed My Life with Master my play style was characterized by fluid scenes involving multiple player characters, a natural enjoyment of roleplay and dialogue without any particular hurry to use the resolution mechanics, and no particular concern for equitible apportionment of screen time. The game was meant to be played this way.

To my great frustration, my play style has more recently become characterized by formalized stakes-setting, abrupt usage of resolution mechanics, and narration at the expense of roleplay. And I see lots of folks playing My Life with Master this way.

Perhaps once indie games started experimenting with turn-based play it was a slippery slope from using a game's resolution mechanics when called for by roleplaying to using the game's structure and mechanics to workshop a narrative; I'm not sure. But my advice to you is to resist trending to this when you play My Life with Master.

As gamemaster, don't frame scenes directly to an obvious conflict very often. Enjoy describing the location and the situation. Enjoy playing and characterizing the Master. Enjoy playing and characterizing the NPCs. Create scenes with more than one NPC in them (more than just the Master, more than just the Connection) when you can. It makes scenes more substantial. As player, enjoy inhabiting your minion. Enjoy developing him or her through play. Give yourselves some time to experience the scene and the characters before you bring things to a conflict. And don't negotiate conflict outcomes before you roll. Simply establish what the minion is trying to do before you roll, and then in keeping with the result of the roll, collaborate and roleplay an outcome.

If your play style is already changed to formalized workshopping, and narration trading, well, you'll have to wait for me to finish Acts of Evil. I'm designing it to train me back from the negotiated workshopping.

Sincerely,

Paul Czege

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