Variations on Your Body
A downloadable game
Finding girlhood through witchcraft and bravery through stray feathers. Reaching back to ancient magics and forward to alien encounters. This collection contains four games, loosely defined – each straddles the line between poetry, roleplay, self-help, and magical invitation. They’re all solo pervasive games, meant to be played in the margins of your life.
I’ve had a complicated relationship with my body. These four games draw on my life as a queer trans woman, as someone living with chronic pain and mental illness, and as someone healing through trauma. They together ask the question: what if escapism can help us to return to our body more whole?
In addition to the four games, I’ve included an essay titled “We’ve Been Stranger Things.” First presented at Probabilities 2014 in Calgary, it explores the importance of impossible ways of seeing ourselves.
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It’s great to see these games here!
I’ve bought my copy from the website, I was wondering if I could get it here too, please!
Absolutely! Can you email me at alder.avery@gmail.com so I can provide you with a download key? Cheers.
Thank you! I will!
Sent!
I've treasured this for Brave Sparrow and Good Bones for years - thank you!
Teen Witch is so incredibly good, I don't even have words. As is the rest of this collection.
brave sparrow changed me fundamentally when i first encountered it. still one of the most impactful and formative games ever made, and a vital precursor to the lyric game movement.
In my opinion, variations on your body is one of the most inspiring pieces of roleplaying game writing ever written. It's the first thing I suggest as required reading to anyone asking my opinion about writing a roleplaying game.