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Malaria from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.

It doesn't get talked about enough, but This Discord Has Ghosts In It is a rad example of how you can adapt game design to your surroundings.

Basically, This Discord Has Ghosts In It is a digital larp. It's Phasmophobia played by chat. Your group creates a discord server to function as a haunted house, then you all explore it, building new 'rooms' out of channels as you go.

Some players take the roles of ghosts, and are muted but can affect the environment in the haunted house.

Other players take the roles of explorers, and can talk, but the ghosts are all listening.

Discord wasn't built to be gamified this way, but that doesn't matter.

As long as you can guarantee consistent behavior from a thing, you can build mechanics off of it.

Anything in your environment can be turned into a game.

And in this particular case, it's a really good one!

The mechanics lend themselves well to the kinds of pacing, limited communication, and untrustworthy setting that any good ghost story needs.

and they had this lovingly made totally not taunting message to leave about their virtual console legacy they’re destroying

Zombie Tramp hits the Bled Carpet with these drop dead GOREgeous looks.

Some of you might remember when I made a few guest covers for the Zombie Tramp comic.

Well, I’m excited to share that I illustrated a new guest cover for @Dan Mendoza’s ZOMBIE TRAMP #58 on Kickstarter!!