#xenolanguage

This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we chat with Kathryn Hymes of Thorny Games about Xenolanguage: A Game About First Contact. Thorny Games makes games about language (see the rather sublime Dialect for example) and their latest effort, currently on Kickstarter, draws inspiration from Arrival, Contact and "The Story of Your Life" to create an experience that is about first contact with an alien species, but also about learning to see the world differently.  Also, the game mechanic centers on a talking board! 

I spent the darkest days of the pandemic creating symbols for an alien language as part of the #xenolanguage project @thornygames. One of the things I love about painting digitally is being able to refine and render down to the pixel level. Swipe for details. (at Area 51, Roswell New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWVo_rqro1z/?utm_medium=tumblr

Terminals and nodes from the #xenolanguage project with @thornygames #aliens #networks #connection (at Roswell MM) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRhBGT9LIiC/?utm_medium=tumblr

Another symbol from an alien language for the #xenolanguage project by @thornygames #alien #sciencefiction #scifiart https://www.instagram.com/p/CRT4H1BLemZ/?utm_medium=tumblr

Another mysterious symbol for #xenolanguage from @thornygames (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPvhhnbnWG1/?utm_medium=tumblr

What are they trying to tell us? Another symbol from the #Xenolanguage project from @thornygames . . . #ufo #aliens #languages #games (at Roswell MM) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPQ19p9nSYu/?utm_medium=tumblr

Thorny Games, who brought us Dialect (the RPG about languages and the way they die), are kickstarting their next project, Xenolanguage, about first contact with an alien race.  They’ve reached their funding goal, but by golly I’m excited about this game and I am sure some of you will want to take a look at it as well. RPGs about language? *swooon*