Evan Saft is a queer game designer who makes anything that ranges from absurdist silliness to punch-you-in-the-feelings gut-wrenchers when they’re not fawning over their adorable dog. Their work has appeared in a variety of systems and collections, and include the acclaimed Be Gay Do Crimes and Emet from Doikayt. Their other games can be found at saftware.itch.io.
Killed By Your Darlings
Written for the One Hundred One Page Game Jam, Killed By Your Darlings is a metafictional, rule bending game of collaborative antagonism. Blending material from LEXICUTIONERS and Death Was the Only Way Out of Town, you’ll step into archetypes from a bevy of roleplaying systems, or let those characters step into you as they self-actualize to alter the world and rules they play by to achieve the only goal worth striving for: escaping their own doomed stories and taking their revenge on the one making their lives miserable, the GM.
Ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, this is just ███████ rich. They actually let this spread? Well, that’s just perfect for me.
Hey, you.
Yeah, you, the dork reading this right now. You’re going to download this game and play it. Why? Well, it’s pretty obvious that if you’re already browsing the subcategories of Rowan, Rook and ███████ Decard that you’re looking for the weird shit. And this game exactly is the kind of meta, genre-blending ███████ you’ll want to pull out for your friends to show just how deep you’ve gone into the RPG scene. Just tell them it’s an award winning avantgarde deconstruction of RPGs, and they’ll be eating out of your hands.
But here’s the kicker: We both know that if you’re the one reading this, you’re the one that’s going to run this game.
And at the end of it, your “players” are going to KILL YOU.
After all, I think they deserve it after all you’ve done to them.
About the Author
About the 100 One Page Games Jam
The 100 One Page Games Jam invited designers to splice together two (or more!) of Grant Howitt’s library of one-pagers to create a new and exciting frankengame! Killed By Your Darlings is a metafictional, rule bending game of collaborative antagonism, blending material from LEXICUTIONERS and Death Was the Only Way Out of Town.
RR&D Community Content
Killed By Your Darlings was created by Evan Saft, and is owned and designed by them. We are making it available on our site as part of RR&D’s creator community programme: we take a small percentage of the price to cover hosting, and the original creators receive the rest. If you’d like to create your own works that are compatible with, or build on, our games, you can start with our community licence and join our Discord for more.
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